https://blueflowertexts.co.nz BLUE FLOWER TEXTS Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:29:37 +0000 https://blueflowertexts.co.nz en https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/pause Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:29:37 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/pause 2.23pm Sunday 1 MarchBlue Flower Texts is taking a breakSome titles remain at Natural Hand, 10 Oxford St, LytteltonStay in touch @blueflowertexts &amp; blueflowertexts@gmail.com https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-I Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:32:03 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-I https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-II Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:32:39 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-II https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-III Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:31:17 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/PART-III https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Show-Notes-Dal-Chodha Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:08:51 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Show-Notes-Dal-Chodha SHOW NOTES DAL CHODHA $50.00 Self-published134 pages, soft cover The texts are the deconstructed diary entries of a frenzied writer attending fashion shows in London, Milan and Paris. Revised and rebooted from reports written for Wallpaper* magazine over a period of three years, these reflections on clothes, stage sets and the language of PR insist on the authority of the word in an age and an industry possessed by the image. Although fashion revels in the power of its iconography, the endless scroll of our digital existence has made it impossible to see what is right in front of our eyes. SHOW NOTES challenges us to look again at dress to discover the complex reality of 21st century culture, with sartorial omens of climate change, the glittering catacomb of consumerism, the abolition of gender, the cocooning of gen-z, and the hypnotic impact of mass media. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f67453e8498d24b2f3d11b8937118a4be94e964020e74621cc6340673cfc940/IMG_3791.JPG" data-mid="239278690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f67453e8498d24b2f3d11b8937118a4be94e964020e74621cc6340673cfc940/IMG_3791.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f604049536b2be6bd265985de80403f71bc0ec9996fadfa14f4aad3a2a011f88/IMG_3790.JPG" data-mid="239278689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f604049536b2be6bd265985de80403f71bc0ec9996fadfa14f4aad3a2a011f88/IMG_3790.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/522a2f763e5f230057a198b595b39e322bfe6b25085a49246100e1ee953c26fb/IMG_3792.JPG" data-mid="239278691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/522a2f763e5f230057a198b595b39e322bfe6b25085a49246100e1ee953c26fb/IMG_3792.JPG" /> https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Weather-Paintings-Ammon-Ngakuru Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:03:06 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Weather-Paintings-Ammon-Ngakuru WEATHER PAINTINGS AMMON NGAKURU $40.00 Medium Duty80 pages, soft cover 9780473634254 Ammon Ngakuru’s Weather Paintings is the first publication from Ngāmotu based Medium Duty. Edited by Simon Gennard and including an interview between Ngahuia Harrison and Ngakuru, and a new essay by Will Pollard on the weather and its unreckonable power, a topic very close to my own heart (the weather is not small talk). Lushly reproduced images of Ngakuru’s work are spread throughout the catalogue, painterly meditations on, as Gennard writes “a series of questions about what gets sedimented upon the everyday.” Ngakuru’s work is so sharp because it incises the visual culture of those who are looking; the contour of an Uber, an appropriated cover of a semiotext(e) book, the name of an elite Auckland restaurant are all hyper-specific interrogations into taste and criticality. It feels personal, and that’s the charm and the trick and the genius of this oeuvre and this book.&nbsp; <img width="1152" height="1416" width_o="1152" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee34a33ede6f55139dfb64759932b042547dffa333aedc0f2b9e073d47f6084d/Screen-Shot-2025-10-12-at-10.58.09-AM.png" data-mid="239278118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee34a33ede6f55139dfb64759932b042547dffa333aedc0f2b9e073d47f6084d/Screen-Shot-2025-10-12-at-10.58.09-AM.png" /> https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Spectres-IV-A-Thousand-Voices Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:00:42 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Spectres-IV-A-Thousand-Voices SPECTRES IV: A THOUSAND VOICES $45.00 Shelter Press256 pages, soft coverThe voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the most intimate spaces. It can be neither reduced nor summarised. And accordingly, when taken as a theme, the voice is inexhaustible, even when seen in the light of its very particular relation with the sonic or the musical, as is the case in most of the texts collected in this volume. There is no point therefore in trying to circumscribe or amalgamate the multiple avatars of the voice. We must rather try to apprehend what the voice can do, to envisage its landscape, its potential effects. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3ab090c1a08ad14019a8e0751bee0b3665666605e68ba4601bd4683a10f1560/IMG_3796.JPG" data-mid="239278739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3ab090c1a08ad14019a8e0751bee0b3665666605e68ba4601bd4683a10f1560/IMG_3796.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/151fa437f2c61813a189fbe7ba3b6be7b02d6259c096f11d6b6e87ae016d20b9/IMG_3798.JPG" data-mid="239278740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/151fa437f2c61813a189fbe7ba3b6be7b02d6259c096f11d6b6e87ae016d20b9/IMG_3798.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/035c60af8ce33a49c554402094897028853e3bfd1dc3b69390df4173fb209676/IMG_3799.JPG" data-mid="239278741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/035c60af8ce33a49c554402094897028853e3bfd1dc3b69390df4173fb209676/IMG_3799.JPG" /> https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Against-Morality-Rosanna-McLaughlin Thu, 02 Oct 2025 05:38:05 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Against-Morality-Rosanna-McLaughlin AGAINST MORALITY ROSANNA MCLAUGHLIN $36.00 Floating Opera Press88 pages, soft cover9783982668321 Another salient essay from this series, published by Floating Opera Press. In recent decades art institutions have sought to embody liberal values of universal equality and social justice. This move toward greater inclusivity has borne witness to a countervailing trend: artworks are increasingly scrutinized for their political implications, and artists must take care not to transgress particular moral fault lines. The title is provocative, but McLaughlin convincingly connects the aesthetic celebration of “protest” or “politics” within the gallery space, to the institution’s intolerance for real life action that might jeopardise their own optics, position, and reveal their complicity in maintaining imperialist, Zionist, and capitalist regimes. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6003f1085173fe774aa973da16400fdb3a36c586cdf983e833f9b057230e12ce/IMG_3776.JPG" data-mid="239276599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6003f1085173fe774aa973da16400fdb3a36c586cdf983e833f9b057230e12ce/IMG_3776.JPG" /> https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/The-Gender-of-Sound-Anne-Carson Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:46:49 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/The-Gender-of-Sound-Anne-Carson THE GENDER OF SOUNDANNE CARSON $25.00 Silver Press 48 pages, paperback9781739371791 When glass breaks, the noise it makes is a uniquely terrifying shimmer. In The Gender of Sound, the shatter of glass can be heard as the lure of a siren; the effeminate is understood as cause for alarm andmanifests shrilly as alarm itself. It is a sharp analysis of the ways that high-pitched voices have been coded as unwise or untrustworthy since the ancients, and as a soft voice myself, it’s a text that sold me on Carson wholeheartedly. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/770cbd3a13f27ecbb0c964f051095582ce45519b52aa5cd2a62e56cd66f9fe9d/IMG_2759.JPG" data-mid="235117875" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/770cbd3a13f27ecbb0c964f051095582ce45519b52aa5cd2a62e56cd66f9fe9d/IMG_2759.JPG" /> https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Cupboard-Magazine-issue-3 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:17:22 +0000 BLUE FLOWER TEXTS https://blueflowertexts.co.nz/Cupboard-Magazine-issue-3 PUNK IS TWEE CUPBOARD MAGAZINE: ISSUE 3 $80.00 Cupboard192 pages, soft cover I came across Cupboard Magazine by way of the incredible pictures by contributor Shelley Fox, images of her clothing archive that a mouse and a flood had got into and transformed, unravelling and swelling these textiles. The interface of clothes and the world, when these two meet is at the heart of Cupboard I think, edited/created by designer Chloe Haggar, who is based in Australia. I am so interested in the clothing that people actually wear, and this is full of that, in the park or in Paris, or why someone doesn’t like wearing navy (reminded me of my dear friend Igor who refused to wear the colour blue). There are also a series of great interviews in this issue, formatted like a crossword&nbsp;so the questions are like clues to expand and respond to yourself as well. Feel honoured to stock this one. ft. Anna-Sophie Berger &amp; Paul Levack Anabel Robinson &amp; Hana Earles Brendan Morris Bec Martin &amp; Chloe Hagger Giovanna Flores Ignatz Freer Jagi Nelson Katherine Botten Lolina Moss Lasica Wood Minnie Nancarrow Matthew Linde Olive Z Rowan Miles Tim Hardy &amp; Blake Barns design by Ned Shannon interviews with LA Timpa, Black Country, New Road, Hayden Pedigo, New York, Sharp Pins <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f1bae85da56d378b7ba5b8cadc2983bcc7d22982b30c509c431ee5bbd61249e/IMG_2764.JPG" data-mid="235117886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f1bae85da56d378b7ba5b8cadc2983bcc7d22982b30c509c431ee5bbd61249e/IMG_2764.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61db4ab00820c2c4f324f230f43f5baff149414955b749140c6e3493f8f96b29/IMG_2763.JPG" data-mid="235117884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61db4ab00820c2c4f324f230f43f5baff149414955b749140c6e3493f8f96b29/IMG_2763.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/453b2fb1d111c88aa902f18bebd99c4a6e6634185a7009b7998524bc04aefa1c/IMG_2762.JPG" data-mid="235117890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/453b2fb1d111c88aa902f18bebd99c4a6e6634185a7009b7998524bc04aefa1c/IMG_2762.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ea1ea6dd753fee4527d624f1b744a96fb9a120ac9cbbbb099584d15224b3bd7/IMG_2761.JPG" data-mid="235117889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ea1ea6dd753fee4527d624f1b744a96fb9a120ac9cbbbb099584d15224b3bd7/IMG_2761.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52ffc43bef9f872641d8aed8f8206dd060825af6d1a2ae9717d8992bd09d44cb/IMG_2765.JPG" data-mid="235117887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52ffc43bef9f872641d8aed8f8206dd060825af6d1a2ae9717d8992bd09d44cb/IMG_2765.JPG" />