The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Victoria University Press, $50.00,
ISBN 9781776560677
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell always surprised us.
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Rewards, challenges, surprise, Roger Robinson
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 118, Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poetry and politics, Sarah Sharp
Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist Harry Holland (Dougal McNeill ed) Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493172 Writing during the 1920s, Harry Holland describes the celebration of Burns Night as an event which unites Scots around the world: be the Scot where…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Dougal McNeill, Harry Holland, Issue 117, Robert Burns, Sarah Sharp, Steele Roberts
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A slap in the face with a mohair glove, Anna Jackson
Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776560714 I have been reading Hera Lindsay Bird like a waitress pouring myself into the coffee … and then drinking it all before I get it as far as…
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Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Hera Lindsay Bird, Issue 116, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
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Poetry and the poem, Michael Hulse
Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560660 If I begin by saying that Jenny Bornholdt gives the impression of being a very modest person, it’s not because this review is to be an assessment of her character,…
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Tagged with: Issue 116, Jenny Bornholdt, Michael Hulse, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
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A late flowering, Peter Russell
Karl Wolfskehl: Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems: German and English Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood (trans) Cold Hub Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780473358679 This book is a triumph: a triumph of the translator’s art, and a triumph in…
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Tagged with: Andrew Paul Wood, Cold Hub Press, Friedrich Voit, Issue 116, Peter Russell, Summer 2016
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Letters of aroha and respect, Olivia Bennett
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 1877228206 “The art of walking upright here is the art of using both feet”. For many New Zealanders, the very essence of being Kiwi is being part of a…
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Tagged with: Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 116, Olivia Bennett, Steele Roberts, Summer 2016
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Mystery, wisdom and complication, Gregory O’Brien
The Lives of Coat Hangers Sudesh Mishra University of Otago Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927322376 “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not.” I was reminded of American sculptor Carl Andre’s words, as I read Sudesh Mishra’s remarkable…
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Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 115, Spring 2016, Sudesh Mishra, University of Otago Press
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Forces for good, Damian Love
And So It Is Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 97817765650592 Fits and Starts Andrew Johnston Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 97817765650592 “There is”: for the last two decades these words have been the key note of Vincent O’Sullivan’s…
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Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Damian Love, Issue 115, Spring 2016, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
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Speaking in a new language, Anahera Gildea
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan (eds) Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408176 To my nieces and nephews, Some of you speak English and some of you are bilingual but, either…
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Tagged with: Anahera Gildea, Issue 115, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2016
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Posted in Literature, Poetry
“No country for old men”
Sydney-based New Zealand writer Paul Schimmel surveys the Hera Lindsay Bird phenomenon from across the ditch
Since Hera Lindsay Bird’s volume of poetry Hera Lindsay Bird was selected for the so-called long-list for the New Zealand book awards in poetry, and subsequently for the short list, I have become aware, from across the ditch, that a small-scale cult-like phenomenon seems to be emerging around her.
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