Rick Amor, illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Cobargo, New South Wales, Croft Press, 1990. Reproduced with kind permission of Rick Amor.

Edgar Allen Poe’s popular gothic poem The Raven continues to invite interpretation by artists around the world, 172 years since it was first published in 1845. Melbourne artist Rick Amor’s atmospheric woodcuts suggest the popular identification of the author with the poem’s fictional narrator, whose features are clearly based on those of Poe. Amor’s work was published in an edition of 100, including ten bound in leather with six loose additional prints.