Contributors are listed as:[3] At school in Birmingham in 1928, Roy Lewis was introduced to the possibilities of letterpress magazine publishing and bought his first printing press shortly after.
"[5] It was not until the late 1950s that Lewis began printing again, when he decided to demonstrate the craft to daughters Elizabeth and Miranda, using material produced by them.
In 1976 he went to night school in order to learn monotype and so was able to produce the ambitious large work represented by Poetry and Paradox.
The artist Daphne Lord provided drawings which Julius Stafford-Baker of Happy Dragons then made into lino cuts.
A special process was used to create silhouettes by blowing aerosol paint through the stencils in five colours, including gold and silver metallics.
Looking over Lowbury's manuscripts while on a visit, Lewis noticed two or three poems about the city and persuaded him to write more to form the collection Birmingham!
[6] Even before that, however, Lewis had printed Cannon Hill Park (1969) about another city location, in this case consisting of three ballads with music and design by Don Collis.
Yet one more Birmingham connection surfaces in Robert Leach's Cats Free and Familiar (1974), whose author had been Head of English at Great Barr Comprehensive School and was then on the way to make a local name for himself in theatre.
Roy Lewis left his printing equipment and metal type to Julius Stafford-Baker of the Happy Dragons' Press, a friend and printer who had assisted with a number of the Keepsake Poems.