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Between dream and dread, Peter Russell
Under New Stars: Poems of the New Zealand Exile: German and English, Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood, Margot Ruben, Dean and Renate Koch (trans) Karl Wolfskehl The Holloway Press, $290.00, ISBN 978086461828 This book will be welcomed by those…
Tagged with: Andrew Paul Wood, Dean Koch, Friedrich Voit, Holloway Press, Issue 100, Karl Wolfskehl, Margot Ruben, Peter Russell, Renate Koch, Summer 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Good old immortal artists, Vincent O’Sullivan
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Charles Brasch, Denis Harold, Holloway Press, Issue 93, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
One-book wonder, Harry Ricketts
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Tagged with: Charles Spear, Harry Ricketts, Holloway Press, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Hooked on wonder and mystery, Damian Skinner
Shane Cotton ed Lara Strongman City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864734697 Jeffrey Harris Justin Paton Victoria University Press and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $69.95, ISBN 0864734867 Engravings on Wood by Leo Bensemann ed Peter Simpson Holloway…
Boy’s Own snapshots, Hugh Roberts
Imperial Vistas Family Fictions Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 186940274X Last Poems Kendrick Smithyman The Holloway Press, $65, ISBN 095823132X It’s an interesting parlour game to speculate how New Zealand’s literary history might have changed had Kendrick Smithyman…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Holloway Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 59, Kendrick Smithyman, Spring 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The life behind the art, Keith Maslen
A Shipboard Diary Annie & Harold Beauchamp Holloway Press, University of Auckland $250.00 and $150.00 [no ISBN] This modest work raises the endlessly fascinating question of the relation between life and art. The title-page explains that it was written “by…
Tagged with: Annie Beauchamp, Harold Beauchamp, Holloway Press, Issue 35, Keith Maslen, University of Auckland
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review