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The light and the dark, Geoffrey Miles
The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer James Norcliffe Longacre, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460692 Sacrifice Joanna Orwin HarperCollins, $26.99, ISBN 9781869509125 It’s rare for a modern children’s writer to create a really original fantasy creature, but James Norcliffe achieved it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Geoffrey Miles, HarperCollins, Issue 97, James Norcliffe, Joanna Orwin, Longacre
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Flights of fancy, Diane Hebley
Sting Raymond Huber Walker Books, $16.99, ISBN 9781921150890 The Strange and Diverting Story of The Loblolly Boy: A Fantasy Novel Involving Enchantment, Mystery, one Garden Gnome and a Wombat’s Bottom James Norcliffe Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460258 Return for the…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 87, James Norcliffe, Longacre Press, Margaret Hall, Raymond Huber, Spring 2009, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
No easy heroics, James Norcliffe
Shadow of the Mountain Anna Mackenzie Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877460005 Smashed Mandy Hager Random House, $18.99, ISBN 9781869419424 Gool Maurice Gee Puffin, $19.95, ISBN 9780143304005 Each of these kidult novels tells a compelling story in a tightly written yet…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Issue 83, James Norcliffe, Longacre Press, Mandy Hager, Maurice Gee, Puffin, Random House, Spring 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Strange worlds, Heather Murray
Song of the Brakeman Bill Direen Titus Books, $29.95, ISBN 0958258678 The Assassin of Gleam James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN1877270997 Departure Lounge Chad Taylor Jonathan Cape, $34.99, ISBN 9780224075047 Southern Style Craig Marriner Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 1869417100 It never…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Bill Direen, Chad Taylor, Craig Marriner, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 77, James Norcliffe, Jonathan Cape, Titus Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Hearing the voice, James Norcliffe
The Singing Harp Iain Sharp Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420365 The Dwarf and the Stripper and other poems Stephen Sinclair Addenda, $19.95, ISBN 095821865X To … Bill Dacker Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420357 Many…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bill Dacker, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Iain Sharp, Issue 66, James Norcliffe, Stephen Sinclair, Winter 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Sharpening the blade, Anna Livesey
Someone else’s life Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869403045 Rat Tickling James Norcliffe Sudden Valley Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958209146 How To Occupy Ourselves David Howard and Fiona Pardington HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473-094363 Someone else’s life is a sort…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, David Howard, Fiona Pardington, HeadworX, Issue 62, James Norcliffe, Kapka Kassabova, Sudden Valley Press, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Referencing the self, James Norcliffe
Storyteller Simon Williamson HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473086220 Boat People Tim Jones HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087456 Chantal’s Book Jack Ross HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473087448 Through his Wellington HeadworX publishing house Mark Pirie has become something of a phenomenon in recent years…
Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 58, Jack Ross, James Norcliffe, Simon Williamson, Tim Jones, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – James Norcliffe
made objects as you stroke this smoothness into warmth your finger will meet no resistance the marks of the plane will have been sanded away with glass paper there will be an application of the molasses-coloured oil with this soft…
Willow pattern poetry, Mark Pirie
A Kind of Kingdom James Norcliffe Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 351 8 James Norcliffe lives in Christchurch – a place that has, in
recent years, become a hive of poetic activity. Its pub-lishers such as Sudden Valley…
Tagged with: Issue 37, James Norcliffe, Mark Pirie, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Poem – James Norcliffe
dog days they would lie out of the sun, separately panting pelts deep under cars or cloistered, if they dared, under deserted verandahs or car-ports their heads would swivel lazily without focus or interest, now at night they gather into…