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Raw edges of wonder, Janet Hughes
The Hill of Wool Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736529 Thicket Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9871869404826 Aloe Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 98718669404413 The Leaf Ride Dinah Hawken Victoria University…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Diana Bridge, Dinah Hawken, Issue 96, Janet Hughes, Jenny Bornholdt, Summer 2011, Victoria University Press
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
More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The new restlessness, Sarah Quigley
Settler Dreaming Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734247 Porcelain Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402642 The death of Alan Curnow last year seemed to call for some kind of reassessment of our national poetry, and some…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Diana Bridge, Issue 54, Sarah Quigley, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Passages to India John O’Connor
Into India Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 357 7 The Girls on the Wall Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 209 X Geoff Cochrane’s Into India is divided into two sections. The first…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Diana Bridge, Geoff Cochrane, Issue 40, John O’Connor, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Another country, another time, Diana Bridge
Palaces in the Sky: a year among Tibetans Ted Reynolds Godwit Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 1 86962 000 3 You’re a Brave Man: a Kiwi odyssey in the Himalayas Elizabeth Harding Random House, $27.95, ISBN 1 86941 302 4 Ted Reynolds’…
Tagged with: Diana Bridge, Elizabeth Harding, Godwit Publishing, Issue 31, Random House, Spring 1997, Ted Reynolds
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Diana Bridge
Chrysanthemum I’m talking to the white bunched head of a chrysanthemum when you arrive. The way the sunlight lops off half its hair is less of a mystery than you, leaning against sandstone, bisected by the string under your shirt.…
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
Hyde and seeking China, Diana Bridge
New Zealand Women in China Tom Newnham Graphic Publications, $19.95 ISBN 0473030055 The title of Tom Newnham’s book, New Zealand Women in China, comes in the colours of the Chinese flag. The subtext is provided by Rewi Alley: “Unsung Kiwi…
Tagged with: Diana Bridge, Graphic Publications, Issue 22, Tom Newnham
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
An offshore voice, Diana Bridge
In March this year Diana Bridge gave a talk at a Commonwealth studies conference at the University of Rajasthan at Jaipur in India. The talk was “an attempt to let an interested but undernourished academic audience hear some of our…
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