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Issue 63 | June 2004
Volume 14 | Number 2 | Issue 63 | June 2004 Jock Phillips: Michael King – The historian who opened our eyes (essay) Fleur Adcock: “Historian dies in fiery crash” (poem) Editorial Megan Hutching: Susan Jacobs, Fighting with the…
Editorial – Issue 63
A funny sort of pride This is an unusual issue of New Zealand Books, dominated by the loss of two of our pre-eminent writers. When Janet Frame died in January, we decided to commemorate her achievement in this June issue…
The “Frame effect”, Patrick Evans
The most famous of Janet Frame’s poems is probably the one about the little boy dying of leukaemia, “Yet Another Poem About a Dying Child”, which ends with the appearance of Death as a giant spider which gobbles the child…
A slippery no-man, Owen Marshall
Enduring legacy – Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector (ed) Donald Kerr University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library, $39.95, ISBN 1877276650 Several years ago at a reunion of those who had held Otago University’s Robert…
Tagged with: Charles Brasch, Donald Kerr, Issue 63, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 2003, University of Otago Library
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – C K Stead
Takapuna (Janet Frame 1924-2004) So, old friend, you’ve come to it at last (Ron Mason’s line, and now an echo of Yeats!). How does it feel to feel nothing? No one will ask you to read, no unmarked sheet…
Poem – Gregory O’Brien
Dominion From the morning’s politicians as they are delivered unto us shrink-wrapped and bouncing across the lawns of Hataitai deliver us, o lord—from the brash and unhumble who fall face-first, and whom daily we extract from mulch and puddle,…
Poem – Jan Kemp
Staunch (i.m. Michael King 1945 – 2004 & Maria Jungowska 1949 – 2004) I’d have wished you a gentler death in keeping with generosity & deft, liquid speech, yours of right, Michael, not this bizarre fireballing out, though your…
What’s on the menu, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Songs from the Violet Café Fiona Kidman Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414055 In his 1984 essay “Reflections on Exile”, Edward Said remarks: Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 63, Random House, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Spring 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The historian who opened our eyes, Jock Phillips
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