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How to keep your secret, Ken Arvidson

What to call your child Bill Manhire Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1 86962 044 5 This attractive volume marks the end of Bill Manhire’s two-year term as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate. Because he has lived the role out so

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Sheer glitter, Ken Arvidson

Seeing You Asked Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473352 6 Seeing You Asked is Vincent O’Sullivan’s tenth volume of new poetry, the first since The Pilate Tapes of 1986. In The Pilate Tapes and before that in

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Affirming lucidity — Edmond’s ‘wisdom poetry’, Ken Arvidson

A Matter of Timing  Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 140 9 In A Matter of Timing, Lauris Edmond’s first collection of new poems since the 1988 volume Summer Near the Arctic Circle, we find new depths and

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Creative use of language, Ken Arvidson

Selected Stories Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Patricia Grace’s first two volumes of short stories, Waiariki (1975) and The Dream Sleepers (1980), and her first novel Mutuwhenua (1978), all contained glossaries giving the English meanings of the Maori expressions used. The later novel Potiki (1986) and

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