Established in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia and operational until 2021, the press produced over 20 handprinted limited edition books, around 50 limited edition broadside posters, countless short-run ephemera including printed keepsakes, and contributions to journals such as Bookways: A Quarterly Journal of Book Arts (USA) and Matrix: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles (Whittington Press, UK).
The papers, correspondence, sales records, process drawings and blocks and collected works of the Wayzgoose Press are now held as an archive in the State Library of Victoria.
[1] Michael (Mike) Hudson was born in London in 1939 and studied design at the Hornsey College of Art where he later became a senior lecturer in photography.
They started with an Alexandra platen press and over time bought three letterpress proof-presses: a Western 4C, a Vandercook and a Fag.
[9] After an unsuccessful attempt in 1994 to procure permission to work with an excerpt of Ulysses by James Joyce (working title, Molly Bloom, inspired by the experience of printing The Cure),[10] it was suggested by a friend that Jarvis and Hudson should explore Australian performance poetry and forwarded a recording of Jas H. Duke's Dada Kampfen um Leben und Tod (Dada's life and death struggle).
[12] They used only Australian literature: poetry by Ken Bolton, Pi O, fiction by George Alexander, and a play by Noëlle Janaczewska.
[37] According to the National Library of Australia, "Typomania is an annual printfest held in the Hans-Hergot Thurm in Uelzen, Germany for hand-press printers, printmakers and artists.
The participants set and print their individual interpretations on a selected theme, some being: Globalisation (1999), Slowness (2001), Hans Hergot (2002), Water (2004), Super size me (2006), Corruption (2008), The Empire of shame [Inequality] (2009).