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The wisdom of things, Anna Smaill
The Yield Sue Wootton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780947522483 The Internet of Things Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561063 There is beauty to be had in yielding, Sue Wootton’s collection suggests, both to the natural world and…
Tagged with: Anna Smaill, Issue 120, Kate Camp, Otago University Press, Sue Wootton, Summer 2017, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Out of this world, Elizabeth Crayford
Snow White’s Coffin Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738882 The Odour of Sanctity Amy Brown Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738905 Snow White’s Coffin was written when Kate Camp held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency from September…
Tagged with: Amy Brown, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 103, Kate Camp, Spring 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Feminist with a small f, Siobhan Harvey
Walking to Africa Jessica Le Bas Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404468 Bloodclot Tusiata Avia Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735935 How to Live by the Sea Lynn Davidson Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735997 The Mirror of Simple Annihilated…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 91, Jessica Le Bas, Kate Camp, Lynn Davidson, Siobhan Harvey, Spring 2010, Tusiata Avia, Victoria University Press
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
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
If it’s claggy, it must be Wellington, Kim Griggs
Auckland: The city in literature ed Witi Ihimaera Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988362 Dunedin: The city in literature ed Christine Johnston Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988451 Christchurch: The city in literature ed Anna Rogers Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988427 Wellington:…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2004, Christine Johnston, Exisle Publishing, Issue 65, Kate Camp, Kim Griggs, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
The short story of non-fiction, Tony Simpson
When Famous People Come to Town Damien Wilkins On Kissing Kate Camp On Longing Vincent O’Sullivan Four Winds Press, $14.95 each, ISBN 0958237506; 0958237514; 0958237530 Shortly after these little books, none much longer than 50 pages, were published in September…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Four Winds Press, Issue 56, Kate Camp, Summer 2001, Tony Simpson, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Subliminal euphonies, Cilla McQueen
Realia Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734204 deep down musical hearts beat for no reason no apparent reason (“Beats”) I like the sound of Kate Camp. She has an ear for a harmonic beat within the…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, December 2001, Issue 51, Kate Camp, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Certainties/doubts, Kate Camp
the long road to teatime Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402235 Writing Lives – Ending Silences Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877161853 I have admired Anna Jackson’s poetry in various journals, and as part of the AUP…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Hazard Press, Issue 47, Kate Camp, March 2001, Mike Minehan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Kate Camp
Admit one Cranes like cranes above the city. The city is a poem that says no matter what boat you take you cannot find the boat to take you from yourself to yourself. The man who is part of…
The Gen-X factor, Kate Camp
Posted in Comment, Essays, Literature