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Controlled randomness, Kai Jensen
Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000 David Howard Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228591 I associate volumes of Collected Poems with poetic fame – long sequence of small books, most now out of print, requiring a full collection to satisfy the demands of…
Tagged with: David Howard, Issue 50, Kai Jensen, Steele Roberts, Winter 2000
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tough grace, Simone Drichel
Dogside Story Patricia Grace Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004193 In her long career as a writer of both novels and short fiction, Patricia Grace has shown remarkable consistency in her publishing pattern: invariably, the publication of a collection of short stories…
Tagged with: Issue 50, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Simone Drichel, Winter 2000
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
KM’d & KO’d, Alison Gray
Recollecting Mansfield Margaret Scott Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620763 It is hard to know whether Katherine Mansfield would have been delighted, amazed or appalled at the industry that has evolved since her death, at the academic careers she has sustained, at…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Godwit, Issue 50, Margaret Scott, Winter 2000
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters — Issue 50
Cock of the walk Heather Murray’s review of Curnow’s The Bells of St. Babel’s (in your August 2001 issue) is a kind of negative tribute to Curnow’s pre-eminent position on the New Zealand literary scene. How many poets in their…
Poem — David Howard
Now here Family snaps in leatherette albums prove “nothing lasts forever” (thanks Mum) as shadows crawl on their stomachs, the sun sinks in the West you never won. Looming into the tedium waiters understand the way nostrils understand incense,…
Issue 50 Winter 2000
Volume 10 | Number 2 | Issue 50 | Winter 2000 Mark Amery: Roger Horrocks, Len Lye: A Biography Janet Charman: “snowing down south” (poem) Editorial Correspondence Patricia Grace on Pinocchio David Howard: “Now here” (poem) Jenny Pattrick: Ann…
Nose in a book, Patricia Grace
Recently, when I called in to see my brother, we looked through a box of books and other items that were all in some way associated with our father. My father grew up in a small community where I often…
Through unfamiliar waters, Chris Maclean
Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark Neville Peat Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877135577 Two centuries ago, sealers and whalers came to New Zealand to hunt marine mammals for their oil and skins. Millions were slaughtered, most of them on…
Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 50, Longacre Press, Neville Peat, Winter 2000
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Hard Knox, Robert Onopa
Black Oxen Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734093 From the first paragraph of Elizabeth Knox’s previous novel, Vintner’s Luck, the reader enters as complete and rich an alternative world as exists in contemporary fiction. It is a world…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 50, Robert Onopa, Victoria University Press, Winter 2000
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review