Gregory O’Brien reports on recent literary occasions in Rotterdam and Moscow which featured New Zealand poets There must have been a world before the Trio Sonata in D, a world before the A minor Partita, but what kind of a…
Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves ed Russell Brown Activity Press, $29.95, ISBN 95826340X For decades after 1930, a year seldom passed without a book or long magazine article by a New Zealander or a visiting scholar examining New…
Elizabeth Smither seeks out A Girl of the Limberlost. I can still remember my fear of the swamp. Was it because of The Hound of the Baskervilles? But A Girl of the Limberlost held a deeper kind of fear when…