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“Unlicked selves”, Hugh Roberts
Collected Poems Fleur Adcock Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776562091 “Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet, editor and translator who resides in Britain” – so says, blandly, the inside back flap of the dust-jacket of Victoria University Press’s imposing…
Tagged with: Fleur Adcock, Hugh Roberts, Issue 128, Summer 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unthawing, Hugh Roberts
Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908-1945 John Newton Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561629 Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature Erin Mercer Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560851 If there is a better…
Tagged with: Erin Mercer, Hugh Roberts, Issue 123, John Newton, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
An anatomy of neoliberal angst, Hugh Roberts
Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008 Jennifer Lawn Lexington Books, $95.00, ISBN 9780739177419 The 1984 Labour government’s legacy has been a curious Rorschach test over the years. I can recall talking to my students in classes at…
Tagged with: Hugh Roberts, Issue 116, Jennifer Lawn, Lexington Books, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Culture wars, ancient and modern, Hugh Roberts
The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971-2013 Wystan Curnow Adam Art Gallery/Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739322 Then It Was Now Again: Selected Critical Writing Murray Edmond Atuanui Press, $44.00, ISBN 9780992245368 The editors of The Critic’s Part tell…
Tagged with: Adam Art Gallery, Atuanui Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 111, Murray Edmond, Spring 2015, Victoria University Press, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Sourcing the golden goose, Hugh Roberts
Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work Gordon H Brown Art History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00, ISBN 9780475122032 Toss Woollaston: Origins and Influence Tony Green Art History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00, ISBN 9771176304001 Colin McCahon…
Tagged with: Art History Programme, Colin McCahon, Gordon H Brown, Hugh Roberts, Issue 102, Rex Butler, Roger Blackley, Tony Green, Toss Woollaston, Victoria University of Wellington, Winter 2013
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Green thoughts in green shades, Hugh Roberts
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Geoff Cochrane, Hugh Roberts, Issue 100, James Brown, Otago University Press, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Conviction or reflection, Hugh Roberts
The Settler’s Plot: How Stories Take Place in New Zealand Alex Calder Auckland University Press, $45.99, ISBN 9781869404882 Cosma Shalizi has proposed a useful division of non-fiction works into two categories, “works of reflection” and “works of conviction”: A…
Tagged with: Alex Calder, Auckland University Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 96, Summer 2011
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Knocking the Nationalists, Hugh Roberts
The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity 1930-1970 Francis Pound Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 1869404149 Francis Pound’s The Invention of New Zealand is an uneven and often quirky work but one with which anyone interested in the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Francis Pound, Hugh Roberts, Issue 90, Winter 2010
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review