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Issue 53 | June 2002
Volume 12 | Number 2 | Issue 53 | June 2002 Anne French: Lauris Edmond, An Autobiography; Selected Poems 1975-2000 Editorial Peter Wells: Dennis McEldowney, The World Regained; Vanya Lowry, From the Wisteria Bush Louise White: “Rituals” (poem) Nicholas…
The Truth Problem, Anne French
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.…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 2001, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 53, K O Arvidson, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Poem – Louise White
Rituals Sprung from the trunk of a treefern, a backbone curves against the sky. It was the same then, early morning under manuka, the slab secured between branches, a smoke-house dangling on rope. The knife paused in my father’s…
A model egotist, Nicholas Reid
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Dom Felice Vaggioli, Issue 53, John Crockett, Nicholas Reid, Otago University Press
Posted in Autobiography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Zigzags and jags, John Horrocks
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…
Tagged with: Alan Riach, Autumn 2001, David Eggleton, Geoff Cochrane, Hazard Press, Issue 53, John Horrocks, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
To sing the last word, Janet Wilson
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Dinah Hawken, Issue 53, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“These Russians”, Natasha Templeton
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Issue 53, Joanna Woods, Natasha Templeton, Penguin
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Lagoon-level view, Martin Sutton
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.…
Tagged with: Antony Alpers, Autumn 2001, Hazard Press, Issue 53, Martin Sutton
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Talking Toss Woollaston, Gregory O’Brien
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