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Ruminative chin music, David Eggleton
Auto/Biographies Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland University Press, $19.95 This is Kendrick Smithyman’s twelfth book of poetry. It continues and restates the themes of his recent collections, Stories About Wooden Keyboards and Are you Going to the Pictures? to the point…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 9, Kendrick Smithyman, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Serving up the ancestors, Harry Ricketts
One of Ben’s Maurice Shadbolt, David Ling Publishing, $44.95 Halfway Round the Harbour Keith Sinclair, Penguin, $29.95 This here biography and ‘reminiscence’ business … is a bit too near the ‘Higher Cannibalism’ to please me. Ancestor-worship is all right…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Harry Ricketts, Issue 9, Keith Sinclair, Maurice Shadbolt, Penguin, Winter 1993
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction
The discourse of security, Alistair Paterson
Red letter Janet Charman, Auckland University Press, $18.95 Strands Keri Hulme, Auckland University Press, $17.95 These two books, both from Auckland University Press and markedly different in their method and concerns, share a common factor in exemplifying the confidence writers…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Janet Charman, Keri Hulme, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters – Issue 9
Yanks still here I was only slightly miffed by your pejorative comment ‘Readers interested in the ‘invasion’ (of the Americans 1942-44) might like to search the remainder bins for Harry Bioletti’s The Yanks are Coming‘. You won’t find any copies…
Oral Poetry, John Jowett
Glasgow Poets Past and Present: The Story of a City Edwin Morgan, Avizandum Editions (University of Waikato Scottish Studies Association), $5.00 This pamphlet marks a time and place. It prints a lecture delivered by the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan…
Tagged with: Avizandum Editions, Edwin Morgan, Issue 9, John Jowett, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 9
Jane Stafford: Not a theory of poetry Poetry and theorising have always had an uneasy relationship. Perhaps it is because they are at some level antithetical, the packed allusiveness of the poem as opposed to the careful logic of…
Talk with the dead, Rachel Nunns
Letters to Doctor Dee and other Poems James Norcliffe, Hazard Press, $16.95 The KM File and other Poems with Katherine Mansfield Riemke Ensing, Hazard Press, $16.95 Kapiti Poems Six Meg Campbell (ed), Rawhiti Press, price not given In his…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, James Norcliffe, Katherine Mansfield, Meg Campbell, Rachel Nunns, Rawhiti Press, Riemke Ensing, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 9 | Winter 1993
Volume 3 | Number 1 | Issue 9 | Winter 1993 Editorial Letters Harry Ricketts: Maurice Shadbolt, One of Ben’s; Keith Sinclair, Halfway Round the Harbour Mary Roberts: James Bertram, Capes of China Slide Away Elizabeth Smither: Maurice Gee,…
Publisher’s Profiles 7, Daphne Brasell Associates, Helen Forlong
The quiet atmosphere in the light-filled, softly carpeted offices of Daphne Brasell Associates in the romantic Wellington suburb of Thorndon belies the frantic pace of a business which has produced at least 40 books from its press, hundreds of government…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Helen Forlong, Issue 9, Winter 1993
Posted in Imprints
Posted in Imprints
The Final Volume, Peter Whiteford
Moontalk Keith Sinclair, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Moontalk is Keith Sinclair’s fifth volume of poetry, coming some twenty years after his last collection, The Firewheel Tree (1973). As the sub-title implies, this volume includes a selection (which the blurb…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Keith Sinclair, Peter Whiteford, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review