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New twists for old, Harry Ricketts

Posted on March 26, 2000 by NZ Books

Parodies Regained A K Grant Hazard, $19.95, ISBN 1 877161 23 3 Literary parody, though it subverts and pokes fun at literary tradition, has evolved a richly varied anti-tradition of its own. One fairly recent strand of this, dating from…

Tagged with: A K Grant, Harry Ricketts, Hazard, Issue 42
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Naughty bits, A K Grant

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang ed Harry Orsman Oxford University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 19 558408 2 Harry Orsman achieved semi-divine status among New Zealand scholars with the publication of his highly-acclaimed Dictionary of New Zealand English. But…

Tagged with: A K Grant, Issue 39
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review

The loneliness of the short distance columnist, A K Grant

Posted on June 1, 1993 by NZ Books

5 Days in Las Vegas Raybon Kan, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $29.95 I must confess to a personal grievance in relation to this book, a collection of pieces, mostly from the Dominion or the Listener, by the gifted young…

Tagged with: A K Grant, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Raybon Kan, Winter 1993
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review