The third print contains the poem Riverhurst 3 by Birk Sproxton, whose untimely death in March 2007 was a great loss to the Canadian writing community, and to our project. Birk taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over thirty years while writing and publishing numerous books of poetry and prose.

The plates used for these prints are industrial grade copper, approximately 18 x 13 inches. The text for the poems was screenprinted onto the plates using sugar lift ground, and the plates were deeply bitten in ferric chloride to ensure that whatever else happened with the plates, the text elements would be well established! The imagery beyond that was mostly a combination of soft ground elements bitten directly into the plates, and photo-based elements which were screenprinted with sugar lift, then aquatinted with rosin. Once the plates were ready for editionning, they were steel faced at New Leaf Press on Granville Island, Vancouver.