taken from the poem by Maya Angelou:

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

Specifications: 

The Buttercup notebook is thinner than my usual ones, i was product developing so wanted to keep initial costs down: Lined Sheets: 72 (144pp), Paper weight: 85gsm, Size: A5 (145 x 210mm) Portrait, 8mm thick

Lined A5 Book Block - Ivory paper made from 50% recycled fibres, 90 GSM, 210mm x 145mm, 112 pages – Portrait

Plain A5 Book Block - White recycled paper made from 50% flat white cups, 130GSM, 212mm x 155mm (untrimmed pages), 60 pages - Portrait

Lined A6 Book Block - Ivory paper made from 50% recycled fibres, 90 GSM, 90mm x 130mm, 96 pages - Portrait

Plain A6 Book Block - White recycled paper made from 50% flat white cups, 130 GSM, 107mm x 150mm, 60 pages - Portrait. 

All endpapers are sourced from incredibly talented designers and are not the work of Woodle Books. Marble papers and splatter papers are from Jemma Lewis marble papers, Other designs are from Lagom ,who have sourced and work closely with a wide range of amazing designers and artists like Hanna Werning, Caroline Dowsett, Cecilia Petterson and Noi Papers for most of the naked ladies dancing or eating donuts.