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Combing the romantic inheritance, Iain Sharp
Lives of the Poets John Newton Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736284 Goya Rules Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 9780473160401 Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing from Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404581 When…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2011, Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Iain Sharp, Issue 93, John Newton, Murray Edmond, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Obituary — Harvey McQueen
Harvey McQueen 1934-2010 Harvey McQueen, who died in Wellington on December 25, was a poet, anthologist, reviewer, memoirist, educational journalist and author, past president of PEN (now New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc)), and literary gardener – a…
Cloud obscured, Harvey McQueen
Beyond the Scene: Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Janet Stephenson, Mick Abbott and Jacinta Ruru (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372810 I’m clear about the origins of my identity. Banks Peninsula is my heartland. My…
Tagged with: Harvey McQueen, Issue 92, Jacinta Ruru, Janet Stephenson, Mick Abbott, Otago University Press, Summer 2010
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Trail-blazing, Harvey McQueen
Helen Clark: A Political Life Denis Welch Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143202417 I admire Helen Clark, and I was pleased to be asked to review this book. Unlike David Lange, who flashed meteor-like across the parliamentary firmament, Clark became a…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Harvey McQueen, Helen Clark, Issue 88, Penguin Books, Summer 2009
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The Bassett version, Harvey McQueen
Working With David Michael Bassett Hachette Livre, $59.99, ISBN 9781869710941 Working With David is a dogmatic and humourless book about a man who, even in adversity, revelled in laughter. Beginning with clear praise – “at the peak of his career…
Tagged with: Hachette Livre, Harvey McQueen, Issue 84, Michael Bassett, Summer 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Standing places of the heart, Harvey McQueen
Heartlands: New Zealand Historians Write about Where History Happened Kynan Gentry and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019929 History used to be about kings, queens, politicians, diplomats, generals, wars, revolutions, parliaments, laws and treaties. My early schooling followed the…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harvey McQueen, Issue 79, Kynan Gentry, Penguin, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Gardening as rebellion, Brian Turner
This Piece of Earth: A Life in My New Zealand Garden Harvey McQueen Awa Press, $34.95, ISBN 0958253838 Reading Harvey McQueen’s account of a year’s engagement with his garden has confirmed what I’ve thought for a long time: you have…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Turner, Harvey McQueen, Issue 70, Winter 2005
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A matter of balance, Harvey McQueen
Spirit Abroad: A Second Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse ed Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts and Mike Grimshaw Godwit, $39.95, ISBN 1869621115 Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry ed Robin Law and Heather Murray University of Otago Press, $39.95,…
Tagged with: Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Harvey McQueen, Heather Murray, Issue 68, June 2005, Mike Grimshaw, Otago University Press, Paul Morris, Robin Law
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
From the edges, Anna Livesey
It Was a Tuesday Morning Peter Olds Hazard Press, $25.00, ISBN 187727075X Natural Anthem Leonard Lambert HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473098032 Recessional Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0476002710 Peter Olds published work in the iconoclastic literary magazine Freed in the late…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 67, Leonard Lambert, Peter Olds, Spring 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Across the great divide, Harvey McQueen
Apes Road: Poems Since 1997 Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877270245 Working Voices John O’Connor & Eric Mould Hallard Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864770480 In his essay “The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground”, Australian Les Murray explores a myth: We tend nowadays…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Eric Mould, Hallard Press, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, Issue 65, John O’Connor, Rob Jackaman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review