An Autobiography Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 18772421225 Lauris Edmond: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ed K O Arvidson Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242152 There’s only one issue to be resolved with autobiography, and that is the Truth Problem.…
A Deserter’s Adventures – the Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli Translated from the Italian by John Crockett Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276111 Since the first English-language publication of Dom Felice Vaggioli’s New Zealand and its Inhabitants in 2000, the…
Rhyming Planet David Eggleton Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877228567 Clearances Alan Riach Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 18772700705 Acetylene Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734190 David Eggleton, street entertainer, licensed to rave, appears in a surprisingly subdued pose on…
Oh There You Are Tui! New and Selected Poems Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734107 From the outset of her poetic career, one of the most promising debuts in recent New Zealand writing with It has No Sound…
Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield Joanna Woods Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143018051 Manhattan. The buildings of Columbia merge into midwinter murk. I enter a warm cave of bookshelves. In the beam of a desk lamp, Rufus W Mathewson is…
In Polynesia Antony Alpers Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161802 For over forty years, Antony Alpers has given us books which all share as their main themes the diametrically opposed but often intersecting realms of myth and reality, fact and fiction.…
Talking Toss Woollaston, Gregory O’Brien
Toss Woollaston in conversation with Gregory O’Brien I visited Toss Woollaston at Upper Moutere in September 1994 and over two days recorded two-and-a-half hours of conversation with him. During my stay, the talk ranged widely, with Toss speaking at some…
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