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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
People like us, Jane Westaway
Holy Days Joy Cowley Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004169 Breakwater Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734174 Floating the Fish on Bamboo Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503988 Domestic realism is the meat and potatoes of contemporary fiction. So it…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Autumn 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 53, Jane Westaway, Joy Cowley, Kate Duignan, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Like great sex only better, Robert Burgess
Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story Michael Laws Darius Press, $29.95, ISBN 0473078252 Loyal: The Todd Blackadder Story Phil Gifford Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95, ISBN 1869588924 Head tilted back, eye-balling you. Norm on the front cover, bold and proud. And so…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Darius Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 53, Michael Laws, Norm Hewitt, Phil Gifford, Todd Blackadder
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Poem – Rae Varcoe
When considering euthanasia First, you should own a wise physician friend, a young one, the kind who could find a needle in a brainstorm. If not, rent one. If you wish, consult a minister or priest. (For myself, I…
Writing for the little pink babies, Helen Beaglehole
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