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Wrenching love, Harry Ricketts
Boundaries: People and Places of Central Otago Brian Turner (Steve Calveley photographer) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775538318 Early in this composite prose-poetry miscellany about Central Otago, Brian Turner quotes with approval from the English poet Edward Thomas’s “The Mountain Chapel”: “When…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 118, Steve Calveley, Winter 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Truth eating, Harry Ricketts
Inside Outside Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736536 Coming Ashore Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 9781877577499 Fly Boy Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 97818544125 “I seek to honour/the truculent/genesis of living,” states…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Harry Ricketts, Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Peter Bland, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Brian Turner
Beachfront So much advice coming your way like wind-blown leaves. ‘Never give up until you see indifference,’ one says; another, a woman recently split from her husband ‘for no good reason’, tells you ‘few women ignore persistence, so keep it…
Moving deeper, John Horrocks
Mirabile Dictu Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 9781869404406 The Lustre Jug Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736086 Just This Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735911 One can expect that these new collections by three…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bernadette Hall, Brian Turner, Issue 89, John Horrocks, Michele Leggott, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Zero waste, Martin Edmond
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany Brian Turner Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621421 Near the beginning of the seventh of the 34 essays in this book, the 16-year-old Brian Turner, full of teenage angst and contemplating suicide, is sitting…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Godwit, Issue 84, Martin Edmond, Summer 2008
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Brian Turner
High Windows If you want to compliment someone call him grounded. If you want to do him a favour pray that there’s more order than chaos, more love than hatred and resentment in his life, that transfiguration and redemption are…
The sins of our fathers, Brian Turner
Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Geoff Park Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734573 In his excellent address to the New Zealand Landscape conference in 2003, included in Theatre Country under the title “A Moment in History”, Geoff Park…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Geoff Park, Issue 75, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Despatches from the rugby jungle, Paul Thomas
Inside Anton Oliver with Brian Turner Hodder Moa, $49.99, ISBN 1869589912 The Winter Game: Rediscovering the Passion of Rugby Todd R Nicholls Mainstream Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1840189150 The New Zealand book trade has long had a vested interest in demythologising…
Tagged with: Anton Oliver, Brian Turner, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Mainstream Publishing, Paul Thomas, Summer 2005, Todd R Nicholls
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Hymns, history and haemorrhoids, Janet Hughes
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $22.00, ISBN 1869403495 Afternoon of an Evening Train Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $21.99, ISBN 9864735014 Oooooo…..!!! Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877338699 Footfall Brian Turner Godwit,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Turner, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hone Tuwhare, Ian Wedde, Issue 71, Janet Hughes, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2005, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Gardening as rebellion, Brian Turner
This Piece of Earth: A Life in My New Zealand Garden Harvey McQueen Awa Press, $34.95, ISBN 0958253838 Reading Harvey McQueen’s account of a year’s engagement with his garden has confirmed what I’ve thought for a long time: you have…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Turner, Harvey McQueen, Issue 70, Winter 2005
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
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