Publisher & Managing Editor
Nadia Szilvassy
Editors
Michael Helm, Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Rebecca Silver Slayter, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding
Contributing Editors
Robert Hass, Anne McLean,
Tara Quinn, Colm Tóibín
Assistant Editor/Circulation Manager
Laurie Graham
Public Relations Specialist
Liz Johnston
Design
Mark Byk
Interns
Allison LaSorda
Original Design
Gordon Robertson, Rick/Simon
Logos
David Bolduc
Copy Editor
Heather Sangster
Website Design
Mark Byk with Mike Stringer
Founders
Stan Dragland & Jean McKay
From The Incomplete Thombu
The Incomplete Thombu is an artist’s book project commissioned and published by Raking Leaves. Thombu, a word derived from the Greek tomos, from which the Latin tome, or large book, originates, was a term used by the Dutch to describe a public land registry. The Incomplete Thombu examines the subject of Tamil displacement during the civil conflict in Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2009. The attempt to register one document on top of another maps out further displacements between what is remembered, what has been taken away, and the stories left behind, in a conflict that has torn apart its land and its people for over thirty years.
