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Editorial – Issue 49
Two cheers for biography Biography doesn’t always get a good press. It has been Said to have “added a new terror to death”, while Oscar Wilde remarked that “[e]very great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas…
More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson
Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 49 Autumn 2000
Volume 10 | Number 1 | Issue 49 | Autumn 2000 Barry Gustafson: Michael Bassett & Michael King, Tomorrow Comes the Song. A Life of Peter Fraser Editorial Correspondence Kim Hill: Carole van Grondelle, Angel of the Anzacs: The…
Poem — Jo Thorpe
The Tate Modern (found in Time magazine) As power stations go, Bankside was a looker a hulking lunker with tapering chimney and squat symmetry enhanced by groups of windows striping its entire height. Also, it has size – which modern…
More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bugger the box-office, Laurie Atkinson
The Little Theatre: golden years of the New Zealand stage Glyn Strange Clerestory Press, $45.00, ISBN 0958370699 A Theatre in the House: The Careys’ Globe Rosalie Carey Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877133663 If British theatre, as Richard Eyre and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, Clerestory Press, Glyn Strange, Issue 49, Laurie Atkinson, Otago University Press, Rosalie Carey
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review