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Iain Sharp: Beyond the pale

Posted on June 12, 1994 by NZ Books

State Ward Alan Duff Random House, $17.95 I realise that almost everyone is bone-weary by now of the wrangling over the Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories and its shameful “Note on Absences”. All the same, I cannot resist…

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Wrenched from the alphabet, Mark Williams

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Iain Sharp and I were contemporaries in the English department at Auckland University in the early 1970s. In the first year of our masters programme we collaborated on a series of parodies of the poems that had appeared in Arthur…

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Letter from Auckland, Iain Sharp

Posted on June 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Earlier this year I was asked to write a short profile of Maurice Gee for Pacific Way, the Air New Zealand in-flight magazine. This involved a long-distance call from the Pacific Way office in Auckland to Gee’s home in Wellington…

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Essay – Iain Sharp

Posted on March 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Iain Sharp: Letter from Auckland: Son of Landfall At the time of writing, it’s in the midst of a closing-down sale, like much of Auckland, but for the last couple of years there has been a music shop on the…

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Letter from Auckland: Throttle, stab, shoot and loot, Iain Sharp

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

The other night, as I reclined in the University Club in Princes Street, gazing fondly on the eccentric but adorable features of my confrères and belles-soeurs in Slightly Foxed, a society composed of the city’s leading bibliomaniacs, it occurred to…

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Minnie Mouse plays Anna Karenina, Iain Sharp

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Staying Home and Being Rotten Shonagh Koea, Vintage, $19.95 Unlawful Entry Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage, $19.95 It’s always presumptuous to thrust two authors under a single umbrella. At least in the present instance one can point, by way of excuse, to shared nationality,…

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Letter from Auckland, Iain Sharp

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

For dedicated literati, there’s no better place in Auckland to gulp down a cappuccino or hot chocolate than the Kerouac Deli in Vulcan Lane. It’s just a stone’s throw from Unity Books and the Queen’s Ferry, which are respectively the…

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Stuck in the middle – or the New Zealand publishing scene observed, Iain Sharp

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

In order to understand the New Zealand publishing scene a little better, let’s play a game of make-believe. The first scenario goes like this. You are someone who loves New Zealand for its climate, scenery, canned food, sports heroes and…

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