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A complicated relationship, Thom Conroy
The Ice Shelf Anne Kennedy Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562015 What role does a book invite me to accept as its reader? I need not comply with a book’s request, of course, but I’m bound to recognise or, at…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The mess we’re in, Anne Kennedy
Lifting Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561025 In the opening scene of Lifting, Amy, a department store detective, is pursuing a “Person of Interest” (POI) – a ubi-quitous, parka-wearing woman who is probably about to nick the wallets…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Damien Wilkins, Issue 119, Spring 2017, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Mending and pairing, Heather Roberts
The Writing Class Stephanie Johnson Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9781775532590 The Last Days of the National Costume Anne Kennedy Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781743313862 Two writers of a similar age and stage in the development of their writing careers,…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Anne Kennedy, Heather Roberts, Issue 104, Random House, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Memories, Möbius strips and Morse code, Elizabeth Crayford
Common Land Lynn Davidson Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737601 The Darling North Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869405939 Birds of Clay Aleksandra Lane Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864737588 “Common Land is possibly the most successful mix…
Tagged with: Aleksandra Lane, Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 99, Lynn Davidson, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unearthly mapmaking, Anna Jackson
Dreamhunter Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 0732281938 The Time of the Giants Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403428 Maddigan’s Fantasia Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869505611 Maddigan’s Fantasia opens with Garland Maddigan’s note to herself, “Written down things…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 70, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Eczema and ampersands, Janet Hughes
Sing-song Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869402952 Electric Yachts Tony Beyer Puriri Press, $26, ISBN 0908943253 Nonsense Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734514 Imagine a sequence of 80-odd poems centred on a case of eczema. That’s…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Janet Hughes, Nick Ascroft, Puriri Press, Tony Beyer, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The sadness of the incomplete, Elizabeth Caffin
A Boy and his Uncle Anne Kennedy Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33036057 4 Leave Before You Go Emily Perkins Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33037204 1 In the opening pages of both these novels is that journey we all are heir…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Elizabeth Caffin, Emily Perkins, Issue 35, Picador
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Map of the Heart, Lee Wallace
Musica Ficta Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, $24.95 Now, to the scandal of men, women are prophesying. So runs the epigraph of Anne Kennedy’s Musica Ficta, though quite what scandal the novel involves remains a puzzle. In so far…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Lee Wallace, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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