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Diplomat, translator, academic … Ken Ross

Posted on August 26, 2019 by NZ Books

From Cairo To Cassino: A Memoir Of Paddy Costello Dan Davin Cold Hub Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473474485 Paddy Costello’s forte was Russian scholarship. Dan Davin’s was academic publishing. Each acquired other formidable reputations by which they are better known to…

Tagged with: Cold Hub Pres, Dan Davin, Issue 127, Ken Ross, Paddy Costello, Spring 2019
Posted in Memoir, 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…

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

Placing Davin, Lydia Wevers

Posted on June 1, 2008 by NZ Books

The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin’s Southland Stories Janet Wilson (ed) Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 9781877372421 Dan Davin published his last short story, “Gardens of Exile”, in the New Zealand Listener in 1989. In it, the four boys of…

Tagged with: Dan Davin, Issue 81, Janet Wilson, Lydia Wevers, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

Desperate Dan, W H Oliver

Posted on October 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin ed Janet Wilson Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228249 Before I start on the book, I will allow myself a grumble about the cover. This shows in the foreground a highlighted profile of Dan, characteristically…

Tagged with: Dan Davin, Issue 50, Janet Wilson, October 2001, Steele Roberts, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review