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Listening for the voice, Janet Hughes
Coming to it: Selected Poems Sam Hunt Potton and Burton, $30.00, ISBN 9780947503802 Poeta: Selected and New Poems Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988531281 Watching for the Wingbeat: New and Selected Poems Pat White Cold Hub Press, $40.00,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Cilla McQueen, Issue 125, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Pat White, Potton and Burton, Sam Hunt
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poetic truths, Helen Heath
In a Slant Light: A Poet’s Memoir Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578717 When I read Elizabeth Knox’s personal essays The Love School, in 2008, I finally realised that a writer’s past is whatever they say it is.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Cilla McQueen, Helen Heath, Issue 117, Otago University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Strip-mines and elegies, Mark Houlahan
Slip Stream Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404628 Crumple Vivienne Plumb Seraph Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473177171 Time of the Icebergs David Eggleton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578021 The Radio Room Cilla McQueen Otago University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, Issue 95, Mark Houlahan, Otago University Press, Paula Green, Seraph Press, Spring 2011, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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
Peeling away from the margins Janet Wilson
Red Leaves Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869403460 Fire-penny Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372066 Resistance Meg Campbell Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $16.95, ISBN 1869420578 This bouquet of verse demonstrates the flourishing talent of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Diana Bridge, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Issue 72, Janet Wilson, Meg Campbell, Otago University Press, Summer 2005
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A walk on the wild side, Cilla McQueen
Wild Anne French Auckland University Press, $31.95, ISBN 186940310X Travel and other compulsions Heather McPherson Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $18.00, ISBN 1869420349 Catullus for Children Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869403088 Bluff’s main street was recently relieved…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne French, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2004, Cilla McQueen, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Heather McPherson, Issue 65
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Taking poetry for a walk, John Allison
Millionaire’s Shortbread Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Kerry Hines University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 187727643X Len & other poems Jo Thorpe Steele Roberts, $$19.95, ISBN 187722894X Soundings Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276383 I once…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Issue 62, Jo Thorpe, John Allison, Kerry Hines, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Mary-Jane Duffy, Otago University Press, Steele Roberts, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Indigenous voices, colonial language, Cilla McQueen
Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English ed Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402731 Captain Cook in the Underworld Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402812 “Before had England even…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Issue 60, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Nudging the unsuitable, Cilla McQueen
How To Make A Million Emma Neale Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 18692100X The Unfortunate Singer Rachel Bush Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734360 My reading’s re-creation, via language, of another poet’s perceptions, thoughts, aural sensibility and verbal skill, allows me a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cilla McQueen, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 57, Rachel Bush, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Subliminal euphonies, Cilla McQueen
Realia Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734204 deep down musical hearts beat for no reason no apparent reason (“Beats”) I like the sound of Kate Camp. She has an ear for a harmonic beat within the…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, December 2001, Issue 51, Kate Camp, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review