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Challenging, touching, persuading, Janet Hughes
How I Get Ready Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 978176562367 The Dangerous Country Of Love And Marriage Amy Leigh Wicks Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869408978 To The Occupant Emma Neale Otago University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781988531687 Judging…
Tagged with: Amy Leigh Wicks, Ashleigh Young, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Issue 127, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Spring 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Something that rises, Ingrid Horrocks
Can You Tolerate This?: Personal Essays Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560769 The title of Wellington poet, blogger, and editor Ashleigh Young’s new collection is a challenge issued in somewhat the same spirit as the title of Hera…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Still (regrettably) relevant, Ashleigh Young
Roll on the Revolution … But Not Till After Xmas!: Selected Feminist Writing Margot Roth Women’s Studies Association of Aotearoa New Zealand / Pae Akoranga Wāhine, $25.00, ISBN 9780473351748 Yesterday, I was idling on Facebook when I should have been…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Issue 116, Margot Roth, Pae Akoranga Wāhine, Summer 2016, Women’s Studies Association of Aotearoa New Zealand
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Dreaming and aching, Ashleigh Young
The Place of Stones Martin Edmond The Holloway Press, $275.00, ISBN 9780986461866 Jumping Ship and Other Essays Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9781877577765 When Martin Edmond picks up a piece of schist from Alaska – in which are embedded…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 103, Martin Edmond, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts, The Holloway Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unbuttoning, Nadine France
Magnificent Moon Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737632 This Hill, All It’s about is Lifting it to a Higher Level Vaughan Gunson Steele Roberts, $20.00, ISBN: 9781877577840 Three Days in a Wishing Well Kerrin P Sharpe Victoria University…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Issue 102, Kerrin P Sharpe, Nadine France, Steele Roberts, Vaughan Gunson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2013
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Withholding and unfolding, Ashleigh Young
Mune: An Autobiography Ian Mune Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517334 Navigation: A Memoir Joy Cowley Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143205715 Searching for Grace: A Woman’s Quest for her True Identity Carol Henderson and Heather Tovey Steele Roberts, $39.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Carol Henderson, Cath Tizard, Craig Potton Publishing, Heather Tovey, Ian Mune, Issue 94, Joy Cowley, Penguin Books, Random House, Steele Roberts, Winter 2011
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Man alone with his words, Ashleigh Young
Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life Sam Hunt Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517051 Hunt didn’t sit down at his typewriter to write this book. He sat down with his publisher and started rambling. Presented here is a one-sided transcript of…