29-452: Caxton Press may refer to: Caxton Press (New Zealand) Caxton Press (United Kingdom) Caxton Press (United States) See also [ edit ] Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Caxton Press . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
58-553: A brown paper cover, printed in two colours (and four colours from 1979 onwards). 800 copies of the first issue were printed, and Brasch later said they sold out "almost at once". An early review by Oliver Duff in the New Zealand Listener was positive but predicted that the magazine would last no more than a year. Landfall was New Zealand's leading literary journal during Brasch's editorship, and significantly important to New Zealand's emerging literary culture in
87-414: A collection of poems from Tomorrow magazine. In 1937 they acquired more professional premises and a better printer, and Leo Bensemann joined as a partner in the business. His work Fantastica: Thirteen Drawings was published in 1937 and was their most expensive and complex publication so far. They also began to print longer prose works such as works by Frank Sargeson and M. H. Holcroft . During
116-402: A competing journal called Islands , and some of Landfall' s key contributors such as Brasch, Curnow and Stead switched their allegiance to this new journal; Landfall did not recover its status as the leading literary journal of New Zealand until the editorship of David Dowling in the early 1980s. Bensemann, who had been involved on the production side since 1947, took over as editor for
145-481: A partnership between Denis Glover and John Drew. The press printed the work of many New Zealand writers who have since become familiar names in New Zealand literature, and from 1947 to 1992 was the printer of Landfall , New Zealand's longest-running literary journal. As of 2023 the press is focussed on commercial printing. In 1932 Denis Glover and a group of fellow University of Canterbury students created
174-442: Is published biannually by Otago University Press . As of 2020, it consists of a paperback publication of about 200 pages. The website Landfall Review Online also publishes new literary reviews monthly. The magazine features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama, and dance. Landfall was founded and first edited by New Zealand poet Charles Brasch . It
203-453: The 1950s and 1960s. The journal also had pages dedicated to coverage of the arts in general and public affairs. Brasch devoted himself to editing the journal on a full-time basis, and applied high and exacting standards to the work published. At times, Brasch's high standards led to friction, with some young writers resenting what they saw as his inflexibility and solemnity, and calling the journal elitist. He did, however, encourage and promote
232-643: The Caxton Club Press as a commercial printer and publisher. They acquired a larger machine-run printing press and established themselves in unused stables in Christchurch 's central city. They published poems and pamphlets by Curnow, Glover and Fairburn, and also took on commercial printing jobs. In 1936 the name was shortened to the Caxton Press, and they published works by Mason, Glover, Curnow, Ursula Bethell and D'Arcy Cresswell , as well as
261-682: The Caxton Club. It was partly inspired by a desire at the height of the depression to help create an identity for the political left. The club acquired a hand-run printing press and produced the short-lived magazines Oriflamme (banned by the university for its radical content) and Sirocco . The club also published an anthology of poems titled New Poems in July 1934, which included works by Glover, Charles Brasch , Allen Curnow , A. R. D. Fairburn and R. A. K. Mason . After graduating from university, in 1935 Glover and partner John Drew established
290-545: The World War II, Glover served in the navy but publications continued, including Beyond the Palisade , the first book by James K. Baxter (1944) who was then eighteen. After Glover's return, Caxton's publications continued including notably two anthologies in 1945: A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923–45 (edited by Curnow) and Speaking for Ourselves (a collection of short stories edited by Sargeson). From 1947 to 1992
319-552: The ambition of publishing "a substantial literary journal" in New Zealand for at least 15 years. The title Landfall was likely to have been inspired by Landfall in Unknown Seas , a poem written by Allen Curnow in 1942 and set to music by his friend Douglas Lilburn in 1944. The poem records the arrival of the first Europeans in New Zealand. It is one of the best-known of all New Zealand poems. Tom Weston noted in 1985 that in its early years, "Landfall in Unknown Seas"
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#1732798372953348-497: The anthology Landfall Country: Work from Landfall 1947–1961 was published, which was the longest work ever published by Caxton. In 1978 the press was sold to Bascands, another Christchurch-based printing company. During the 1980s it published the Caxton Press New Poets series, edited by Michael Harlow . A anthology of New Zealand poetry, edited by Mark Williams , was published in 1987 to mark fifty years since
377-487: The competition of other literary magazines such as Islands and AND . In issue 160, published in December 1986, the magazine announced that its editorial structure would be moving to an editorial board of five editors with equal status, each responsible for a different section of the magazine. The issue's editorial explained that Landfall had to address different expectations of its readers and fast-pace developments. It
406-513: The editorial section written by Brasch himself. Brasch left the magazine in 1966 and chose the young editor of magazine Mate , Robin Dudding , to succeed him. Dudding's noteworthy achievements were to commission artists to illustrate short stories, and to publish issue number 100, which included a lengthy interview with Brasch. In 1971, however, Dudding was dismissed by Caxton Press, reportedly for failing to deliver an issue on time. He set up
435-400: The founding of the press. In March 2015, the press moved out of the central city of Christchurch and into the suburb of Wigram , following damage to their central city premises in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake . Notable poets and authors published by Caxton press have included: Landfall (journal) Landfall is New Zealand's oldest extant literary magazine . The magazine
464-592: The fourteen issues from 1971 to 1975. Although he struggled to keep literary standards high due to the loss of key writers to Islands , he improved visual standards; the number of illustration pages increased from four pages to eight and featured a number of notable New Zealand artists such as Don Peebles and Pat Hanly . Bensemann's successor, Peter Smart , was an English teacher who was keen to encourage beginner writers and to publish work that deserved encouragement, with mixed results. Issue 129, released in March 1979,
493-486: The highest standard". Denis Glover , of Caxton Press , visited Brasch in London while on leave from naval service during World War II , and it was then the two "discussed the idea for a new, professionally produced literary journal in New Zealand". Other periodicals in existence at that time were smaller and irregularly published, such as Book , edited by Anton Vogt , and also published by Caxton Press. Brasch had held
522-466: The likely audience as the educated public: "Everyone for whom literature and the arts are a necessity of life." Virtually all prominent writers in New Zealand at that time were published in Landfall ; Janet Frame wrote in her autobiography An Angel At My Table that her early impression of the magazine was that "if you didn't appear in Landfall then you could scarcely call yourself a writer". At
551-435: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caxton_Press&oldid=932750548 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Caxton Press (New Zealand) Caxton Press is a printing company founded in 1935 in
580-658: The magazine was not especially innovative although it "still publishes some important work". On another occasion Weston noted that the magazine, then nearing four decades of publication, had "faded into the doldrums of (near) middle age". He attributed this to New Zealand's small literary audience and the need to attract as wide a readership as possible. Commenting on the magazine's development in The Press in 1986, Weston revisited his earlier reviews and felt that Landfall had transformed since 1984 into something more "vibrant, attentive and engaging". He attributed this in part to
609-796: The peak of the magazine's popularity, in the early 1960s, around 1600 copies were being printed of each issue. Brasch recalled that the peak sales figure was 2000 copies for an issue published in his last year of editing the paper, despite almost no advertising. In 1962, Brasch published Landfall Country: Work from Landfall, 1947–61 , an anthology of works published in Landfall . Writers and poets featured included Maurice Gee , Frank Sargeson , C.K. Stead , Ruth Dallas , Curnow, James K. Baxter and Fleur Adcock , and there were reproductions of paintings, sculptures and photographs by various New Zealand artists including Colin McCahon , Evelyn Page and others. It also included twenty-nine pages of selections from
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#1732798372953638-544: The press printed Landfall , New Zealand's longest-running literary magazine, which was subsequently taken over by Otago University Press . In 1951 the press moved again to a new building in Victoria Street, Christchurch , and Glover was dismissed from the press due to problems caused by his alcoholism. Thereafter the press published more commercial and less literary work, although did continue publishing works by Brasch, Sargeson, Ruth Dallas and others. In 1962
667-415: The work of new writers in whom he saw promise. Brasch ensured that the journal not only published poems, short stories and reviews, but also published paintings, photographs and other visual art, and provided commentary on the arts, theatre, music, architecture, and aspects of public affairs. His vision for the journal was that it would be "distinctly of New Zealand without being parochial", and he viewed
696-442: Was "something of a motto": "There was a sense of discovery, of sorting out a place [for New Zealand literature] in this world." The magazine was established in 1947 and published by Caxton Press, with Brasch as the editor-in-chief for the first two decades. Glover and Leo Bensemann acted as designers, typographers and printers. For its first 46 years (174 issues), Landfall was a quarterly of 76 pages (with some variation) with
725-509: Was a good place to "find out what is being done in New Zealand literature right now". In 1993, Otago University Press took over publication of the magazine, and Chris Price became sole editor from issue 175 onwards. From issue 185 onwards the publishing frequency decreased from quarterly to biannually. In 1999, the magazine was awarded Best Review Pages at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards . Since March 2011,
754-469: Was also hoped that the magazine would become more "outward looking" and include more works from the Pacific, Australia and other cultures having relevance to New Zealand. Tim Upperton, in his 1987 review of issue 161 for The Press , observed that for New Zealand authors, publication in Landfall "is, literarily speaking, to have arrived". He praised a number of the contributions, and noted that Landfall
783-496: Was described by Peter Simpson in the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (2006) as "the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature". Historian Michael King said that during the twentieth century, " Landfall would more than any other single organ promote New Zealand voices in literature and, at least for the duration of Brasch's editorship (1947–66), publish essays, fiction and poetry of
812-417: Was themed around stories and myths about death, which Smart described in his editorial as "that final stage of growth". Reviewer Diana Prout for The Press noted that although the issue featured some poems about Māori people and reviews of Māori writers' work, it featured no Māori writers. Smart died in December 1981. A review by Dick Corballis of his last Landfall issue, number 140, suggested that Smart
841-417: Was under-appreciated and that his "editorial experiments" (such as themed issues, discouraging academic reviews and including overseas authors) "ensured that Landfall was always fresh and unpredictable". When Dowling succeeded Smart in 1982, he was said by Peter Simpson to have raised standards once again and recovered the magazine's literary reputation. Tom Weston, however, in 1985 recorded his view that
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