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Poem – Chris Orsman

Posted on August 31, 2016 by NZ Books

Memory  Harbour (i.m. Pvt. Robert Brownlee: obit. 14/vi/1916) Whatever challenge is carelessly thrown down there are those who will always soldier on when strangers loom and cast their shadow. It’s dead low-water on Memory Harbour: a crab patrol sidles across…

Tagged with: Chris Orsman, Issue 115, Spring 2016
Posted in Poem

Good returns, Cilla McQueen

Posted on June 1, 2010 by NZ Books

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

Endurance and beyond, Chris Orsman

Posted on June 13, 1999 by NZ Books

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 in…

Tagged with: Chris Orsman, Hazard Press, Issue 38, John Bell Thomson
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review

Of ice-blinks, blackbirds and ikebana, John Allison

Posted on August 4, 1998 by NZ Books

Homelight Nigel Brown, Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman Pemmican Press, $12.00 ISBN 0 47305149 4 13 Ways Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47304881 7 Natsukashii Ingrid Horrocks Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47305139 7 Black South Chris Orsman Pemmican…

Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Harry Ricketts, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 34, John Allison, Nigel Brown, Pemmican Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Mary, Marist, Catholic and Kiwis, Paul Morris

Posted on June 4, 1998 by NZ Books

God‘s Farthest Outpost: A History of Catholics in New Zealand Michael King Viking, $49.95 ISBN 0 67087 652 6 Church in the World: Statements on Social issues 1979-1997 by New Zealand Catholic Bishops, compiled by Chris Orsman and Peter Zwart…

Tagged with: Catholic Office for Social Justice, Chris Orsman, Dunmore Press, Issue 33, Michael King, Paul Morris, Peter Donovan, Peter Zwart, Viking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion

Poem — Chris Orsman

Posted on August 8, 1996 by NZ Books

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…

Tagged with: Chris Orsman, Issue 24
Posted in Poem

Different qualities, Charles Croot

Posted on December 22, 1994 by NZ Books

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…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Blue Black Press / Bent Publishing, Charles Croot, Chris Orsman, Issue 16, L E Scott, Lynda Earle, Summer 1994, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review