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More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bugger the box-office, Laurie Atkinson
The Little Theatre: golden years of the New Zealand stage Glyn Strange Clerestory Press, $45.00, ISBN 0958370699 A Theatre in the House: The Careys’ Globe Rosalie Carey Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877133663 If British theatre, as Richard Eyre and…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Clerestory Press, Glyn Strange, Issue 49, Laurie Atkinson, Otago University Press, Rosalie Carey
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Jo Thorpe
The Tate Modern (found in Time magazine) As power stations go, Bankside was a looker a hulking lunker with tapering chimney and squat symmetry enhanced by groups of windows striping its entire height. Also, it has size – which modern…
Issue 49 | August 2001
Volume 11 | Number 3 | Issue 49 | August 2001 Barry Gustafson: Michael Bassett & Michael King, Tomorrow Comes the Song. A Life of Peter Fraser Editorial Correspondence Kim Hill: Carole van Grondelle, Angel of the Anzacs: The Life…
More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson
Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, HeadworX, Issue 49, L E Scott, Mary Macpherson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Keyboard practice, C K Stead
C K Stead takes a new look at Janet Frame’s The Pocket Mirror. Janet Frame’s The Pocket Mirror (published by Braziller in New York in 1967 and here by Pegasus in 1968) has the appearance, not of a nervous first…
Editorial – Issue 49
Two cheers for biography Biography doesn’t always get a good press. It has been Said to have “added a new terror to death”, while Oscar Wilde remarked that “[e]very great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas…