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Issue 89 | Autumn 2010
Volume 20 | Number 1 | Issue 89 | Autumn 2010 Letters Andrew Wood: “Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948)” (poem) Gregory O’Brien: “Low cloud, field of peonies, Martinborough” Ashleigh Young: Sam Hunt, Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life Kathryn Walls: Tessa Duder…
Might and rights, Elspeth Sandys
Field Punishment No 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition David Grant, paintings by Bob Kerr Steele Roberts, $34.99, ISBN 9781877448461 In his introduction to Field Punishment No 1, David Grant expresses his satisfaction that New Zealand…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Bob Kerr, David Grant, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 89, Steele Roberts
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
A figure in motion, Stella Ramage
Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869404222 Last September I visited the blockbuster Salvador Dali exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Glamorous and edifying though it was, I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Life cycles, Murray Bramwell
Somebody Loves Us All Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864736161 The title of Damien Wilkins’ sixth novel, Somebody Loves Us All, comes from a line by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. The poem is called “Filling Station”…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Damien Wilkins, Issue 89, Murray Bramwell, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 89
Fantasy London flat C K Stead thinks I am having a “fantasy” about a meeting I had with Dr Michael Bassett at Parliament in 1989 (NZB Summer 2009). Perhaps he has confused one meeting I describe with a later one.…
Love and war, Christine Johnston
Ned and Katina: A True Love Story Patricia Grace Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143007401 Who could resist a love story set on Crete in 1945? Obviously Patricia Grace couldn’t. The celebrated author was approached by Ned’s and Katina’s family with…
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Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Doing what she pleased, Jill Trevelyan
Letters on the Go: The Correspondence of Suzanne Aubert Jessie Munro (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $69.99, ISBN 9781877242427 In 1922, 87-year-old Suzanne Aubert wrote to a Raetihi farmer: Dear Mr Punch Your valuable present of another truck-load of firewood arrived…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 89, Jessie Munro, Jill Trevelyan, Suzanne Aubert
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Had experience, missed meaning, Dougal McNeill
Plume of Bees: A Literary Biography of C K Stead Judith Dell Panny Cape Catley, $39.99, ISBN 9781877340239 Modernism, born in the era of wars and revolutions, grew on contradiction. Centred in London, none of its greatest writers were English.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, C K Stead, Cape Catley, Dougal McNeill, Issue 89, Judith Dell Panny
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Restaurant, stars We had dined; we came out. The stars were above, high and bright. ‘Look …’ someone started but we started the car instead. In their autumn positions the stars – one noticed the displacement of a constellation –…
The voice on the page, Jocelyn Harris
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