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Neither here nor there, Jane Westaway
Here Comes Another Vital Moment Diane Brown Godwit, $25.00, ISBN 1869621190 News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 0864735324 Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia Martin Edmond Addenda, $44.95, ISBN 1921037083 According to…
Tagged with: Addenda, Diane Brown, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Jane Westaway, Martin Edmond, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Sacred and profane, John Horrocks
The Red Tram C K Stead Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869403304 The Merino Princess Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734921 Learning to Lie Together Diane Brown Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 1869621093 Trams. For me the tram is part…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, Bernadette Hall, C K Stead, Diane Brown, Godwit, Issue 69, John Horrocks, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
A million miles from Palmerston North, Linley Boniface
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific Graeme Lay Awa Press, $29.95, ISBN 0958250901 Liars and Lovers: A Travel Memoir Diane Brown Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869416147 As a child, I used to read adventure stories featuring…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Diane Brown, Graeme Lay, Issue 66, Linley Boniface, Vintage, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Our biggest brashest city, Diane Brown
Auckland before the Harbour Bridge Graham Stewart Grantham House, $69.95, ISBN 1869340868. Almighty Auckland? ed Ian Carter, David Craig and Steve Matthewman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694520 History is big these days but it wasn’t when I was young. My…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, David Craig, Diane Brown, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Graham Stewart, Grantham House, Ian Carter, Issue 65, Steve Matthewman
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
But is it a poem? Harvey McQueen
8 Stages of Grace Diane Brown Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415256 The blurb to Sarah Quigley’s latest volume of poems says: people often ask her if there’s a connection between her prose and her poetry but she doesn’t think so. There…
Tagged with: Diane Brown, Harvey McQueen, Issue 59, Spring 2002, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tongue-twister, Susan Budd
if the tongue fits Diane Brown Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877178 47 0 A deliciously original, gloriously hectic first novel by accomplished poet Diane Brown, if the tongue fits takes the well-worn theme of 40-something women in search of…
Obscurity v the life principle, Kim Worthington
Envoy Alan Loney and Mark Wills Puriri Press, $28.00, ISBN 0 908943 13 x On Virgin Skin Gay Linden Sandpiper Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 473 04187 1 Before the Divorce We Go to Disneyland Diane Brown Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Autumn 1997, Diane Brown, Elizabeth Crayford, Gay Linden, Graphic Press, Issue 29, J C Sturm, Mark Wills, Puriri Press, Sandpiper Press, Steele Roberts, Tandem Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review