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Strange worlds, Heather Murray
Song of the Brakeman Bill Direen Titus Books, $29.95, ISBN 0958258678 The Assassin of Gleam James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN1877270997 Departure Lounge Chad Taylor Jonathan Cape, $34.99, ISBN 9780224075047 Southern Style Craig Marriner Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 1869417100 It never…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Bill Direen, Chad Taylor, Craig Marriner, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 77, James Norcliffe, Jonathan Cape, Titus Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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
Keeping your hair on, Heather Murray
The Transformation Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734654 In Mutes and Earthquakes Bill Manhire gives his creative writing pupils a couple of pieces of advice: 1) write what you know, and 2) write what you don’t know. If,…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Heather Murray, Issue 64, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not tolling for me, Heather Murray
The Bells of Saint Babel’s: Poems 1997-2001 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402421 They have all gone into the dark: the fellow poets of his youth and middle age, the critics, the early shapers and gatekeepers of New…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Heather Murray, Issue 49
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Kissing and telling, Heather Murray
Camping on the Faultline: A Memoir Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 413 6 Writing in the London Review of Books (16 March 2000), nga Clendinnen notes the changing reader attitude to autobiographical writing. While once a reader came…
Tagged with: Heather Murray, Issue 44, Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The emptiness within, Heather Murray
The Lonely Margins of the Sea Shonagh Koea Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 348 2 On the lonely margins of society, Shonagh Koea’s women conduct their lives. It is a rich territory evidently, for after five novels and two volumes…
Re-charting our child myth, Heather Murray
Boy Overboard by Peter Wells Vintage New Zealand, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 319 9 Boy Overboard is a great novel. It is a work which will resonate for many a year, and become as important a marker of growing up…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Heather Murray, Issue 29, Peter Wells, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Thin issues, rich wit, a gang and a psychopath, Heather Murray
The Journey Home Cathie Dunsford Spinifex Press Pty Ltd (Australia), $24.95, ISBN 1 875559 54 X Dr Beale’s Wednesday Liz Falkner Arrow, Random House, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 297 4 The Visitation Sue Reidy Black Swan, $19.95, ISBN 0 552…
Tagged with: Arrow, Black Swan, Bronwyn Tate, Cathie Dunsford, Heather Murray, Issue 28, Laura Solomon, Liz Falkner, Otago University Press, Random House, Spinifex Press, Sue Reidy, Summer 1997, Tandem Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bovver boys
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