Type High, Autumn 2020
|
Further reviews
Jack Ross https://madbookcollection.blogspot.com/2009/03/acquisitions-37-tara-mcleod.html Lynn Freeman https://www.rnz.co.nz/stories/2018742593/tara-mcleod-a-typographic-journey Art New Zealand Number 174 Winter 2020, p93-94 "It is a book to return to; within its covers is a unique mix of craft, skill and art that lets you enjoy, anxiety free, the shift of letters and words from graphical form to semiotics and back again." – Don Abbott The Shed Issue 92 September-October 2020, p106 "a handsome book celebrating the considerable skill, finesse and mastery of typography…" – Sarah Beresford Design Assembly https://designassembly.org.nz/2020/07/14/book-love-a-typographic-journey/ "…A Typographic Journey book gives great context to the development of design in Aotearoa and it is full of inspiration, insight and delight." – Nicole Arnett Phillips Codex Foundation |
Beattie's Book Blog, February 2009
|
Further reviews
NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10591343 |
|
Otago Daily Times
PORT MANIFOLD Rob Allan Katsura Rob Allan, another Port Chalmers identity, produced his critically acclaimed collection Karitane Postcards some time ago. He has lived in Dunedin since 1960. Port Manifold is composed of chapbooks: Rock and Word, Harbour, Port and Black Phoenix; each less than 50 pages, each with its roots firmly in Dunedin. Black Phoenix is a chapbook with a modern feel: Jack's vinyl record collection, Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain", a version of the gypsy, Rodrigo's, "Concierto De Aranjuez." A soundtrack of winter in Lawrence in a cottage of possums, bees, honey smells in the walls, the garden making way through weatherboards, twining nasturtium, a steaming kettle on the Shacklock range, and in the night dark room, the warmth of an Andalusian sun. Allan uses compressed language with layers of allusion. This is poetry full of vigour, energy with references and links to our local past. |