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
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.
