UNCLE SKALLYWAG by Shiv Mirabito, selected poems craft printed with handmade lokta paper in Nepal by Shivastan Press {Woodstock~Kathmandu}.
37 poems, lavishly illustrated with medieval alchemical art, bright red end sheets, a green ribbon to adjust your place, completely hand constructed with hand silkscreened hard covers.

Shiv Mirabito is a tantrik Buddhist-Hindu yogi, anthropologist, archivist, artist, photographer, publisher & poet who began writing as a teenager while living at Allen Ginsberg’s Cherry Valley poetry commune. He now divides his time between Woodstock NY, India & Nepal. His small press Shivastan Press {Woodstock~Kathmandu} is the only press that prints chapbooks & broadsides on handmade paper in Nepal. It was started in 1997 & is inspired by the famous Bardo Matrix Press of Ira Cohen & Angus Maclise which also published in Nepal & also the Hanuman Press series by Raymond Foye & Francesco Clemente which published in India.
Some of the iconic writers published by Shivastan Press include: Penny Arcade, Hakim Bey, Lee Ann Brown, Andy Clausen, Ira Cohen, Enid Dame, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Henri Ford, Hettie Jones, Robert Kelly, Tuli Kupferberg, Donald Lev, Louise Landes Levi, Eugenia Macer-Story, Hetty & Angus Maclise, Gerard Malanga, Judith Malina, Paul McMahon, Taylor Mead, Thurston Moore, Billy Name, India Radfar, Hanon Reznikov, Rene Ricard, Ed Sanders, Indra Tamang, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman, Peter Lamborn Wilson, etc., etc.
Shiv Mirabito also is the director of The Shivastan Poetry Ashram, which is a book shop, art gallery, fair trade gift shop & grassroots co-operative community center promoting poetry, friendship, wisdom & compassion for all beings located in central Woodstock NY.

We also sell Breathe by India Radfar and Welcome to Woodstock by Paul McMahon, from Shivastan Press, in store.

Xerox collages by Shiv are available in store as well. Please send an email or DM for more information.

Shivastan Press (Kathmandu- Woodstock), 2022

6.5” x 8.5”, hardcover

First edition of 500

74 pages