Under New Stars: Poems of the New Zealand Exile: German and English, Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood, Margot Ruben, Dean and Renate Koch (trans) Karl Wolfskehl The Holloway Press, $290.00, ISBN 978086461828 This book will be welcomed by those…
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Imperial Vistas Family Fictions Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 186940274X Last Poems Kendrick Smithyman The Holloway Press, $65, ISBN 095823132X It’s an interesting parlour game to speculate how New Zealand’s literary history might have changed had Kendrick Smithyman…
A Shipboard Diary Annie & Harold Beauchamp Holloway Press, University of Auckland $250.00 and $150.00 [no ISBN] This modest work raises the endlessly fascinating question of the relation between life and art. The title-page explains that it was written “by…