Alan Loney was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1940 and now resides in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His first book of poetry, The Bare Remembrance, was published in 1971 by Trevor Reeves’ Caveman Press in Dunedin. Alan handset the type, and as he recounts here ‘At the beginning, then, of my association with printing, was a collaborative process.’ His second book of poetry, dear Mondrian, was the third book published from his own Hawk Press and was co-winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1976. Alan concluded the Hawk Press in 1983 with his remarkable Squeezing the Bones in a limited edition of 15 copies. He then edited Parallax: A Journal of Postmodern Literature and Art in 1983/84 before resuming fine printing and publishing 6 limited edition books under the Black Light Press imprint between 1987 and 1992. In 1992 he was appointed Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland, and subsequently edited A Brief Description of the Whole World, between 1995 and 1998. He co-convened with Peter Hughes the Conference on the History of the Book in New Zealand at the University of Auckland in 1995, which led to his co-editing with Penny Griffiths and Peter Hughes, A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand, published by Auckland University Press in 2000. He became printer at The Holloway Press at the University of Auckland in 1994, before moving to Melbourne in 1998. He established his fourth imprint, Electio Editions, in 2004, printing and publishing a further 18 books to 2014. In 2008, he was Printer-in-Residence at the University of Otago’s Otakou Press and received literary awards on both sides of the Tasman, with the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry in 2011 and the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for his 13th book of poetry, Crankhandle, Notebooks 2010–2012. The diversity of his practices and the breadth of his affiliated communities of practice in New Zealand, Australia and the United States are intertwined in a specific print culture network which both regards and questions conventions, and seeks to reflect upon, explore and expand both the tangible and intangible cultural heritage and contribution of the book. His contribution remains, as American poet Robert Creeley so keenly observed in 1975, one of ‘continuing provocative wonder’.

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