Weather is a collaboration between the author Colm Toibin and the artist Antony Gormley. Is it a short story illustrated by drawings, or a set of drawings enhanced by words? Perhaps it’s both or neither. I tend to think of it as two independent meditations on the experience of weather, one (Gormley’s) from the north Norfolk coastline, and the other (Toibin’s) from Ireland’s east coast.

Weather is a beautiful artifact, and a tribute to the arts of printing and book production. It is published in a regular edition and in a de luxe version by Enitharmon Editions. I had the pleasure of working nearly forty years ago with its founder, Stephen Stuart-Smith. Anyone interested in beautiful editions or artists’ books should take a look at Enitharmon’s catalog.