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One of us, David Groves

Posted on November 29, 2019 by NZ Books

Karl Wolfskehl: A Poet In Exile
Friedrich Voit
Cold Hub Press, $40.00,
ISBN 9780473476694

We have many short accounts in English of aspects of the life, character and writings of Karl Wolfskehl. Friedrich Voit now gives us a biography, in the set of three books published by Cold Hub Press, the first being Andrew Paul Wood’s translation of a selection of Wolfskehl’s poems in the bilingual edition Drei Welten/Three Worlds (reviewed in NZRB Summer 2016) and the second Poetry And Exile, a selection of letters splendidly translated and edited by Nelson Wattie.

Tagged with: Cold Hub Press, David Groves, Friedrich Voit, Issue 128, Karl Wolfskehl, Summer 2019
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Shivers of emotion, Tom McLean

Posted on September 11, 2018 by NZ Books

Dan Davin: A Field Officer’s Notebook: Selected Poems
Robert McLean (ed)
Cold Hub Press, $30.00,
ISBN 9780473430689

Robert McLean here presents an edited selection of Dan Davin’s poetry, collecting a body of verse seen as having value in itself rather than attempting a scholarly edition or detailed exegesis. A brief contextualising introduction emphasises the influence of WWII on Davin.

Tagged with: Cold Hub Press, Dan Davin, Issue 123, Robert McLean, Spring 2018, Tom McLean
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

A late flowering, Peter Russell

Posted on December 7, 2016 by NZ Books

Karl Wolfskehl: Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems: German and English Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood (trans) Cold Hub Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780473358679 This book is a triumph: a triumph of the translator’s art, and a triumph in…