Last year, a group of island poets — Randy Barnes, Annie Brulé, Cal Kinnear, Susan Lynch and Jennifer Lynch — got together to create a plan for printing small collections of broadside poems.

This month, the group that calls itself The Isolati — for islanders and solitaries — released its first portfolio, “Vestige.”

The collection includes poetry by the Isolati, plus poems by guest poets Lonny Kaneko, Thomas Pruiksma, Ann Spiers and the late David Lloyd Whited.

The group’s spokesperson, Cal Kinnear, said “Vestige” refers to “what we leave behind of our lives in the poetic spirit of words.” The title page of the collection, a limited edition of 100 copies printed at the Taurolog Stables on Vashon, includes the quote by Gustaf Sobin from which the poets took the title:

“Here, the word — as a stand-in for something other than itself — is finally understood to be an index of exile, a vestige or relic of original being.” “Vestige” is sold at Vashon Bookshop and online at OutriderBookGallery.com.