Wild & Woolley

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Wild & Woolley was an Australian small book publisher founded by Pat Woolley and Michael Wilding in 1973. [1] [2]

Ron and his wife Robyn Love in front of the Chippendale building Wild&WoolleyRonCobbandRobinLove.jpg
Ron and his wife Robyn Love in front of the Chippendale building

Woolley bought a corner tenement in Chippendale, Sydney, in 1975 for $23,000. [1]

Starting in 1973 with the iconoclastic All About Grass on marijuana smoking, Wild & Woolley became immersed in Sydney's literary and bohemian culture of the 1970s. [1] They published more than 70 books by authors including Charles Bukowski, Denis Altman, Robert Adamson, Vicki Viidikas, Kris Hemensley, Michael Wilding, Katherine Susannah Pritchard, Lee Cataldi, Antigone Kefala, Stephen Knight, Rudi Krausmann, Jack Lindsay, Jon Silkin, Fred Cress, Laurie Duggan, Pam Brown, David Foster, Billy Jones, Ayshe Talay-Ongan, Glenn A Baker, Claire Dan, Rudi Krausmann, Dal Stivens, Tim Anderson, Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Joshua Tickell, Faith Bandler and many others. [3]

As well as books, Wild & Wooley published several popular volumes of underground comix from Ron Cobb and others, in 1975, [4] 1977 [5] and 1981. [6]

Wilding resigned as director in 1979. [7] After leaving Chippendale, Wild & Woolley made its office and warehouse in Kent Street, Sydney, available at no charge for the launch of the Makar Press's The New Australian Poetry. [8]

The press grew considerably through the 1970s and 1980s, and became the Australian agent for American small publishers Black Sparrow Press, City Lights Bookstore and New Directions Publishing. [9]

In 1991 Woolley established Fast Books, which focused on short run book production catering to self-published quality paperbacks. [9] [10]

In 2011, Wild & Woolley and its associated trademarked entity Fast Books were incorporated into Aveekee Pty Ltd, [10] which was run by Pat Woolley with help from Ted Roberts, to produce new audio formats for the international audience. All of the companies ceased to operate after 2017. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Wilding, M. (2011). Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir. Giramondo Shorts Series. Giramondo Publishing Company. ISBN   978-1-920882-74-7 . Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Wild and Woolley". Giramondo Publishing. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Books by Wild Woolley | Book Depository". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "AusReprints - The Cobb Book (Wild & Woolley Pty Ltd., 1975)". ausreprints.net. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  5. ↑ McCausland, Ian; Woolley, Pat, eds. (1977). The Wild & Woolley comix book: Australian underground comix. Sydney: Wild & Woolley. ISBN   978-0-909331-42-9.
  6. ↑ "AusReprints - Colorvision (Wild & Woolley Pty Ltd., 1981?)". ausreprints.net. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  7. ↑ Almond, Rosslyn. "ALMOND on Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir". JASAL . 12 (3): 1–.
  8. ↑ The New Australian Poetry, edited by John Tranter, Makar Press 1979
  9. 1 2 "Wild and Woolley". AustLit . 5 July 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 "Historical details for ABN 85 103 462 219". ABN Lookup. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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