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Green thoughts in green shades, Hugh Roberts
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Geoff Cochrane, Hugh Roberts, Issue 100, James Brown, Otago University Press, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Hums, James Brown
James Brown looks back at A A Milne’s classic books for children. The World of Pooh is my all-time favourite formative book. This is a collection containing A A Milne’s two Pooh books – Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh…
Poem – James Brown
Long shadows She loses her virginity down the garden, in the onion weed under the crabapple. She leaves town for the city; reappears on national TV. The freckle astride her left breast is a partially developed third nipple, she explains,…
Removing the cycle clips, John Horrocks
Like Love Poems: Selected Poems Joanna Margaret Paul (ed Bernadette Hall) Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735278 Modern Colours Wystan Curnow Jack Books, $24.95, ISBN 0473102544 One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 08646735286…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Bernadette Hall, Dinah Hawken, Issue 77, Jack Books, James Brown, Joanna Margaret Pau, John Horrocks, Michael Jackson, Victoria University Press, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – James Brown
Letter Sir – I am very distressed by what can only be described as the lamentable state of poetry in this country today. In the past we have enjoyed a fine tradition of inspired, well-crafted verse from the likes…
Verbal aerobics and intimacies, John Horrocks
Favourite Monsters James Brown Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734344 The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734417 Readers of James Brown’s previous collections of poetry, Go Round Power Please and Lemon, will…
Tagged with: Issue 58, James Brown, John Horrocks, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tolling on, James Brown
The Bells of Saint Babel’s: Poems 1997-2001 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402421 There is much to admire in Curnow’s first completely new book since The Loop in Lone Kauri Road (1986). To the fore is his great…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, James Brown
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Squeezing the juice out of language, Cilla McQueen
Lemon James Brown Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 374 7 Winter I Was Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 375 5 Poetry could turn out to be a favoured literary form in the 21st century,…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 43, James Brown, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – James Brown
Discourse / Counter-Discourse In the garden, the washing line fell into disuse. First the women forgot how to remove stains, then they forgot cloth altogether. They danced in celebration – blood and chocolate everywhere. Gradually, they forgot a lot of…
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“Aha – data reduction!” James Brown
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