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Fragments of possible worlds, David Gregory
Fourteen Reasons for Writing Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 18877270080 It may not possess the weight of historical significance of The Kennedy Question, but I asked myself, “where were you when Kevin Ireland’s first book of poetry (Face to…
Tagged with: David Gregory, December 2001, Hazard Press, Issue 51, Kevin Ireland
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Falling on his feet, Patrick Evans
Backwards to Forwards: A Memoir Kevin Ireland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414993 Some time in 1986 (I think it was), Kevin Ireland turned up at the University of Canterbury English Department as writer-in-residence. What returns to the memory is a series…
Tickled and moved, Peter Vere-Jones
Under the Bridge & Over the Moon Kevin Ireland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 363 6 bums on seats: The Backstage Story Roger Hall Penguin, $44.95, ISBN 0 670 88366 2 What makes a writer? As requested, I read these…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Kevin Ireland, Penguin Books, Peter Vere-Jones, Roger Hall, Vintage
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Great expectations, John McCrystal
The Dream of Nikau Jam Peter Hawes Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 421 7 The Craymore Affair Kevin Ireland Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 426 8 One of the great fears among actors is being typecast, bound up in the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, John McCrystal, Kevin Ireland, Peter Hawes, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Always some bastard has to spoil it, Kate Camp
Anzac Day Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 087716111 X The title of Kevin Ireland’s selected poems, Anzac Day, suggested to me a rather bloke’s, public kind of poetry, a poetry of momentous occasions with perhaps a hint of speechifying.…
What might he have become? Iain Sharp
The Man Who Never Lived Kevin Ireland Vintage, $24.95 ISBN 1 86941 325 3 Kevin Ireland begins his second novel in classic thriller mode. While taking his daily constitutional walk along the waterfront of Mt Matheson (an affluent seaside community…
Distracting rhetoric, Janet Hughes
Blowing My Top Kevin Ireland Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 25645 8 The opening of Blowing My Top discovers the hero, Darby Fulljames, in full cry, venting his discontent at his bankruptcy, disgrace and incarceration. Reading it, I couldn’t…
Tagged with: Issue 27, Janet Hughes, Kevin Ireland, Penguin Books, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Skin and bones, Tom Beard
Skinning a Fish Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 The cover illustration ‑ a cold blue etching of a grotesque deep‑sea fish screwed to a ragged knife ‑ is a spare and disturbing image that hints at a hard edge to…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 16, Kevin Ireland, Summer 1994, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion