Yearly Archives: 1993
A variety of voices, Mark Williams
100 New Zealand Poems Bill Manhire (ed), Godwit, $29.95 Some years ago I edited a small anthology of New Zealand poetry. It was a truly hellish experience. Some poets wanted to know how much space had been given to rivals,…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Godwit, Issue 11, Mark Williams, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
New confidence and authority, Jane Stafford
Seven Days on Mykonos Anne French, Auckland University Press, $19.95 To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from, says Seamus Heaney. But if you are a New Zealander, you also have to have a…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Issue 11, Jane Stafford, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
What gives it meaning? Anne French
The Tudor Style Elizabeth Smither, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Guardians, not Angels Stephen Oliver, Hazard Press, $19.95 Distances Rob Jackaman, Hazard Press, $19.95 Days Beside Water Gregory O’Brien, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Malachi Gregory O’Brien, Little Esther Books, $13.00, available…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Gregory O’Brien, Hazard Press, Issue 11, Little Esther Books, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Who are the intruders? Brian Turner
Dark of the Moon and Beak of the Moon, Philip Temple, Penguin, each $24.95 Sailor, explorer, writer, mountaineer: Philip Temple was all of those things when I first met him in the 1970s. Originally from England ‑ he emigrated as…
Revelling in the actuality of the past, Ralph Johnson
The House of Strife Maurice Shadbolt, Hodder and Stoughton, $39.95 Life is no uniform uninterrupted march or flow. It is a thing of histories, each with its own plot, its inception and movement towards its close. – John Dewey,…
Tagged with: Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 11, Maurice Shadbolt, Ralph Johnson, Summer 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fiction, history and art of displacement, Brian Edwards
Let the River Stand Vincent O’Sullivan, Penguin, $24.95 Amongst conceptions of history, at least in its articulations with fiction and with postmodernism as perception of a contemporary cultural movement, grand narratives of human progress give way to local detail, to…
Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Unacknowledged legislators, Diane Hebley
Zigzag William Taylor (ed), Penguin, $19.95 Slide the Corner Fleur Beale, Ashton Scholastic Take Me to Your Leaders Gaelyn Gordon, Tui Harper/Collins, $14.95 Those who support New Zealand literature for children and young adults have always claimed the justification for…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Collins, Fleur Beale, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Tui Harper, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Amidst the bric-à-brac, Harvey McQueen
Writing a New Country: A collection of essays presented to E H McCormick in his 88th year James Ross, Linda Gill and Stuart McRae (eds), privately published, James Ross, 495 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms:…
Tagged with: Christine Franzen, E H McCormick, Harry Orsman, Harvey McQueen, Issue 11, James Ross, Laurie Bauer, Linda Gill, Stuart McRae, Summer 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Review
Wrenched from the alphabet, Mark Williams
Posted in Comment, Literature, Poetry