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Hymns, history and haemorrhoids, Janet Hughes
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $22.00, ISBN 1869403495 Afternoon of an Evening Train Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $21.99, ISBN 9864735014 Oooooo…..!!! Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877338699 Footfall Brian Turner Godwit,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Turner, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hone Tuwhare, Ian Wedde, Issue 71, Janet Hughes, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2005, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Botrytised emotion, John Huria
Piggy-back Moon Hone Tuwhare Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620771 Hone Tuwhare’s thirteenth collection is the result of his time as Te Mata Estate poet laureate. It isn’t his most consistent vintage, and I have some reservations about a corked poem or…
Tagged with: Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 52, John Huria, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Engaging all the senses, Robert Sullivan
Shape-Shifter Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts $29.95 ISBN 0 9583712 1 0 In Hone Tuwhare’s work all senses are engaged – tasting, sniffing, visualising, touching and hearing the world of the poem – each poem generates atmosphere through the powerhouse of…
Tagged with: Hone Tuwhare, Issue 33, Robert Sullivan, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
He waka kua eke, Juliet Raven
Deep River Talk: Collected Poems Hone Tuwhare, Godwit, $49.95 hbk, $29.95 pbk Hone Tuwhare’s Collected Poems, drawn from eight previous volumes of poetry, spans thirty years of writing. This in itself represents a problem for the reviewer. There is something…
Tagged with: Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 10, Juliet Raven, Spring 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Spareness and generosity, Bill Sewell
Milky Way Bar Bill Manhire, Victoria University Press, 1991, $16.95 Short Back and Sideways: Poems and Prose Hone Tuwhare, Godwit, 1992, $19.95 It would be hard to imagine two poets as different as Bill Manhire and Hone Tuwhare. Both are…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 6, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Hone Tuwhare
Shadow Implicit above all and as pervasive as the Duende of Federico Garcia Lorca is the sense that I must tread the liveliest and loneliest of measures on my way to Rarohenga cocking a snook at the shadow of…
No ordinary son, Janet Hunt and Michael Morrissey
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