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A critical lamp in a dark world, Helen Watson White
Charles Brasch: Journals 1958-1973 Charles Brasch, selected by Peter Simpson Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781988531144 “How many existences one leads at once,” wrote Dunedin poet, critic, patron and Landfall editor Charles Brasch in 1958: I am here with LF…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Charles Brasch, Helen Watson White, Issue 125, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Grudging nationalist, Mark Williams
Charles Brasch: Journals 1945-1957 Peter Simpson (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781927322284 I approached this book rather in the spirit of someone visiting a civic monument to a figure august and admired, but obscurely known. In the late 1980s,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Charles Brasch, Issue 121, Mark Williams, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Constant uncertainty, Dougal McNeill
Journals 1938-1945 Charles Brasch Margaret Scott (transcriber), Andrew Parsloe (annotator) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877372841 Enduring Legacy, the Hocken Library’s 2003 exhibition marking the release of Charles Brasch’s papers from their embargo, was subtitled “patron, poet and collector”. Brasch…
Tagged with: Andrew Parsloe, Autumn 2014, Charles Brasch, Dougal McNeill, Issue 105, Margaret Scott
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Good old immortal artists, Vincent O’Sullivan
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Charles Brasch, Denis Harold, Holloway Press, Issue 93, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
A slippery no-man, Owen Marshall
Enduring legacy – Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector (ed) Donald Kerr University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library, $39.95, ISBN 1877276650 Several years ago at a reunion of those who had held Otago University’s Robert…
Tagged with: Charles Brasch, Donald Kerr, Issue 63, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 2003, University of Otago Library
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Excisions, Alan Roddick
Posted in Comment