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How I Get Ready Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 978176562367 The Dangerous Country Of Love And Marriage Amy Leigh Wicks Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869408978 To The Occupant Emma Neale Otago University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781988531687 Judging…
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Ashleigh Young,
Auckland University Press,
Emma Neale,
Issue 127,
Janet Hughes,
Otago University Press,
Spring 2019,
Victoria University Press
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Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems Philip Temple and Emma Neale (eds) Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780947522469 New Zealand poetry in English has a long and complex tradition of politically-charged work: from colonial balladeers, through 20th-century heavyweights like Allen…
Billy Bird Emma Neale Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143770053 Emma Neale’s sixth novel, Billy Bird, probes the life of a troubled family – Liam, Iris and eight-year-old Billy. They are all reeling from a series of tragedies that have befallen their…
Work Sarah Jane Barnett, Hue & Cry Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473333331 Tender Machines Emma Neale Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927322345 Soundings of Hellas John Davidson Steele Roberts, $20.00, ISBN 9781927242957 Looking out to Sea Kevin Ireland Steele Roberts, $20.00,…
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Emma Neale,
Hue & Cry Press,
Issue 114,
Janet Hughes,
John Davidson,
Kevin Ireland,
Otago University Press,
Sarah Jane Barnett,
Steele Roberts,
Winter 2016
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Poetry,
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Dear Neil Roberts Airini Beautrais Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739735 How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes Chris Tse Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869408183 Both collections under review here act as witness to politically charged historic…
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
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Albert Wendt,
Auckland University Press,
Emma Neale,
Geoff Cochrane,
Hugh Roberts,
Issue 100,
James Brown,
Otago University Press,
Summer 2012,
Victoria University Press
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Travesty Mike Johnson (graphic art, Darren Sheehan) Titus Books, $39.00, ISBN 9781877441134 Fosterling Emma Neale Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869794859 Wulf Hamish Clayton Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143206491 Like many futuristic nightmares, the naming of the nihilistic Gaia…
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Darren Sheehan,
Emma Neale,
Hamish Clayton,
Issue 94,
Mike Johnson,
Murray Bramwell,
Penguin Books,
Titus Books,
Vintage,
Winter 2011
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Literature,
Review
Satellite Our six-year-old watches me dress as we talk about the planets, where rockets have landed, where people can’t go, how the surface of some distant Earth is unknowable at the moment and he frowns and stares with a mathematician’s…
Museum of Lost Days Raewyn Alexander Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 9781869421045 My Iron Spine Helen Rickerby HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 9780473135966 Beauty of the Badlands Cliff Fell Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735836 Get Some Sonja Yelich Auckland…
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Cliff Fell,
Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop,
Emma Neale,
HeadworX,
Helen Rickerby,
Issue 86,
Raewyn Alexander,
Sonja Yelich,
Victoria University Press,
Winter 2009
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