The Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand Peter Beatson and Diane Beatson Sociology Department, Massey University, $59.95, ISBN 0 908665 83 0 Another 100 New Zealand Artists Warwick Brown Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 0 908877 74 9 Hotere — out the black…
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A slight angle to the universe, David Eggleton
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, David Eggleton, Diane Beatson, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hotere, Issue 29, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Warwick Brown
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Site-specific ghetto-centricities, David Eggleton
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 310 5 Alan Duff makes good copy: he’s a phenomenon. If he didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him. Duff, the Hemingwayesque bare-knuckle bruiser from the school…
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Tagged with: Alan Duff, David Eggleton, Issue 26, Vintage, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Balm for TV’s dissolution, David Eggleton
Lands and Deeds Gregory O’Brien Godwit Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 908877 68 4 Timeless Land Graham Sydney, Brian Turner and Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 0 9583405 5 2 100 New Zealand Paintings Warwick Brown Godwit Press, $75.00, ISBN…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Brian Turner, David Eggleton, Godwit Press, Graham Sydney, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 25, Longacre Press, Owen Marshall, Warwick Brown
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Boxing the compass, David Eggleton
How Things Are Adrienne Jansen, Harry Ricketts, J C Sturm and Meg Campbell Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brasell Press, $21.95 ISBN 0 958351341 four Damien Wilkins, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins Published by the authors, no price given,…
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Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Bill Manhire, Damien Wilkins, Daphne Brasell Press, David Eggleton, Elizabeth Knox, Emily Perkins, Harry Ricketts, Issue 24, J C Sturm, Meg Campbell, Whitireia Publishing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Heaped atomic details, Alan Loney
Empty Orchestra David Eggleton Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 186940 1271 When David Eggleton’s Empty Orchestra arrived in my letterbox, it was the fourth book I had received that day. Beside it was another sent to me by a friend,…
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Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 22
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — David Eggleton
Away from home, David Eggleton
First and Last Songs Alan Riach Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 869401220 Photographs Albert Wendt Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 869401220 The notes at the back refer to quotations from Robert Burns’ Poems and Songs, and on the…
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Tagged with: Alan Riach, Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 20, Summer 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Ruminative chin music, David Eggleton
Auto/Biographies Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland University Press, $19.95 This is Kendrick Smithyman’s twelfth book of poetry. It continues and restates the themes of his recent collections, Stories About Wooden Keyboards and Are you Going to the Pictures? to the point of recycling ideas and…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 9, Kendrick Smithyman, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
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Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion