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One of us, David Groves

Posted on November 29, 2019 by NZ Books

Karl Wolfskehl: A Poet In Exile
Friedrich Voit
Cold Hub Press, $40.00,
ISBN 9780473476694

We have many short accounts in English of aspects of the life, character and writings of Karl Wolfskehl. Friedrich Voit now gives us a biography, in the set of three books published by Cold Hub Press, the first being Andrew Paul Wood’s translation of a selection of Wolfskehl’s poems in the bilingual edition Drei Welten/Three Worlds (reviewed in NZRB Summer 2016) and the second Poetry And Exile, a selection of letters splendidly translated and edited by Nelson Wattie.

Tagged with: Cold Hub Press, David Groves, Friedrich Voit, Issue 128, Karl Wolfskehl, Summer 2019
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

The Italian job, David Groves

Posted on September 1, 2011 by NZ Books

Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian Jack Ross and Marco Sonzogni (eds) Novi Ligure, Edizioni Joker,€ 20.00, ISBN 9788875362645 This book is the culmination of a project which began with the 1999 publication in Landfall of seven…

Tagged with: David Groves, Issue 95, Jack Ross, Kendrick Smithyman, Marco Sonzogni, Novi Ligure, Spring 2011
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Something rich and strange, David Groves

Posted on March 1, 1995 by NZ Books

Stand Alone Stan, vol 2 of the quartet A Land Fit for Heroes Phillip Mann, Victor Gollancz, price not available This is Phillip Mann’s seventh book of fiction, an imaginative and philosophically coherent body of work, spanning over a decade.…

Tagged with: Autumn 1995, David Groves, Issue 17, Phillip Mann, Victor Gollancz, Winter 1995
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review