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Poetry and politics, Sarah Sharp
Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist Harry Holland (Dougal McNeill ed) Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493172 Writing during the 1920s, Harry Holland describes the celebration of Burns Night as an event which unites Scots around the world: be the Scot where…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Dougal McNeill, Harry Holland, Issue 117, Robert Burns, Sarah Sharp, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Hipster pulp, Dougal McNeill
New Hokkaido James McNaughton Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 978 086473 9766 James McNaughton’s New Hokkaido is not the “adventure that thrills and disquiets at every turn” promised in its blurb, but it does qualify as a page-turner: I read…
Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Issue 110, James McNaughton, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Constant uncertainty, Dougal McNeill
Journals 1938-1945 Charles Brasch Margaret Scott (transcriber), Andrew Parsloe (annotator) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877372841 Enduring Legacy, the Hocken Library’s 2003 exhibition marking the release of Charles Brasch’s papers from their embargo, was subtitled “patron, poet and collector”. Brasch…
Tagged with: Andrew Parsloe, Autumn 2014, Charles Brasch, Dougal McNeill, Issue 105, Margaret Scott
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
A pleasing oddness, Dougal McNeill
Letters of Frank Sargeson Sarah Shieff (ed) Vintage, $50.00, ISBN 9781869793333 Karatani Kojin, announcing the “end of modern Japanese literature” in 2004, caused some alarm amongst readers, despite Japan’s (for us, and comparatively) philosophically open-minded and expansive literary culture. Weren’t…
Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Issue 103, Sarah Shieff, Spring 2013, Vintage
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Life in the bush, by the bay, Dougal McNeill
Speaking Frankly: The Frank Sargeson Memorial Lectures 2003-2010 Sarah Shieff (ed) Cape Catley, $31.99, ISBN 9781877340277 Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, $162.00, ISBN 9780230277731 It was a…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Cape Catley, Christine Cole Catley, Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Gerri Kimber, Issue 98, Janet Wilson, Katherine Mansfield, Lawrence Jones, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Wells, Sarah Shieff, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2012
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Not all freckles and nostalgia, Dougal McNeill
The Movie May Be Slightly Different Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 97800864736437 Adorno’s term for those last, wild works of Beethoven’s was “late style”, describing a maturity that is for the most part not round, but furrowed…
Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Issue 95, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Being a bard, Dougal McNeill
Selected Poems of James K Baxter Paul Millar (ed) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869404611 Maurice Shadbolt called Baxter “a Bard, our only one”. It’s unusual now to read the term used without irony or self-consciously distancing care; but, with…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dougal McNeill, Issue 91, James K Baxter, Paul Millar, Spring 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Had experience, missed meaning, Dougal McNeill
Plume of Bees: A Literary Biography of C K Stead Judith Dell Panny Cape Catley, $39.99, ISBN 9781877340239 Modernism, born in the era of wars and revolutions, grew on contradiction. Centred in London, none of its greatest writers were English.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, C K Stead, Cape Catley, Dougal McNeill, Issue 89, Judith Dell Panny
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Steadfast, Dougal McNeill
Collected Poems 1951-2006 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404185 The American critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the early 1960s of his experience teaching what we would now call modernist literature, felt unsettled by the ease with which…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, C K Stead, Dougal McNeill, Issue 85
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
From Pine Hill to elsewhere, Dougal McNeill
Geography for the Lost Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869403874 Made for Weather Kay McKenzie Cooke University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 9781877372490 84-484 Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735584 Cold Snack Janet Charman Auckland University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dougal McNeill, Geoff Cochrane, Issue 81, Janet Charman, Kapka Kassabova, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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