2020 Summer Catalogue AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS ‘Leggott illuminates, Mezzaluna like a lightening Selected Poems flash, the delicacy and fragility of a world Michele Leggott made of poetry’ Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand David Eggleton NZ Listener Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott’s nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). ‘Leggott, one senses, In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, never stops “looking Leggott creates lush textured soundscapes. Her poetry covers a about”: always wide range of topics rich in details of her New Zealand life, full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal. listening, questioning, searching, peeling away Michele Leggott writes with tenderness and courage about the paradoxes of losing her sight and remaking the world in words. the layers of familiar to Mezzaluna brings together in one volume the work of this major see what lies beneath’ New Zealand poet. Sarah Quigley NZ Listener Michele Leggott was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007–2009 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. Her collections include Vanishing Points (2017), Heartland (2014) and Mirabile Dictu (2009), all published by Auckland University Press. She coordinates the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with colleagues at the University of Auckland, and has co-edited Alan Brunton’s selected poems, Beyond the Ohlala Mountains (Titus Books, 2014) with Martin Edmond. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 12 March 2020, 230 x 178 mm, 216 pages Paperback, $35 AUP New Poets 6 Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children’s lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. AUP New Poets 6 includes substantial selections from the poetry of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. Ben Kemp We move from Kemp’s slow-paced attentive readings of place and people, in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey’s fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even *poetry*, and finally to Chris Stewart’s visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time. AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry. Ben Kemp is a musician, writer and poet and works as a primary Vanessa Crofskey school teacher in Papua New Guinea. Vanessa Crofskey is a writer and artist of Hokkien-Chinese and Pākehā descent. Chris Stewart grew up in Christchurch and is a writer, a son, a brother, a husband, and a father. 12 March 2019, 224 x 164 mm, 114 pages Paperback, $24.99 Chris Stewart Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol. 2 1960–1987 ‘The best, most Peter Simpson beautiful art book of 2019 was Peter The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty- Simpson’s magnificent five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. study of Colin Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest McCahon, There is twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings Only One Direction; and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, Auckland University McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist Press brings out the idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon’s work has not been assessed as a whole for second volume, Is This thirty-five years. the Promised Land, In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible which will likely be the style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin best, most beautiful art McCahon’s birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator book of 2020.’ Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon’s work over the Steve Braunias artist’s entire forty-five-year career. Newsroom This will be the definitive work on New Zealand’s leading artist for many years to come. Peter Simpson is a former associate professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books including Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years, 1953–1959 (AUP, 2007) and Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933–1953 (AUP, 2016). He has also curated three significant exhibitions of McCahon’s work. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (non-fiction) in 2017. Also available in April 2020: 11 June 2020, 285 x 235 mm, 400 pages Hardback, $79.99 Colin McCahon Limited Slipcase Edition ($175) The Mirror Steamed Over Love and Pop in London, 1962 ‘With a special talent Anthony Byrt for zooming into a milieu, Byrt articulates In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three the wisdoms of extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art historical distance and literature: Barrie Bates (Billy Apple) an ambitious young graphic while transporting the designer from New Zealand. His friend and fellow student David Hockney – young, Northern and openly gay – was making his own reader into the local waves in the London art world. And in the middle of it all was the texture of a time and secretary of the Royal College’s Painting School – an aspiring young place .’ novelist called Ann Quin. Matt Saunders, Taking us back to London’s art scene in the late fifties and early Harvard University sixties, award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural history and tackles big questions: How did these three remarkable young outsiders change British culture? Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? What was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art? From the Royal College to Coney Island and Madison Avenue, encountering R. D. Laing and Norman Mailer, Shirley Clarke and Larry Rivers, The Mirror Steamed Over is a remarkable journey through a pivotal moment in contemporary culture. Anthony Byrt is one of New Zealand’s foremost writers on contemporary art, and a regular contributor to Artforum. In 2013, he was Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, and in 2015 was New Zealand’s Reviewer of the Year. His first book, This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art (Auckland University Press, 2016), was a finalist in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 11 June 2020, 234 x 156 mm, 312 pages Paperback with flaps, colour illustrations, $45 THE MIRROR STEAMED OVER THE MIRROR In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided THE to reshape contemporary art and literature. The untold story of how a group of young outsiders Barrie Bates (who would become BILLY APPLE in reinvented art in early sixties London. November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic ANTHONY BYRT is one of New Zealand’s designer from New Zealand, who transformed foremost writers on contemporary art, and a himself into one of Pop art’s pioneers. At the regular contributor to Artforum. 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