- Wild & Woolley
Wild & Woolley is an
Australian book publisher founded in 1974 by Michael Wilding andPat Woolley . The first books published by the firm were "Zimmer's Essay" (Adamson & Hanford) and "Wrappings" byVicki Viidikas .Fact|date=February 2007Authors published by the firm include Robert Adamson,
Glenn A. Baker ,Faith Bandler ,Ron Cobb ,Fred Cress ,Antigone Kefala ,Rudi Krausmann ,Bruce Petty ,Pi O , andVicki Viidikas . The firm also acted as Australian distributors for various foreign publishers includingBlack Sparrow Press ,City Lights Books , New Directions, andPluto Press .Wild & Woolley made their office and warehouse available at no charge for the launch of the
Makar Press 's "The New Australian Poetry " ["The New Australian Poetry ", edited byJohn Tranter , Makar Press 1979] The editor of this anthology,John Tranter , recalls that when poet and academic Andrew Taylor took the stage to make the official launch (having stepped in at the last moment due to the illness ofBob Brissenden ) that as the crowd quietened down John Forbes yelled out "‘Cultural Lackey!’."Important dates
* 1974 first books: Zimmer's Essay (Adamson & Hanford) and Wrappings (Vicki Viidikas).Fact|date=February 2007
* 1979 Michael resigned his directorship to free up more time for his own writing.Fact|date=February 2007
* 1980 fire destroyed equipment and stocks.Fact|date=February 2007
* 1981 moved to old factory inGlebe, New South Wales .Fact|date=February 2007
* 1983 published first four titles from Women's Redress Press including Welou, My Brother byFaith Bandler .Fact|date=February 2007
* 1991 the first publisher in the world to print books on aphotocopier .Fact|date=February 2007
* 2003 3 million books later, sold photocopier, binder, and factory. Moved toWatsons Bay .Fact|date=February 2007Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.wildandwoolley.com.au/ Wild and Woolley website]
* [http://www.austlit.com/a/duggan/d3poetry-wars.html Extract] fromLaurie Duggan 's diary describing launch of "The New Australian Poetry"
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