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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









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Beattie's Book Blog, February 2009
Further reviews

NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10591343








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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.
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