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Not enough clash and clang, Anna Livesey
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…
Tagged with: Alison Wong, Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Chris Price, David Howard, Issue 77, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Sharpening the blade, Anna Livesey
Someone else’s life Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869403045 Rat Tickling James Norcliffe Sudden Valley Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958209146 How To Occupy Ourselves David Howard and Fiona Pardington HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473-094363 Someone else’s life is a sort…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, David Howard, Fiona Pardington, HeadworX, Issue 62, James Norcliffe, Kapka Kassabova, Sudden Valley Press, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Controlled randomness, Kai Jensen
Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000 David Howard Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228591 I associate volumes of Collected Poems with poetic fame – long sequence of small books, most now out of print, requiring a full collection to satisfy the demands of…
Tagged with: David Howard, Issue 50, Kai Jensen, October 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – David Howard
Now here Family snaps in leatherette albums prove “nothing lasts forever” (thanks Mum) as shadows crawl on their stomachs, the sun sinks in the West you never won. Looming into the tedium waiters understand the way nostrils understand incense,…
Being elsewhere, Janet Hughes
Landscape with Lines Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 1869401522 Antipodes Michael Jackson Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 1869401581 Surprising the Slug Bernard Brown Cape Catley, $17.95 ISBN 0 908561504 Celebrating Stones Nadine LaHatte Puriri Press, $25.00 ISBN 0…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernard Brown, Bill Direen, Cape Catley, David Howard, Diana Bridge, Issue 24, Janet Hughes, Michael Jackson, Nadine LaHatte, Nag’s Head, Puriri Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poets from the Hazard Press and AUP, Max Anderson
In the First Place David Howard, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95 Slow Passes Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, 1991, $24.95 Karitane Postcards Rob Allan, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95 Return to the Earth Graham Lindsay, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1992, $19.95…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, David Howard, Graham Lindsay, Hazard Press, Issue 5, Max Anderson, Mike Minehan, Rob Allan, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review