The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Inside Outside Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736536 Coming Ashore Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 9781877577499 Fly Boy Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 97818544125 “I seek to honour/the truculent/genesis of living,” states…
Dream Boat: Selected Poems Tony Beyer HeadworX, $34.99, ISBN 9780473126520 Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404024 Mr Maui’s Monologues Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448270 In Continents Richard Reeve Auckland University Press,…
A Life’s Sentences Gordon McLauchlan Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019163 Sorry, I’m a Stranger Here Myself Peter Bland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869416325 Both these books call themselves/are called memoirs. I’ve never liked the word; I find a back-of-hand-to-brow affectation in it.…
The Night Kite Peter Bland, illustrations by Carl Bland, Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783833 Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Graeme Gash, Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783752 Cat’s Whiskers – 4 Favourite Lynley Dodd Stories Lynley Dodd…