Red Square: the Next Word

2012

Special Collections PR9641 L6 R43 2012

St Malvern East, Victoria, Australia: Electio Editions

Alan Loney (b. 1940) printed his first book in New Zealand in 1971. A poet, printer and publisher, Loney worked at the Holloway Press at the University of Auckland before moving to Melbourne at the end of the 1990s. Loney’s works are significant in the development of the private press scene in both Australia and New Zealand, and Special Collections makes every effort to collect all his publications. In 2008, he was Printer-in-Residence at Otakou Press, University of Otago, when he printed Ruth Dallas’s Open Sky. Through his Melbourne imprint, Electio Editions, he printed Red Square: the Next Word. It was purchased by Special Collections in 2013.