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Shining a transformative light, Sarah Quigley
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560707 At a time when much of Europe is preoccupied with redefining – and defending – boundaries, New Zealand is…
Tagged with: Cherie Lacey, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Sarah Quigley, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Something that rises, Ingrid Horrocks
Can You Tolerate This?: Personal Essays Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560769 The title of Wellington poet, blogger, and editor Ashleigh Young’s new collection is a challenge issued in somewhat the same spirit as the title of Hera…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The archaeologist of memory, Ingrid Horrocks
The Dreaming Land Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780908321490 The Dreaming Land is Martin Edmond’s first full-length work of autobiography, but he’s been working in the territory of life writing and memoir for a long time. He is…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 113, Martin Edmond
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, 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
Distances, depths and directions, Catherine Vidler
The Moonmen Anna Livesey Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736260 Tigers at Awhitu Sarah Broom Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404574 Mapping the Distance Ingrid Horrocks Victoria University Press, $25.0, ISBN 9780864736277 The Moonmen, Tigers at Awhitu…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Catherine Vidler, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 92, Sarah Broom, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Remembrance of things past, Peter Wells
The House at Karamu Beryl Fletcher Spinifex, $29.95, ISBN 1876756357 Travelling with Augusta 1835 and 1999 Ingrid Horrocks Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864734476 Initially, when I received these two books for review, I thought I would resist the contrast-and-compare…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 60, Peter Wells, Spinifex, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Of ice-blinks, blackbirds and ikebana, John Allison
Homelight Nigel Brown, Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman Pemmican Press, $12.00 ISBN 0 47305149 4 13 Ways Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47304881 7 Natsukashii Ingrid Horrocks Pemmican Press, $14.95 ISBN 0 47305139 7 Black South Chris Orsman Pemmican…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Harry Ricketts, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 34, John Allison, Nigel Brown, Pemmican Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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