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Persevere, dear reader, Leonard Lambert
Best Beakerful Dean Farran Productions, Christchurch, 1991, $12 Missing Parts: poems 1977-1990 Alan Loney, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $19.95 Metaphysics for Fun Ross Fraser, Dragonfly Press, Auckland, 1991, $15 Waiheke Art and Poetry Pamela Reid (ed), P O Box 202,…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Dean Farran Productions, Dragonfly Press, Hazard Press, Issue 6, John Patterson, Jye Kang, Leonard Lambert, Nagare Press, Pamela Reid, Ross Fraser, Spring 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Robust, brilliant, rather difficult, Heather Roberts
Disputed Ground, Robin Hyde, Journalist Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline Matthews (eds), Victoria University Press, $34.95 A book of selected journalism seems an unlikely place to make a serious assessment of a writer. Journalism is regarded as ephemeral, lost in musty…
Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Heather Roberts, Issue 6, Jacqueline Matthews, Robin Hyde, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 06 Spring 1992
Volume 2 | Number 2 | Issue 6 | Spring 1992 Editorial Lauris Edmond Letters Phil Mann: “The Poverty Trap: A warning fable” (comment) Janet Wilson: “Very Much a ‘Wellington’ piece?” (response, comment) Iain Sharp: “Letter from Auckland” (comment)…
Spareness and generosity, Bill Sewell
Milky Way Bar Bill Manhire, Victoria University Press, 1991, $16.95 Short Back and Sideways: Poems and Prose Hone Tuwhare, Godwit, 1992, $19.95 It would be hard to imagine two poets as different as Bill Manhire and Hone Tuwhare. Both are…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 6, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Outstanding biography, John Goodliffe
Vladimir Nabokov: the American years Brian Boyd, Chatto and Windus, London, 1992, $59.95 The first volume of Brian Boyd’s monumental biography of Vladimir Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov: the Russian Years, 1990) was accorded very high critical acclaim. This second volume, covering…
Tagged with: Issue 6, John Goodliffe, Spring 1992, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Agile metaphors, Lawrence Bourke
Selected Poems Vincent O’Sullivan, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1992, $24.95 Vincent O’Sullivan’s Selected Poems provides a timely conspectus on the poetry department of this one-man literary industry. It prints twenty-four new poems with a ruthless selection of the early work…
A reader tease, Paola Bilbrough
Treasure Elizabeth Knox, Victoria University Press, 1992, $24.95 ‘I have come that you might have life and have it in fullness’ is a biblical quotation repeated twice in Elizabeth Knox’s latest creation, Treasure. It relates most obviously to the sheer…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 6, Paola Bilbrough, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Research guide, Gavin McLean
A Guide to Art Galleries and Museums In New Zealand Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Auckland, 1991, $14.95 This snappy little paperback wins out over Thomson’s earlier book in that it is cheap and portable enough to be bought and…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 6, Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Spring 1992
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Rampant Monetarism, Gillian Boddy
Feral City Rosie Scott, Reed, 1991, $24.95 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood‑dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (W B Yeats, The Second Coming)…
Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Issue 6, Reed, Rosie Scott, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
An elegant and serious survey, Jonathan Else
Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90s Trish Clark and Wystan Curnow (eds), Longman Paul, $34.95 This volume is a refreshing challenge to several assumptions that have become the dead wood of art theory and scholarship in New Zealand, and,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Jonathan Else, Longman Paul, Spring 1992, Trish Clark, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review