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Warning and consolation, Mark Houlahan
Selected Poems Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408596 If you dine at Ian Wedde’s, the poetic indications are you’ll eat well. Among the many charms of this seductive, fatly packed Selected Poems are the number of food groups…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Wedde, Issue 127, Mark Houlahan, Spring 2019
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The gap between fiction and history, Hamish Clayton
R.H.I.: Two Novellas Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739827 Trifecta Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739834 In 1987, the South African novelist J M Coetzee spoke at the Weekly Mail Book Week in Cape Town, offering…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 112, Summer 2015, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Digging and delving, Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks
The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739384 The protagonist of the present-day portion of Symmes Hole (1986), Ian Wedde’s canonical and underread novel about settler colonialism, is obsessed with history. He digs…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 108, Summer 2014, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Time’s wingèd chariot, Mark Houlahan
Us, Then Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780867438929 The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-20013 Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407698 Life and Customs Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739001 “But at my back I always hear…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Ian Wedde, Issue 104, Mark Houlahan, Summer 2013, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The difficult decisive moment, Tom Elliott
I Loved You the Moment I Saw You Peter Black Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780864736598 The first pages of Peter Black’s I Loved You the Moment I Saw You struck me with their colourful, contemporary design and fine…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Ian Wedde, Issue 97, Peter Black, Tom Elliott, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Being in time, Stephen Harris
The Catastrophe Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736475 The image on the cover of Ian Wedde’s new novel, The Catastrophe, sets the satirical tone and pitch of the ensuing story: the bold noun of the title, announcing…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Ian Wedde, Issue 97, Stephen Harris, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Good returns, Cilla McQueen
Table Talk Kevin Ireland Cape Catley, $25.99, ISBN 9781877340246 Africa Alistair Paterson Puriri Press, $36.00, ISBN 9780908943364 The Lakes of Mars Chris Orsman Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404086 The Worm in the Tequila Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00,…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Cape Catley, Chris Orsman, Cilla McQueen, Geoff Cochrane, Ian Wedde, Issue 90, Kevin Ireland, Puriri Press, Victoria University Press, Winter 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Seen in the right light, Jenny Harper
Bill Culbert: Making Light Work Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $99.99, ISBN 9781869404390 Making Light Work is a great title, the best I’ve come across for some time. It makes me smile and think of Bill Culbert, the subject of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Culbert, Ian Wedde, Jenny Harper
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Time out, Mark Houlahan
Chinese Opera Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735850 When a story by Ian Wedde called “Chinese Opera” was published in Sport 2, readers were informed that he expected to “finish Chinese Opera, his fourth novel, in 1989.” Nineteen…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Ian Wedde, Issue 85, Mark Houlahan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Home and away. Paula Morris
I Am Always With You Philip Temple Random, $34.99, ISBN 1869417739 The Viewing Platform Ian Wedde Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 9780143020929 Local writers Stevan Eldred-Grigg (Kaput!) and Tina Shaw (The Black Madonna) have found imaginative inspiration in wartime Berlin, and now…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 76, Paula Morris, Philip Temple, Random, Summer 2006
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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