“They’re gorgeously designed and produced in a small format on lovely, heavy stock, almost as pleasant to handle as to read. At its best an essay is a series of reflections on a subject which draws from, rather than conceals, the writer’s personality and personal preoccupations. Essays can be wildly digressive, presenting a range of disparate images, but what you look for is an ultimate thematic unity, a kind of tying-up which pulls all the edgy glimpses and vistas of insight into a single, coherent whole — a kind of intellectual Mobius strip ... ”

North & South magazine, November, 2002


 

02 the book as object


I Saw You and I Must Behave by Bruce Connew

Stopover by Bruce Connew

Looking for the Local — Architecture and the New Zealand Modern by Justine Clark and Paul Walker

A Short History of Photography by Harvey Benge

Montana Estate Essay Series Four Winds Press

Muttonbirds — part of a story by Bruce Connew

Cover Up: The Art of the Book Cover in New Zealand by Hamish Thompson

 


Montana Estate Essay Series


Published by Four Winds Press, 2002—2003


They are lovely, pocket-sized works of design art to look at, each less than 60 pages ... they may even be works of literary art ... thoughtful, erudite and amusing.
Listener, Sept 14, 2002


These books marked the beginning of the publication of 12 essays to date. The first three were published in September, 2002. The series editor is Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip and Biografi.


 

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