HAWK PRESS 1974-83

I began printing in 1974, when I was one of a group of writers in Dunedin, New Zealand, who were looking for ways, and finding them, of publishing their own work and the work of others they respected. My first interest was in publishing, and the art of printing was an art I had barely heard about. The first press was an Arab treadle platen, the first type was 12pt Perpetua, and the first book was Ian Wedde’s wonderful poem Pathway to the Sea . The only photograph I have of the Arab treadle is this black and white, but the actual color of the press was bright red. All Hawk Press books are now out of print, but here is a full checklist of Hawk publications.

C H E C K L I S T

Ian Wedde, Pathway To The Sea, 1975
Stephen Oliver, Henwise, 1975
Alan Loney, dear Mondrian, 1976
Alan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, 1976
Graham Lindsay, Thousand-Eyed Eel, 1976
Robert Creeley, Hello, 1976
Rhys Pasley, Cafe Life & The Train, 1977
Pat White, Signposts , 1977 #
Russell Haley, On the Fault Line, 1977
David Miller, Appearance & Event, 1977
Anne Donovan, Daddy Am I So Fine, 1978
Joanna Margaret Paul, Imogen, 1978
Stephen Oliver, Autumn Songs, 1978 #
Murray Edmond/Janet Paul, Patchwork, 1978
Jeanette McCracken/Barry Cleavin, Surface Mail, 1979 #
J. C. Beaglehole, The Death of Captain Cook, 1979 #
Bob Orr, Poems For Moira, 1979
Martin Harrison, Truce, 1979
Bill Manhire/Andrew Drummond, Dawn/Water, 1979
Stephen Oliver, Letter to James K. Baxter, 1980 #
Ted Jenner, A Memorial Brass, 1980
Elizabeth Smither, The Sarah Train, 1980
Clive Faust, Metamorphosed From the Adjacent Cold, 1980 #
Michael Harlow, Nothing But Switzerland and Lemonade , 1980
Edgar Mansfield, 11.2.80 : On Creation, 1981
J. C. Beaglehole, The New Zealand Scholar, 1982
Marilynn Webb, Taste Before Eating, 1982 #
Alan Loney, Squeezing the Bones, 1983

# = books printed for other publishers

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