The Ballad of Fifty-one Bill Sewell HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473092540 A couple of years ago I wrote a favourable review of Bill Sewell’s long poem Erebus (1999). He rang and thanked me after he read it; part of what he…
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In command of his talent, Lydia Wevers
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, HeadworX, Issue 58, Lydia Wevers, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Referencing the self, James Norcliffe
Storyteller Simon Williamson HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473086220 Boat People Tim Jones HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087456 Chantal’s Book Jack Ross HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087448 Through his Wellington HeadworX publishing house Mark Pirie has become something of a phenomenon in recent years…
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Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 58, Jack Ross, James Norcliffe, Simon Williamson, Tim Jones, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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Not simply red, Stephanie de Montalk
An Explanation of Poetry to my Father Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $14.95, ISBN 18877228443 Hats Jenny Powell-Chalmers HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473071487 Chrome Paula Green Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869402405 Last year my husband’s Uncle Alec, a retired Edinburgh bricklayer,…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Glenn Colquhoun, HeadworX, Issue 50, Jenny Powell-Chalmers, October 2001, Paula Green, Steele Roberts, Stephanie de Montalk
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More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson
Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…
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Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, HeadworX, Issue 49, L E Scott, Mary Macpherson
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Blues in the night, John Allison
Late Love Songs Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 1877161446 Music Therapy Peter Olds Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $17.95 ISBN 1869420233 Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 Stephen Oliver HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473073889 I’ve never written a locomotive poem; not…
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Tagged with: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 54, John Allison, Peter Olds, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The traffic in perceptions, Janet Hughes
Talking Pictures: Selected Poems Riemke Ensing HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473068044 The cover of Riemke Ensing’s latest collection sends mixed typographic signals. You read Selected Poems first, at the top; but it’s in italic, and grey, so it defers to the…
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Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 48, Janet Hughes, June 2001, Riemke Ensing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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Cultivating their own garden, Harvey McQueen
Dialectic of Mud Richard Reeve Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 869402529 The Whole Forest Nick Williamson Sudden Valley Press, $16.95, ISBN 095820912X Abstract Internal Furniture Helen Rickerby HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473078570 Most New Zealand poetry is a private garden. The…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Helen Rickerby, Issue 53, Nick Williamson, Richard Reeve, Sudden Valley Press
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Form and dysfunction, Laurence Jenkins
The Ambush John Parkyn Quoin Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 877163 23 6 The Diary as a Positive in Female Adult Behaviour Vivienne Plumb HeadworX, $16.95, ISBN 0 473 06342 5 baby, is this wonderland? Jeanne Bernhardt HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0…
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Tagged with: HeadworX, Jeanne Bernhardt, John Parkyn, Laurence Jenkins, Quoin Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Trusting the peripheral vision, John Allison
Unmanned Stephen Oliver HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0 473 05753 0 Pingandy Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0 473 05752 2 Drought and other intimacies Pat White Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1 877228 15 X On surveying trips, my father taught…
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Tagged with: Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Issue 43, Pat White, Steele Roberts, Stephen Oliver
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