Other Diatom Press goodness
View our miscellaneous collection of odds and ends. The Poetry in Print series, an actual Diatom print, New Zealand native seaweeds and fish and a few cards.


Linocut print of the New Zealand native seaweed, Sargassum sinclairii.
S. sinclirii is the most common Sargassum in New Zealand. Sargassums look beautiful with their serrated leaf-like blades and, as with this species, small and large blades often appearing on the same thallus (algae equivalent of plant).
Part of my Fucales of New Zealand series, this linocut print has been produced in a limited edition of 30. Each print is signed, numbered and is on trimmed A3 kraft paper (420 x 296 mm).

Linocut image of the growing tip of Macrocystis pyrifera, the world's largest living seaweed. Limited edition, signed and numbered and on trimmed A3 kraft paper - 400x280mm.
Original print of New Zealand writer Maria McMillan’s poem ‘I finally fixed your puncture and took you for a bike ride’. Printed with metal type using an Adana 8x5 platen press. Red and black ink on 120 gsm, acid free Fabriano Accademia paper. 255x300mm. Limited edition of 20, numbered and signed on reverse of print.
Letterpress and linocut. Print by Joe Buchanan and words by NZ poet Maria McMillan. Send it to a friend or hang it on your wall. Printed on acid free colourfield 240 gsm cream card. 210x148mm.
The full original set of five Poetry & Print prints from Diatom Press. All prints feature words by Maria McMillan. Two blank letterpress greeting cards and three prints feature Joe Buchanan's exquisite illustrations of mountains, sea and a ship. They will look beautiful on your wall or keep them in stock when you want to send something special to a friend.
All three illustrated Poetry & Print prints. Lovingly created by Joe Buchanan using letterpress and linocut with words by Maria McMillan. Three miniature works of art that look beautiful together. Each print is 210x148mm.
Featuring original letterpress This is the miracle is both a greeting card and a small work of art. At 210x148mm (A5), and printed on acid free, high quality paper you can easily send this card to a friend or you may just want to keep it to make a boring wall far more interesting.
Letterpress Christmas card. Text is in red and reads “Have a small, quiet, but strangely satisfying Christmas”. A single green star decoration appears above and below the text. A5 when folded-210x148mm. Text is set in Old English.