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THE BOOK OF CHURL I Churl stamps through the swamp. Wet scowl, muddy shins, leather sandals chafing. Bile. He eyes the shaggy blacksmith’s wife but she will not, will not have him. So he stomps back to the kine, who…
The Blind Singer Chris Price Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404338 Vivid Familiar Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735980 The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap Michael Harlow Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404307 Pocket Edition Geoff Cochrane Victoria…
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Cup Alison Wong Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 1877338761 The Joy of a Ming Vase Ruth Dallas Otago University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372307 Brief Lives Chris Price Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403630 The Word Went Round David Howard Otago University…
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Husk Chris Price Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402669 I suppose it’s as true to say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its title as by its cover. Certainly, when it comes to some otherwise admirable collections of New…
In Present Company (1966), Charles Brasch wrote: A new society like our own, still undefined, un‑characterised, unidentified, with no values quite settled and no common ends generally acknowledged, will cast about vainly to know what it thinks and believes until…