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Sounds like us, Harry Ricketts
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance Jack Ross and Jan Kemp (eds) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403676 Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance Jack Ross and Jan Kemp (eds) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403959 Wordsworth had a Northern…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 80, Jack Ross, Jan Kemp, Summer 2007
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bubble jets of yearning, Murray Bramwell
Dante’s Heaven Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $30.00, ISBN 090894330X Beauty Sleep Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735111 The Gas Leak Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403568 In the fragile world of poetry publishing it is always…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Jan Kemp, Kate Camp, Murray Bramwell, Puriri Press, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
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Poem – Jan Kemp
Staunch (i.m. Michael King 1945 – 2004 & Maria Jungowska 1949 – 2004) I’d have wished you a gentler death in keeping with generosity & deft, liquid speech, yours of right, Michael, not this bizarre fireballing out, though your…
Poem – Jan Kemp
from Two tohunga waiata on one crescent “Writing is learning how to die” – Ilse Aichinger Purely accidental the addresses were similar only the street numbers differed and the minds of the men and what they said under the…
Fruit ‘n nut, Emma Neale
Only One Angel Jan Kemp University of Otago Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877276170 Snowing Down South Janet Charman Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402685 After publishing a poem in a church magazine, and receiving messages from people all over the country…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Issue 56, Jan Kemp, Janet Charman, Otago University Press, Summer 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Down memory lane, Bernadette Hall
Axis: Poems & Drawings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877276065 The Sky’s Enormous Jug Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $24.00, ISBN 0908943199 Stairdancing Janet Hughes Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159077 It was a rather odd experience writing this particular…
Tagged with: Bernadette Hall, Cilla McQueen, Issue 52, Jan Kemp, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Puriri Press, Summer 2002, Wai-te-ata Press
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Jan Kemp
Rain The night you flew away it rained soft rain to veil your going rain which knows you’ll return. I’ll be there on the other side of the glass in your reflection when you look for me in this…
A pre-occupation with family, Ronda Cooper
Swimmers, Dancers Michelle Leggott, Auckland University Press, 1991, $16.95 The Other Hemisphere Jan Kemp, Three Continents Press/ Brick Row Publishing, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Orpheus and other poems Meg Campbell, Te Kotare Press, Pukerua Bay, 1990, $15.95 Michelle Leggott’s second collection…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brick Row Publishing, Issue 3, Jan Kemp, Meg Campbell, Michelle Leggott, Ronda Cooper, Spring 1991, Te Kotare Press, Three Continents Press
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review