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An account of trauma, Michael Hulse
Allen Curnow: Collected Poems Elizabeth Caffin and Terry Sturm (eds) Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869408510 Allen Curnow’s poetry is a transcript of trauma. “Morning by morning incorruption / Puts on corruption”: this most fundamental of thoughts, borne in upon…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Elizabeth Caffin, Issue 121, Michael Hulse, Terry Sturm
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Allen Curnow
A Raised Voice Let it be Sunday and the alp-high summer gale gusting to fifty miles. Windmills groan in disbelief, the giant in the pulpit enjoys his own credible scale, stands twelve feet ‘clothed in fine linen’ visibly white from…
Consecrating Curnow, Simon During
Allen Curnow: Simply by Sailing in a New Direction Terry Sturm (Linda Cassells (ed)) Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408527, Allen Curnow’s first book, Valley of Decision, appeared as a “Phoenix Miscellany” under the Auckland University College Students’ Association Press…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Linda Cassells, Simon During, Terry Sturm
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Wit and moral clarity, Hugh Roberts
Whim Wham’s New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 Terry Sturm (ed) Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 1869417577 It is by now no secret that Allen Curnow, a man with few rivals for the title of “New Zealand’s Greatest Poet”,…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Hugh Roberts, Issue 76, Summer 2006, Terry Sturm, Vintage, Whim Wham
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Obiturary — Allen Curnow
Allen Curnow (1911-2001) When did a wind of the extreme South before Mix autumn, spring and death? (“Elegy on My Father”, Allen Curnow, 1949) I cannot remember when I first encountered Allen Curnow’s poetry. It seems to have been…
Not tolling for me, Heather Murray
The Bells of Saint Babel’s: Poems 1997-2001 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402421 They have all gone into the dark: the fellow poets of his youth and middle age, the critics, the early shapers and gatekeepers of New…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Heather Murray, Issue 49
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tolling on, James Brown
The Bells of Saint Babel’s: Poems 1997-2001 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402421 There is much to admire in Curnow’s first completely new book since The Loop in Lone Kauri Road (1986). To the fore is his great…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, James Brown
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Looping de Loop in Lone Kauri road, Ken Arvidson
Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 162 X On the cover a reproduction of Colin McCahon’s 1965 painting Floodgate conveys ideas of power, compression and explosive force. At the…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Issue 31, Spring 1997
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
To make the world intelligible, Max Anderson
Selected Poems 1940-1989 Allen Curnow Viking hardback, $49.95 (Penguin paperback, Auckland, 1990, $27.95) When Allen Curnow published Continuum, his collected poems 1972-1988, he organized the book back-to-front: most recent poems at the beginning, earliest at the end. The selection, a…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Issue 2, Max Anderson, Penguin, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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Accurate misquotation – a blast from the present, Hugh Roberts
Posted in Comment, Poetry