A large variety of all the same? The late Allen Curnow was fond of quoting Yeats’s dictum that the real test of poets lies in how they deal with sex and death. Perhaps not surprisingly, both subjects loom memorably…
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Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Domesticating Derrida, Kim Worthington
Derrida Downunder ed Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864693745 Jacques Derrida’s visit to New Zealand, for the Derrida Downunder Conference organised by Auckland University in 1999, was certainly an event worthy of commemoration in print. This was…
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Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Heather Worth, Issue 52, Jacques Derrida, Kim Worthington, Laurence Simmons, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
How far can you go? John Stenhouse
The Bishop’s Paper: A History of the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Auckland Nicholas Reid Catholic Publications Centre, $22.95, ISBN 0473072181 Nicholas Reid sheds valuable light on New Zealand’s religious and cultural history in The Bishop’s Paper, a history…
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Tagged with: Catholic Publications Centre, Issue 52, John Stenhouse, Nicholas Reid, Summer 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Quo vadis, Alan? Simone Drichel
Szabad Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414721 Reviewing a new novel by – notoriously controversial – Alan Duff is not only a daunting, but also a somewhat futile exercise. Judgements regarding Duff’s work tend to be firmly in place: there…
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Tagged with: Alan Duff, Issue 52, Simone Drichel, Summer 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Down memory lane, Bernadette Hall
Axis: Poems & Drawings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877276065 The Sky’s Enormous Jug Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $24.00, ISBN 0908943199 Stairdancing Janet Hughes Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159077 It was a rather odd experience writing this particular…
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Tagged with: Bernadette Hall, Cilla McQueen, Issue 52, Jan Kemp, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Puriri Press, Summer 2002, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Biennial banquet, Jane Stafford
Writers and Readers Week Common threads of history, memory, the intersection of personal experience with the historical past, suggest lively debate at this year’s Writers and Readers Week. The Observer critic said of John Banville’s latest novel, Eclipse: “With prose…
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