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Jib-booms and bobstays, Anne French
Southern Breeze: a history of yachting in New Zealand Harold Kidd, Robin Elliott, and David Pardon Viking, $74.95, ISBN 0 670 88650 5 Salt beneath the skin: Seafaring Kiwis tell their stories ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1 86950…
Tagged with: Anne French, David Pardon, Harold Kidd, HarperCollins, Issue 44, Robin Elliott, Tessa Duder, Viking
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Still in the ascendant, Anne French
The Lark Quartet Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 216 2 Now here’s a curious thing. The Elizabeth Smither who burst fully formed out of the New Zealand literary forehead 25 years ago, back in 1975, turns…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 41
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unexpected kindness, Elizabeth Crayford
Boys’ night out Anne French Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 189 1 Kitchens”, the first poem in Anne French’s fifth ollection Boys’ night out, is set in her sister’s kitchen: “Pam wants/ to know how I’m feeling.” The…
No need to practise the steamy bits, Anne French
The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s romance writers talk to Rachel McAlpine Hazard Press $19.95 ISBN 1 87716136 5 Almost everyone thinks they can be a Mills and Boon author. The formula novel is short (55,000 words these days), the plots…
Limbering up, Anne French
It could be You Sue McCauley Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86962 008 9 The Mathematics of Jane Austen Elizabeth Smither Godwit, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 317 2 Remember Me Linda Burgess Otago University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1 877 13335 3…
Tagged with: Anne French, Elizabeth Smither, Godwit, Issue 31, Linda Burgess, Otago University Press, Spring 1997, Sue McCauley, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
What to do before Next, Anne French
My heart goes swimming: New Zealand love poems Jenny Bornholdt and Greg O’Brien (eds) Godwit, $19.95 ISBN 0908877811 Go Round Power Please James Brown Victoria University Press, $19.95 ISBN 0864732899 The birds do it. The bees do it. So let’s…
Tagged with: Anne French, Godwit, Greg O’Brien, Issue 24, James Brown, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Anne French
Boys’ night out And they ask each other the questions none of them has an answer for, like “Why did she fall for me in the first place if all she wants to do is change me now?” it’s not…
Chinese takeaways, Anne French
Maidenhome Ding Xiaoqi Otago University Press, $24.95 The Chinese Interpreter James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $24.95 Burning Boats: seventeen New Zealand short stories Owen Marshall (ed) Longman Paul, $19.95 We’ve all become experts on China in the past year or two,…
Tagged with: Anne French, Ding Xiaoqi, Hazard Press, Issue 15, James Norcliffe, Longman Paul, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Anne French: A range of slim poses
Stopped and Expounding, poems and pictures Alex Stone ALwayZZ Books (distributed by Brick Row), $19.95 crappings Bill Direen 5 to 12 (P O Box 9925, Wellington) The Subject Graham Lindsay Auckland University Press, $19.95 First books are always interesting. I…
Tagged with: 5 to 12, Alex Stone, ALwayZZ Books, Anne French, Auckland University Press, Bill Direen, Graham Lindsay, Issue 13, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
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