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Issue 53 | June 2002
Volume 12 | Number 2 | Issue 53 | June 2002 Anne French: Lauris Edmond, An Autobiography; Selected Poems 1975-2000 Editorial Peter Wells: Dennis McEldowney, The World Regained; Vanya Lowry, From the Wisteria Bush Louise White: “Rituals” (poem) Nicholas…
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…
Variations on the familiar, Lawrence Jones
Ellie and the Shadow Man Maurice Gee Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0141004177 Responses to Maurice Gee’s Ellie and the Shadow Man, his fourteenth adult novel and his twenty-sixth book, will probably vary between the extremes marked by two of my…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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
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…
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
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
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Elsie Locke, Hugh Laracy
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