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Keeping it in the family, Tina Shaw
Necessary Secrets Greg McGee Upstart Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781988516639 Loving Sylvie Elizabeth Smither Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781988547114 Two recently-published novels explore inter-generational stories, yet there couldn’t be two more different treatments. (more…)…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Elizabeth Smither, Greg McGee, Issue 127, Spring 2019, Tina Shaw, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Paradoxes of knowledge and knowing, Nicholas Wright
page.stone.leaf Dinah Hawken (drawings by John Edgar) The Holloway Press ISBN 9780986461880 Ruby Duby Du Elizabeth Smither (Kathryn Madill illus) The Cold Hub Press ISBN 9780473268305 Gathering Evidence Caoilinn Hughes Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739261 On opening Dinah Hawken’s latest…
Tagged with: Caoilinn Hughes, Dinah Hawken, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 107, John Edgar, Kathryn Madill, Nicholas Wright, Spring 2014, The Cold Hub Press, The Holloway Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Late style, Michael Hulse
The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 103, Michael Hulse, Peter Bland, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Raw surfaces of a mind, Elizabeth Smither
Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings Mary Edmond-Paul (ed) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781877578212 It’s natural in a densely-packed book to look at the photographs first. Robin Hyde was intensely interested in houses and rooms and their…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 99, Mary Edmond-Paul, Otago University Press, Robin Hyde, Spring 2012
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Putting yourself on the line, Christine Johnson
The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404765 How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging Pat White Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736383 “[A] memoir is how one remembers one’s own…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Christine Johnston, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 95, Pat White, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Tea and sympathy, Paula Morris
Lola Elizabeth Smither Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143203650 Elizabeth Smither’s last novel was called Different Kinds of Pleasure, and its title offers a clue to the approach she takes in her fiction, and also to what she expects of her…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 91, Paula Morris, Penguin Books, Spring 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Restaurant, stars We had dined; we came out. The stars were above, high and bright. ‘Look …’ someone started but we started the car instead. In their autumn positions the stars – one noticed the displacement of a constellation –…
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Naming a telescope (for David Hill) What to call your new telescope? Presuming like a ship it must be female though its shape suggests otherwise and the way you aim it definitely male the fiddling to set it up,…
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Pebbles at the window, Elizabeth Smither
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