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Back to the future, Harvey Molloy

Posted on November 29, 2019 by NZ Books

Where We Land
Tim Jones
The Cuba Press, $22.00,
ISBN 9781988595023

Īnangahua Gold
Kathleen Gallagher
KingFisher Publishing $30.00
ISBN 978047345945I

Small presses continue to publish some of our most exciting new fiction. Both Where We Land and Īnangahua Gold take us away from present-day New Zealand. In doing so, they ask us to consider where we have come from and where we are going.

Tagged with: Harvey Molloy, Issue 128, Kathleen Gallagher, KingFisher Publishing, Summer 2019, The Cuba Press, Tim Jones
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

On message, Isa Moynihan

Posted on December 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Is She Still Alive? Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $34.99, ISBN 9781869507107 Alternative Medicine Laura Solomon Flame Books, $30.00 (approx), ISBN 978095562514 Transported Tim Jones Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781864919844 In her introduction to Is She Still Alive? Tessa Duder says the stories…

Tagged with: Flame Books, HarperCollins, Isa Moynihan, Issue 84, Laura Solomon, Summer 2008, Tessa Duder, Tim Jones, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Poem – Tim Jones

Posted on March 1, 2007 by NZ Books

The Wrong Horse The pleasures of the text are the pleasures of spring. Halter tops, tanned skin, buttocks sashaying past an open office door. You pack your books away. The self is conceived as a structure of signifiers. Thirty…

Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Tim Jones
Posted in Poem

Poem – Tim Jones

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

The Translator Shutting out the torment and the fear deep into the night’s cold morning hours I work on my translation. Improbable, that in another tongue such lines as these were born, set down, are vivid on his page…

Tagged with: Issue 66, Tim Jones, Winter 2004
Posted in Poem

Referencing the self, James Norcliffe

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Storyteller Simon Williamson HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473086220 Boat People Tim Jones HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087456 Chantal’s Book Jack Ross HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087448 Through his Wellington HeadworX publishing house Mark Pirie has become something of a phenomenon in recent years…

Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 58, Jack Ross, James Norcliffe, Simon Williamson, Tim Jones, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Thinly sliced, Rebecca Lovell-Smith

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

the honey suckers Victoria McHalick HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503805 Extreme Weather Events Tim Jones HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473073870 These are slight books, two debut collections of New Zealand short fiction which, sandwiched between heavier weightier tomes, would scarcely be noticed.…

Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, HeadworX, Issue 51, Rebecca Lovell-Smith, Tim Jones, Victoria McHalick
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories