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Blank spaces, Tim Grgec
The Farewell Tourist Alison Glenny Otago University Press, $27.50, ISBN 978198853129 All of Us Adrienne Jansen and Carina Gallegos Landing Press, $22.00, ISBN 9780473451684 Louder Kerrin P Sharpe Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561964 Alison Glenny’s Kathleen Grattan Poetry award-winning…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Alison Glenny, Carina Gallegos, Kerrin P Sharpe, Landing Press, Otago University Press, Tim Grgec, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Driving home, Ann Beaglehole
Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers tell their Stories Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant (Michael Hall photographer) Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781927277331 In Adrienne Jansen’s 1990 book I Have in My Arms Both Ways, 10 immigrant women told their…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 113, Liz Grant, Michael Hall
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Writing on the high wire, Sue McCauley
The Score Adrienne Jansen Escalator Press, $28.00, ISBN 978047325328 The Virgin & the Whale Carl Nixon Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775533757 I’m Working on a Building Pip Adam Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738981 When more than one book is featured…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Carl Nixon, Escalator Press, Issue 106, Pip Adam, Sue McCauley, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Elliptical documentaries, Paola Bilbrough
A Stone Seat and a Shadow Tree Adrienne Jansen Inkweed, $19.95, ISBN 0473072556 The best poems in Adrienne Jansen’s A Stone Seat and a Shadow Tree have a lucid simplicity to them. The most compelling are those about beginnings and…
People like us, Jane Westaway
Holy Days Joy Cowley Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004169 Breakwater Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734174 Floating the Fish on Bamboo Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503988 Domestic realism is the meat and potatoes of contemporary fiction. So it…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 53, Jane Westaway, Joy Cowley, Kate Duignan, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Genre-blending, Janet Hughes
Russian Dolls Bronwyn Tate Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877133 77 9 Spirit Writing Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 317 1 Genre can be a tool or a trap. By the time a particular predicament has been…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Bronwyn Tate, HarperCollins, Issue 44, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Adrienne Jansen
The Sea Horse It was transparently still in the water just the kick of a stone from your foot. You said, “I’ve never seen a sea horse live before.” But it was hardly alive. It was clear glass, bones in…
Boxing the compass, David Eggleton
How Things Are Adrienne Jansen, Harry Ricketts, J C Sturm and Meg Campbell Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brasell Press, $21.95 ISBN 0 958351341 four Damien Wilkins, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins Published by the authors, no price given,…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Bill Manhire, Damien Wilkins, Daphne Brasell Press, David Eggleton, Elizabeth Knox, Emily Perkins, Harry Ricketts, Issue 24, J C Sturm, Meg Campbell, Whitireia Publishing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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