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Shivers of emotion, Tom McLean
Dan Davin: A Field Officer’s Notebook: Selected Poems Robert McLean (ed) Cold Hub Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473430689 Robert McLean here presents an edited selection of Dan Davin’s poetry, collecting a body of verse seen as having value in itself rather…
Tagged with: Cold Hub Press, Dan Davin, Issue 123, Robert McLean, Spring 2018, Tom McLean
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Yearning and erasure, John Horrocks
He’s so MASC Chris Tse Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 1781869408879 The Facts Therese Lloyd Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561810 Dark Days at the Oxygen Café James Norcliffe Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776560837 (more…)…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Tse, Issue 123, James Norcliffe, John Horrocks, Spring 2018, Therese Lloyd, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Keith Westwater – Poem
To Avis Elaine The flowers you loved strew the shores of my first seven years Sometimes, in flower shops they shout out their names gerbera gladioli iris Sometimes they sing to me from a bouquet only half-made peonies pansies sweet…
Making Art in words and paint
Grahame Sydney, artist, recalls a significant book. It lay beside my bed through most of my teenaged years, one of two constant companions of my privately turbulent adolescence. The other was Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit, and both paperbacks grew…
Thoughts well-wrought, Damian Love
View from the South Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney photographer) Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9780143771845 It often seems to be the case that novelists, when they turn to verse, move with a more relaxed gait, a less self-conscious regard, than those whose…
Tagged with: Damian Love, Grahame Sydney, Issue 123, Owen Marshall, Spring 2018, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Almost too true, Aleksia Drain
Lyla Fleur Beale Allen and Unwin, $19.00, ISBN 9781760113780 Lyla is a book written in raw truth. The story begins in a world of homework and the normal everyday life of a young schoolgirl named Lyla. She attends Avonside Girls’…
Tagged with: Aleksia Drain, Allen and Unwin, Fleur Beale, Issue 123, Spring 2018
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Girls galloping horses: unstable identities, Amy Brown
Rainfall Ella West Allen and Unwin, $19.00, ISBN 9781760296834 Showtym Adventures: Casper, the Spirited Arabian Kelly Wilson Puffin, $15.00, ISBN 9780143772248 Do You Want to Gallop with Me? Sophie Siers (Judith Trevelyan illus) Millwood Press, $20.00, ISBN 9780473408541 The Gift…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Amy Brown, Ella West, Issue 123, Judith Trevelyan, Katharine White, Kelly Wilson, Millwood Press, Sophie Siers, Spring 2018
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Life and death before 20, Angelina Sbroma
Catch Me When You Fall Eileen Merriman Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143770930 Ash Arising Mandy Hager Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143772439 Eileen Merriman’s Catch Me When You Fall – a title that provokes a head-tilt to begin with and that takes multiple…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Eileen Merriman, Issue 123, Mandy Hager, Penguin, Spring 2018
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Fathoms deep, James Robins
The New Ships Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561889 It’s a deeply distressing thing to find the word “bugger” on the first page of a New Zealand writer’s novel. Rather like opening some French fiction to discover “sacré…
Tagged with: Issue 123, James Robins, Kate Duignan, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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