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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…
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 –…
Half a good book, John McCrystal
The Trowenna Sea Witi Ihimaera Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202455 First, let’s deal with the distractions. Unless you were living under a rock in the latter part of 2009, you will be aware that Witi Ihimaera found himself in a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Issue 89, John McCrystal, Penguin Books, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rivers, repetition and reproaches
Mark Williams re-assesses his position on Ihimaera’s borrowings and reworkings. Reviewing a book on modernism by C K Stead in Landfall in 1986, Ken Ruthven revived the old saw that one cannot step in the same river twice, meaning that…
The other f-word, Rae Julian
Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives Kate McMillan, John Leslie and Elizabeth McLeay (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736109 Rethinking Women and Politics is based on a series of papers prepared for a Wellington workshop in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 89, John Leslie, Kate McMillan, Rae Julian, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Moving deeper, John Horrocks
Mirabile Dictu Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 9781869404406 The Lustre Jug Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736086 Just This Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735911 One can expect that these new collections by three…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bernadette Hall, Brian Turner, Issue 89, John Horrocks, Michele Leggott, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The good, the bad and the epic, Louise O’Brien
As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 0143011677 Who Sings for Lu? Alan Duff Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869790585 The Adventures of Vela Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869693633 Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver describes…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The voice on the page, Jocelyn Harris
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