THE HOLLOWAY PRESS 1994 – resigned 1998

Black Light closed down when I went to Auckland to become the Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland for 1992. I had barely arrived however before Ron Holloway of the Griffin Press (in his mid 80s) asked me if the University might accept his printery and his archives as a gift so they would not be dispersed at his death. The University did, after some persuasion, agree, and the Holloway Press was born, its first book by the great poet Allen Curnow in 1994. I resigned from the Holloway Press in late 1998 and went to live in Australia, but the Press is still in operation, and very lucky to have Tara McLeod as its printer, while Peter Simpson is still its able director. Most of the books I printed at Holloway are still in print, and here is the checklist of books I made there.

For information on current Holloway publications, see www.hollowaypress.auckland.ac.nz

C H E C K L I S T

Allen Curnow, Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water, 1994
Robin Hyde/Michele Leggott, The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, 1995
Kendrick Smithyman, Tomarata, 1996
Helen Shaw, Leda’s Daughter, 1996
Helen Shaw/Vanya Lowry, On a Dark Mirror, 1996
Wystan Curnow, Castor Bay, 1996
Leo Bensemann, Fantastica, 1997
Ted Jenner/John Reynolds, The Love Songs of Ibykos, 1997
Annie & Harold Beauchamp/Caroline Williams, A Shipboard Diary, 1998
Robert Creeley/Max Gimblett, The Dogs of Auckland, 1998

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Press founders Alan Loney and Peter Simpson