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A lonely Orpheus, Liam McIlvanney
The Snake-Haired Muse: James K Baxter and Classical Myth Geoffrey Miles, John Davidson and Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736581 “What happens is either meaningless to me, or it is mythology.” Though James K Baxter’s vatic pronouncement…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Geoffrey Miles, Issue 97, James K Baxter, John Davidson, Liam McIlvanney, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
The commonplace sublime, John Davidson
The Commonplace Odes Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402480 The Commonplace Odes is Ian Wedde’s first collection of poetry to appear since The Drummer (1993), and to a significant extent it owes its existence to the Roman poet…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Wedde, John Davidson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Stead among the Romans, John Davidson
The Right Thing C K Stead Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 221 9 On the dust jacket of his 1972 collection Crossing the Bar can be read the words: “C K Stead is not a prolific poet; …
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, C K Stead, Issue 45, John Davidson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review