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One of the best, Hugh Roberts

Ursula Bethell. Collected Poems. [Revised edition] Vincent O‘Sullivan (ed) Victoria University Press $24.95 ISBN 0 86473 307 0 One of the reasons we keep reading good writers – and Bethell is one of the best – is because every time

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Summer diversion

A quiz by Harry Ricketts and Hugh Roberts Summer’s here and we thought you might enjoy a diversion. We started out with an orthodox quiz (“who wrote…?”) but then we decided that the only thing more tedious than being asked

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Accurate misquotation – a blast from the present, Hugh Roberts

An appreciation of Allen Curnow Imagine you left New Zealand near the end of the 1960s. You lived overseas and, predictably, grew out of touch with the New Zealand literary scene. You return in 1996 and decide to attend the

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Standing upright here, Hugh Roberts

Cinema of Unease  Sam Neill and Judy Rymer Top Shelf Productions, British Film Institute, New Zealand Film Commission … and other recent New Zealand film The third and fourth generations Begin to speak differently, Suffering mutations, Cannot help identity; Nation’s

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