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How to keep your secret, Ken Arvidson

Posted on March 26, 2000 by NZ Books

What to call your child Bill Manhire Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1 86962 044 5 This attractive volume marks the end of Bill Manhire’s two-year term as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate. Because he has lived the role out so…

Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Godwit, Issue 42, Ken Arvidson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Sheer glitter, Ken Arvidson

Posted on December 28, 1998 by NZ Books

Seeing You Asked Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473352 6 Seeing You Asked is Vincent O’Sullivan’s tenth volume of new poetry, the first since The Pilate Tapes of 1986. In The Pilate Tapes and before that in…

Tagged with: Issue 36, Ken Arvidson, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Affirming lucidity — Edmond’s ‘wisdom poetry’, Ken Arvidson

Posted on October 30, 1996 by NZ Books

A Matter of Timing Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 140 9 In A Matter of Timing, Lauris Edmond’s first collection of new poems since the 1988 volume Summer Near the Arctic Circle, we find new depths…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1996, Issue 25, Ken Arvidson, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Creative use of language, Ken Arvidson

Posted on October 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Selected Stories Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Patricia Grace’s first two volumes of short stories, Waiariki (1975) and The Dream Sleepers (1980), and her first novel Mutuwhenua (1978), all contained glossaries giving the English meanings of the Maori…

Tagged with: Issue 3, Ken Arvidson, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, Spring 1991
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories