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Rewards, challenges, surprise, Roger Robinson
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776560677 Alistair Te Ariki Campbell always surprised us. He surprised the severely nationalistic poetry establishment of the post-WWII era with laments and elegies and mythic landscapes of…
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
Slurries of history, Hugh Roberts
The Year of Adverbs Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $14.95, ISBN 9781869403942 Just Poetry Alistair Te Ariki Campbell HeadworX, $19.99, ISBN 9780473124982 The Pop-up Book of Invasions Fiona Farrell Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869403881 Villon in Millerton James Norcliffe…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Fiona Farrell, HeadworX, Hugh Roberts, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
History’s ghosts, Hugh Roberts
The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Hazard Press, $40.00, ISBN 1877393002 Poems 1946-2005 W H Oliver Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735189 There are few readers now, I imagine, who could guess at more than…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Autumn 2006, Hazard Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 73, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
When Tu commands, Les Cleveland
Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159115 This sequence of 72 short narrative poems with nine photographs is a loose, anecdotal treatment of the Maori Battalion’s part in World War 2. It also…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 54, Les Cleveland, Wai-te-ata Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A sense of completeness, John O’Connor
Gallipoli & Other Poems Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877159 08 5 In 1971 I wandered into a Christchurch bookshop and asked for the poems of Ezra “Pond”. I was doing UE at night tech; someone…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, John O’Connor, Wai-te-ata Press
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review