Oriole Press is run by artist, designer & facilitator francis burger, and friends. It exists to make room for love letters from infatuated disciples, for books about books, and whip scorpions.

Oriole Press is named after the Black-Headed Oriole that frequents the pockets of broad-leaved endemics that hug the  north-facing (frost-sheltered) ridges of Johannesburg’s peri-urban neighbourhoods – the Oriole stays a little out of sight but pronounces itself through its loud whistles and imitations, and its distinctive ‘liquid-sounding warble’ (a perfect description via wikipedia and a recording of the call below, the warble is about mid-way).

   

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