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Constant fizz and playful grace, Mark Houlahan
Alan Brunton: Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Poems 1968-2002 Michele Leggott and Martin Edmond (eds) Titus Books, $38.00, ISBN 9781877441479 Sweeping the Courtyard: The Selected Poems of Michael Harlow Michael Harlow Cold Hub Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780473274207 My first Red Mole…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Cold Hub Press, Issue 110, Mark Houlahan, Martin Edmond, Michael Harlow, Michele Leggott, Titus Books, Winter 2015
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The poem as stretch limo, Ian Wedde
Fq Alan Brunton Bumper Books, $32.95, ISBN 0958222541 The idea of the long poem as a stretch limo glides towards me. The vehicle is at once ostentatious and stylish, excessive and sleek. Displaying privilege, it also accommodates a raucous wedding-party…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Autumn 2002, Bumper Books, Ian Wedde, Issue 57
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Light that fire, Lydia Wevers
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 eds Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 869402308 A thick black-and-white book with a beautiful cover illustration by Patrick Hanly taken from the second issue of Freed, Big Smoke…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, December 2000, Issue 46, Lydia Wevers, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poets from the Hazard Press and AUP, Max Anderson
In the First Place David Howard, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95 Slow Passes Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, 1991, $24.95 Karitane Postcards Rob Allan, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95 Return to the Earth Graham Lindsay, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, David Howard, Graham Lindsay, Hazard Press, Issue 5, Max Anderson, Mike Minehan, Rob Allan, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review