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Poem — Graham Lindsay
Hospital in Kabul Girl with heavily bandaged right knee and bandages on the left leg down to her calf, beyond which nothing stares stricken-eyed. No one breaks the tableau nurse, doctor or member of the camera crew to rescue her…
Poem — Leonard Lambert
Seacorn For Bob Orr, who knows that coast You sent me down for sea‑corn deep among the rocks below the jetty ‑ It’s a delicacy, you said. Pick one of three. At the bach we found the water off,…
Poem — Harry Ricketts
A literary history R A K Mason The problem with being a poet in New Zealand is: how do you show it? No one wants a lone crag, or Christ on the swag. But I’m going to be famous, I…
Different qualities, Charles Croot
Ornamental Gorse Chris Orsman Victoria University Press, $19.95 The Persistent Levitator Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $19.95 Honeypants Lynda Earle Auckland University Press, $19.95 Black Family Letters from Boston L E Scott Blue Black Press / Bent Publishing, $15.95 What…
Contributing to the tribal record, Jane McRae
Kati au i konei compiled by Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal Huia Publishers, $24.95 This book contains texts, translations and explanatory notes for 15 waiata from Ngati Toarangatira and Ngati Raukawa. It is written in Maori and English, illustrated with photographs…
Tagged with: Huia Publishers, Issue 16, Jane McRae, Summer 1994, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Better at a distance, Gerry Webb
My History, I think Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin Books, $29.95 “Neither autobiography nor yet fiction, this fascinating document traces the workings inside the mind of a leading writer”, says the blurb. The sad fact is that the workings of this writer’s…
Tagged with: Gerry Webb, Issue 16, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg, Summer 1994
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Skin and bones, Tom Beard
Skinning a Fish Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 The cover illustration ‑ a cold blue etching of a grotesque deep‑sea fish screwed to a ragged knife ‑ is a spare and disturbing image that hints at a hard edge to…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 16, Kevin Ireland, Summer 1994, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Women among the puritans, Heather Murray
A Barbarous Tongue Marilyn Duckworth Vintage New Zealand (first pub Hutchinson & Co, 1963), $24.95 Fooling Marilyn Duckworth Hazard Press, $9.95 Marilyn Duckworth stands alone in New Zealand fiction, occupying a lofty and lonely spot few others have had the…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 16, Marilyn Duckworth, Summer 1994, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Varying power and art, Kim Worthington
Between Friends Linda Burgess University of Otago Press, $24.95 Cowrie Cathie Dunsford Tandem Press, $19.95 In Translation Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press $24.95 Sing to Me, Dreamer Shonagh Koea Random House, $24.95 Having recently returned to New Zealand after several…
Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Cathie Dunsford, Issue 16, Kim Worthington, Linda Burgess, Random House, Shonagh Koea, Summer 1994, Tandem Press, University of Otago Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 16
Easing Jane Stafford’s panic For the past 25 to 30 years some of “us”, that is, writers who have generally been considered to be working somewhere on the margins of New Zealand literature, have been on the receiving end of…