It could be You Sue McCauley Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86962 008 9 The Mathematics of Jane Austen Elizabeth Smither Godwit, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 317 2 Remember Me Linda Burgess Otago University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1 877 13335 3…
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Limbering up, Anne French
Tagged with: Anne French, Elizabeth Smither, Godwit, Issue 31, Linda Burgess, Otago University Press, Spring 1997, Sue McCauley, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Never mind the quality, Heather Murray
The Journal Box Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.95 ISBN 1869401425 Long an admirer of Elizabeth Smither’s poetry and encouraged by a dustjacket claim that The Journal Box contains “marvellous pieces of writing … comparable in quality to the autobiographical…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Heather Murray, Issue 24
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Elizabeth Smither
Greater than the parts, Janet Wilson
Mr Fish and other stories Elizabeth Smither Macindoe, $24.95 Elizabeth Smither’s second collection of short fiction gathered from stories published in recent years, displays at first sight the unfussed, unfazable and whimsical qualities for which her poetry has often been…
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Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 15, Janet Wilson, Macindoe, Spring 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
What gives it meaning? Anne French
The Tudor Style Elizabeth Smither, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Guardians, not Angels Stephen Oliver, Hazard Press, $19.95 Distances Rob Jackaman, Hazard Press, $19.95 Days Beside Water Gregory O’Brien, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Malachi Gregory O’Brien, Little Esther Books, $13.00, available…
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Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Gregory O’Brien, Hazard Press, Issue 11, Little Esther Books, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Gee Whizz, Elizabeth Smither
Going West Maurice Gee, Viking, 1992, $39.95 Rem tene, verba sequentur – I have it, like an archivist, on a filched catalogue card. For the novel: ‘Grasp the subject and the words will follow’. For the poem, the reverse: Verba tene, res…
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Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 9, Maurice Gee, Viking, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Can you believe what they say? New novels and recent history, John Needham:
Besides Myself Russell Haley Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Night at the Embassy Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, 1990, $24.95 Newlands Gary Langford Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Like a lot of middle-aged men, Midge, the out-of-work hero-narrator of Russell Haley’s latest novel,…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Elizabeth Smither, Gary Langford, Issue 1, John Needham, Penguin, Russell Haley
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Four journals, Elizabeth Smither
What does it mean to have an ape in charge of a bar in Amsterdam? I read in my Journal of the 33rd Year. I am attending a seminar on French novelists: Gide, Camus, Maurois, Malraux, Mauriac. The lecturer, an…
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