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Gripping, lyrical Kidman, Janet Wilson
Ricochet Baby Fiona Kidman Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 304 0 Fiona Kidman is today more than ever in command of her craft. Ricochet Baby, her new novel— and first book since the semi-autobiographical volume, Palm Prints (1994) — will…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 27, Janet Wilson, Vintage, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Superb reconstruction, Janet Wilson
Glamour and the Sea Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 305 4 The cover is a racy, blown-up photograph of three youths with the unmistakeable look of an earlier generation; to the fore is the author’s father,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 25, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
When the twain did meet, Janet Wilson
The gigantic stage in the vast, half‑filled auditorium of the Moscow State Pedagogical University is dominated by an image of the head of Mikhail Bakhtin above the dates 1895 (the year of his birth) to 1995. At its edges stand…
Greater than the parts, Janet Wilson
Mr Fish and other stories Elizabeth Smither Macindoe, $24.95 Elizabeth Smither’s second collection of short fiction gathered from stories published in recent years, displays at first sight the unfussed, unfazable and whimsical qualities for which her poetry has often been…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 15, Janet Wilson, Macindoe, Spring 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Janet Wilson: Distinctive depictions of childhood
Pomare Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, 1994, $19.95 What is it about Elizabeth Knox’s writing that divides readers into devotees or detractors, into those who do and those who don’t enjoy her work? Her first novel, After Z‑Hour (1987), which…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 13, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Very Much a ‘Wellington’ piece? Janet Wilson
Janet Wilson discussed Phil Mann’s ‘The Poverty Trap’ with Rev Dr Penny Jamieson, Bishop of Dunedin. Dr Jamieson has recently served on the People’s Select Committee which enquired into the effects of benefit cuts, and other aspects of the National…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Janet Wilson, Phil Mann, Rev Dr Penny Jamieson, Spring 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Three assured poets, Janet Wilson
Wakeful Nights: Poems Selected and New Fiona Kidman, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 New and Selected Poems Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Time Zones Fleur Adcock, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 In their range and assurance these…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Fleur Adcock, Issue 5, Janet Wilson, Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Vintage, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review