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is an independent publishing initiative dedicated to the intersection of poetry and typography.
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12 the line
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Author: Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2025
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
12 the line
pealkirjake

Author: Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2025
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
11 radical runosong
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Author: Vaim Sarv, Anne Türnpu, Andreas Kalkun, Janika Oras

This book is about land and kin, dispossession and desire, solidarity and silence. It is a critical celebration of the oral tradition of runosong, a style of singing which has been practiced for centuries by Baltic Finnic peoples on the land now called Estonia and elsewhere. Featuring conversations with singers and folklorists Anne Türnpu, Andreas Kalkun, and Janika Oras, the compiled texts enact a fugitive search for historical consciousness by drawing upon the wealth of alternative vocal and somatic practices embedded in runosong. Working against the grain of Estonian nationalism and its Eurocentric tendencies, this involves mapping and resisting the ways in which divergent bodies, selves, and forms of physical sociality have been disci­plined through the interplay of brutality and privilege inherent to modernization. The book is a provocation, but one born out of love and a sense of obligation to the ancestors.

110x180mm, offset, 2025
Edition of 300 copies, €15 (info@opapublishing.com)
10 two stacks
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Author: Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
09 in lifes perfect harmony
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A poem on the distinction of words and images.
Author: Ott Kagovere.

297x105mm, 4pp, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
08 just shut the fuck up
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Inner monologue.
Author: Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
07 time for love
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Author: Ott Kagovere.
A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
06 are you happy
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A dialogue on happiness.
Author: Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
05 the face
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A dialogue on faces.
Author: Ott Kagovere. Thank you Simon Baker, Aaro Veiderpass

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
04 a year-long scream
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A collection of poetry by Maria Kapajeva. She started writing the book on February 24, 2022 – the day the full-scale war in Ukraine began. The book is written in a personal style and deals with themes of identity, collective and individual responsibility and guilt, language and belonging, feminism, and the stories of some of the Ukrainian refugees that the author encountered during the year. The book is published in three languages: Estonian, English and Russian.

graphic design: Kersti Heile, 110x160mm, offset print, 2024
edition of 200 copies, 15€ (info@opapublishing.com)
03 if you could help me with this translation
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A graphic poem in the form of a monologue.
Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
edition of 200 copies, 5€ (info@opapublishing.com)
02 on the graphic nature of poetry
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Some thoughts on the graphic nature of poetry.
Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A3/A5, riso printed, 2024
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
01 siirete hunnikud
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A collection of poetry in four parts: 1. descriptions of the interior of a person; 2. love poetry; 3. introspections; 4. on writing.
Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A4, 28 pages, riso printed, 2024
edition of 60 copies, 10€ (info@opapublishing.com)
 

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0.01 private thoughts & dialogues
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A collection of eight poems that very loosely through personal reflections talk about the dualistic nature of typography: a) it’s urge to behave as language or an invisible thought and b) it’s will to stand up as an image and make itself visible. Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A4, 34 pages, ringbound, riso printed, 2023
Edition of 50 books (sold out)
0.02 see them as your lover
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A reflection on the differences of reading and seeing. Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A4, 4 pages, riso printed, 2023
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
0.03 untitled (a dialogue on Vivier and Coe)
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A dialogue on Claude Vivier and Christopher Coe. The text is intended to be read linearly over two columns. Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A3, riso printed, available in two versions (red and black), 2023
Edition of 100 copies, €5 (info@opapublishing.com)
0.04 a love song to a stranger
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A3 booklet consisting of two folded A1 posters. The poem on the posters makes use of small images as punctuation marks.
Written and designed by Ott Kagovere.

A3 / 2 x A1, offset print, metallic PMS, 2020.
Edition of 100 copies, 10€ (info@opapublishing.com)
OPA! Tallinn, Estonia