Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2019
Finalist
Designers: Cover: Keely O’Shannessy
Interior: Katrina Duncan
Title: Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: 210 x 135mm, 148pp. Text printed on 80gsm Ensolux Cream (FSC). Cover/jacket printed 4c with matt varnish on 298gsm Hyacinth Impression Recycled off white (FSC).
Typography: Text font: Tiempos. Cover font: Absara.
Judges’ comments: “Really nice and tidy job. Clean layout, heightens the experience of reading the pieces. The cover reflects one of the poems.”
“The poems sit well on the page, there’s a nice use of white space. The grey section dividers work well – they’re subtle but strong enough to be noticed when looking at book edge.”
“Tight, tidy typesetting and page layouts throughout.”
“Strong combination of cover illustration and artwork which immediately signal craft. Each woodcut-esque black mark a word or line from inside. The matched typefaces have strong no nonsense presence and confidence themselves as if a woodcut choice. Internal is a subtle journey through column start points in the underlying versatile grid. Grey tint laid for chapter divides work well, a calming thought-collecting breath between bodies of poems. Elegant typographic subservience allowing a read of pleasure.”
