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Movement is all, Paula Green

Posted on March 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Magnetic South Sue Wootton Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448232 Spark Emma Neale Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448195 The Propaganda Poster Girl Amy Brown Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735744 The World’s Fastest Flower Charlotte Simmonds Victoria…

Tagged with: Amy Brown, Autumn 2009, Charlotte Simmonds, Emma Neale, Issue 85, Paula Green, Steele Roberts, Sue Wootton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry

Various elsewheres, Michael Hulse

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Degrees of Separation Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020579 Relative Strangers Emma Neale Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 1869417828 Work in Progress Paul Thomas Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 1869418255 Shanghai Boy Stevan Eldred-Grigg Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 1869417933 If I didn’t know…

Tagged with: Black Swan, Emma Neale, Issue 76, Laurence Fearnley, Paul Thomas, Penguin, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2006, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Tousled and tart, Emma Neale

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books

London Notebook Mark Pirie Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $24.95, ISBN 1869420586 Wild Daisies: The Best of Bub Bridger Bub Bridger Mallinson Rendel, $34.95, ISBN 0908783973 Your Secret Life Harry Ricketts HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 0476101300 Presenting Pirie’s new collection as…

Tagged with: Bub Bridger, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Emma Neale, Harry Ricketts, HeadworX, Issue 74, Mallinson Rendel, Mark Pirie, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Poem – Emma Neale

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Newborn His mouth a small red hearth we crowd around drawn like man-moths to its light and warmth. When its suck and flicker at the breast stops we blow cool breath on the soft black coal of his head…

Tagged with: Emma Neale, Issue 64, Summer 2003
Posted in Poem

Nudging the unsuitable, Cilla McQueen

Posted on March 1, 2002 by NZ Books

How To Make A Million Emma Neale Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 18692100X The Unfortunate Singer Rachel Bush Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734360 My reading’s re-creation, via language, of another poet’s perceptions, thoughts, aural sensibility and verbal skill, allows me a…

Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cilla McQueen, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 57, Rachel Bush, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Fruit ‘n nut, Emma Neale

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Only One Angel Jan Kemp University of Otago Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877276170 Snowing Down South Janet Charman Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402685 After publishing a poem in a church magazine, and receiving messages from people all over the country…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Issue 56, Jan Kemp, Janet Charman, Otago University Press, Summer 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

The uses of memory, Louise O’Brien

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Little Moon Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414756 Little Moon, Emma Neale’s second novel, following the success of Night Swimming in 1998, is an account of the troubled childhood and adolescence of a young woman growing up in New Zealand.…

Tagged with: December 2001, Emma Neale, Issue 51, Louise O’Brien, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Revelling in idiosyncrasy, Diane Brown

Posted on September 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Bag Lady’s Picnic Frankie McMillan Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251097 Creative Juices. New Writing ed Emma Neale Flamingo, $29.95, ISBN 1869504100 “We want more Kiwi dialogues,” my advanced ESOL class told me. I toyed with the idea of…

Tagged with: Diane Brown, Emma Neale, Flamingo, Frankie McMillan, Issue 55, Shoal Bay Press, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

Rise of the Super-models, Bernadette Hall

Posted on March 26, 2000 by NZ Books

AUP New Poets Raewyn Alexander, Anna Jackson, Sarah Quigley Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 197 2 Sleeve-notes Emma Neale Godwit, $19.95, ISBN 1 86962 048 8 bell tongue Paola Bilbrough Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 363…

Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 42, Paola Bilbrough, Raewyn Alexander, Sarah Quigley, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Swimming with the tide, Sally Sutton

Posted on June 13, 1999 by NZ Books

The Sound of her Body Laurence Fearnley Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 25 X Night Swimming Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 376 8 Spinners Anthony McCarten Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 355 5 The American poet Randall…

Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Emma Neale, Hazard Press, Issue 38, Laurence Fearnley, Sally Sutton, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review