Preparatory drawing to one of the twelve etchings in Paula’s suite inspired by Yves Bonnefoy’s ‘Curved Planks’. Created and gifted to me on my birthday 6 September 2008. The etchings were made at Paupers Press in Hoxton, one of several etchers Paula collaborated with after she and Paul Coldwell mutually agreed to stop working together. The texts were printed in Paris on February 23, 2009, and published byFrançois Bénichou Editions with six of the twelve etchings. I introduced Paula to Yvesin 1996. This collaboration between Paula and the author of the text, Yves Bonnefoy, finally fulfilled an ambition of mine, namely that the most important writer in my life and the most important artist in my life should come face to face in a common endeavour. And I was doubly present, as chief model and as translator in the bilingual text. In fact, there are three texts: the first had been previously published and the publisher asked Bonnefoy for a second one, which is a very beautiful letter directly addressed to Paula. A few years later, I asked the poet for a post-script which I published in a collection of texts by friends as an 80th birthday homage to Paula.