Edited by Katie
Kerr
On
the periphery of Aotearoa New Zealand’s publishing scene,
there is a rich and varied cottage industry of small press
publishers. They work in collaboration, in gaps between paid
gigs and with the support of like-minded peers: poets who
print, curators-cum-editors, self-publishing photographers,
and cross-disciplinary designers.
From this rich set
of makers come books that are inventive. Books that are
attentive and thoughtful. Books that are often genre-bending
and indeterminate. Books that are exquisitely designed.
Books that exist as beautiful objects, made to be admired
rather than mass-produced.
Despite the huge costs of
printing, and even bigger challenges of distribution,