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The life and the work, Martin Edmond
In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say A Lot: Selected Fiction Greville Texidor, (Kendrick Smithyman ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562268 All The Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor And New Zealand Margot Schwass Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776562251 In April…
Tagged with: Greville Texidor, Issue 128, Kendrick Smithyman, Margot Schwass, Martin Edmond, Summer 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The Italian job, David Groves
Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian Jack Ross and Marco Sonzogni (eds) Novi Ligure, Edizioni Joker,€ 20.00, ISBN 9788875362645 This book is the culmination of a project which began with the 1999 publication in Landfall of seven…
Tagged with: David Groves, Issue 95, Jack Ross, Kendrick Smithyman, Marco Sonzogni, Novi Ligure, Spring 2011
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Boy’s Own snapshots, Hugh Roberts
Imperial Vistas Family Fictions Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 186940274X Last Poems Kendrick Smithyman The Holloway Press, $65, ISBN 095823132X It’s an interesting parlour game to speculate how New Zealand’s literary history might have changed had Kendrick Smithyman…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Holloway Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 59, Kendrick Smithyman, Spring 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
With more to be said, Alan Riach
Atua Wera Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 157 3 A cynical critic, if asked whether Atua Wera should be described as Kendrick Smithyman’s masterpiece and one of New Zealand’s major poems, might reply like the Frenchman…
Tagged with: Alan Riach, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1997, Issue 29, Kendrick Smithyman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Puzzling over the best way to tell it, Kendrick Smithyman
The Singing Whakapapa C K Stead Penguin Books, $24.95 In February last year C K Stead spoke to the twenty-seventh Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association congress. He called his address “Narrativity, or the Birth of the Story” and published…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Issue 14, Kendrick Smithyman, Penguin Books, Winter 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ruminative chin music, David Eggleton
Auto/Biographies Kendrick Smithyman, Auckland University Press, $19.95 This is Kendrick Smithyman’s twelfth book of poetry. It continues and restates the themes of his recent collections, Stories About Wooden Keyboards and Are you Going to the Pictures? to the point…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 9, Kendrick Smithyman, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry