Open Sky, was printed by Alan Loney in the Otakou Press Room as part of the 2008 Printer-in-Residence programme. Bound by the University of Otago Library Bindery, it is quarter-bound in bright yellow buckram (in this case, a woven coated book cloth) with blue cloth-covered boards. The front cover title is blocked in silver. The University of Otago Library Bindery was established in 1952 and was initially located in the basement of the Geology Department, near the Clocktower building. It is now situated at 109 Leith Street, where three qualified binders and three bindery assistants are employed.]]> Ruth Dallas]]>
Ruth Dallas (Ruth Mumford) moved to Dunedin from Invercargill in 1954. She first met Charles Brasch in 1949, and continued to develop her professional and personal relationship with him when she worked on Landfall in the 1960s as his editorial assistant. Dallas was accepted as Burns Fellow in 1968, and had been publishing poetry for twenty years. In her own words, from Curved Horizon (1991), she outlines her writing process: ‘I found my best pattern was to mull over my plans at home in solitude in the first part of the morning, sketch a draft and take that to the Burns Room, the typewriter and the unlimited paper.’ The Children of the Bush, based on her mother’s childhood experiences, was just one of the works that resulted from Dallas’s Burns year.]]>
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