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Balancing pathos, Janet Wilson
This Mortal Boy: A Novel Fiona Kidman Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771807 In This Mortal Boy (with its subtle, sad echo of Brendan Behan’s novel, Borstal Boy), Fiona Kidman gives a semi-fictional reconstruction of the highly publicised case of…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 123, Janet Wilson, Penguin Random House, Spring 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Literary contradictions, Alistair Fox
Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s Literary Traditions Melissa Kennedy Rodopi ISBN 9789042033573 Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa (eds) Edinburgh University Press ISBN 9780748669097 In Striding Both Worlds, Melissa…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Delia da Sousa Correa, Edinburgh University Press, Gerri Kimber, Issue 107, Janet Wilson, Melissa Kennedy, Rodopi, Spring 2014
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Life in the bush, by the bay, Dougal McNeill
Speaking Frankly: The Frank Sargeson Memorial Lectures 2003-2010 Sarah Shieff (ed) Cape Catley, $31.99, ISBN 9781877340277 Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, $162.00, ISBN 9780230277731 It was a…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Cape Catley, Christine Cole Catley, Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Gerri Kimber, Issue 98, Janet Wilson, Katherine Mansfield, Lawrence Jones, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Wells, Sarah Shieff, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2012
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
There and now, Janet Wilson
Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction Anna Jackson and Jane Stafford (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736017 The increased tempo of public debate in the last decade over issues such as public policy and the arts, canon…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Issue 88, Jane Stafford, Janet Wilson, Summer 2009, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Peeling away from the margins Janet Wilson
Red Leaves Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869403460 Fire-penny Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372066 Resistance Meg Campbell Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $16.95, ISBN 1869420578 This bouquet of verse demonstrates the flourishing talent of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Diana Bridge, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Issue 72, Janet Wilson, Meg Campbell, Otago University Press, Summer 2005
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The art of the odd, Janet Wilson
Swallowing Diamonds Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415485 In Marilyn Duckworth, New Zealand has its finest writer of the absurd. Although others have written about states of unreality or non-reality – most particularly Janet Frame, younger novelists like Elizabeth Knox,…
Tagged with: Issue 59, Janet Wilson, Marilyn Duckworth, Spring 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Desperate Dan, W H Oliver
Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin ed Janet Wilson Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228249 Before I start on the book, I will allow myself a grumble about the cover. This shows in the foreground a highlighted profile of Dan, characteristically…
Tagged with: Dan Davin, Issue 50, Janet Wilson, October 2001, Steele Roberts, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
To sing the last word, Janet Wilson
Oh There You Are Tui! New and Selected Poems Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734107 From the outset of her poetic career, one of the most promising debuts in recent New Zealand writing with It has No Sound…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Dinah Hawken, Issue 53, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review