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Good returns, Cilla McQueen
Table Talk Kevin Ireland Cape Catley, $25.99, ISBN 9781877340246 Africa Alistair Paterson Puriri Press, $36.00, ISBN 9780908943364 The Lakes of Mars Chris Orsman Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404086 The Worm in the Tequila Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00,…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Cape Catley, Chris Orsman, Cilla McQueen, Geoff Cochrane, Ian Wedde, Issue 90, Kevin Ireland, Puriri Press, Victoria University Press, Winter 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Endurance and beyond, Chris Orsman
Shackleton’s Captain: a Biography of Frank Worsley John Bell Thomson Hazard Press, $49.95, ISBN 1 877161 40 3 In April this year a major exhibition, entitled “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition”, opened at the American Museum of Natural History…
Tagged with: Chris Orsman, Hazard Press, Issue 38, John Bell Thomson
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Chris Orsman
The Ice Navigators A sailor’s language does not desert them. They find themselves at sea again and sense an ancient motion in the frozen crests and troughs of the mineral ocean. The Owner talks of port and starboard and thinks…
Different qualities, Charles Croot
Ornamental Gorse Chris Orsman Victoria University Press, $19.95 The Persistent Levitator Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $19.95 Honeypants Lynda Earle Auckland University Press, $19.95 Black Family Letters from Boston L E Scott Blue Black Press / Bent Publishing, $15.95 What…