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Infectious enjoyment, Fleur Adcock
Night Burns with a White Fire: The Essential Lauris Edmond Frances Edmond and Sue Fitchett (eds) Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493448 This enjoyable anthology doesn’t pretend to be anything but an act of loving homage; as the editors admit, they…
Tagged with: Frances Edmond, Issue 119, Lauris Edmond, Night Burns, Spring 2017, Steele Roberts, Sue Fitchett
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poems in the classroom, Jo Kahl
Essential New Zealand Poems ed Lauris Edmond and Bill Sewell Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620879 Why is it that fictional teachers are always teachers of English? How many times do you see on television or at the movies teachers attempting to…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Godwit, Issue 50, Jo Kahl, Lauris Edmond, October 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – W H Oliver
Blue Irises for Lauris Edmond After, appropriately, several false turnings and twice overshooting the mark I was there, on the shorn grass looking around at the hills uncertain, suitably too, which of the freshly turned patches of dirt embraced…
More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The Truth Problem, Anne French
An Autobiography Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 18772421225 Lauris Edmond: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ed K O Arvidson Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242152 There’s only one issue to be resolved with autobiography, and that is the Truth Problem.…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 2001, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 53, K O Arvidson, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Poems – Lauris Edmond
from Carnival of New Zealand Creatures tuatara The old survivor, tuatara, reptilian great-grandfather, observing with heavy-lidded eye the still old centuries passing by; slow little bloke in enamel coat shedding his tail, croaking his croak, his third eye watching world…
Obituary – Lauris Edmond
Lauris Edmond (1924 – 2000) Lauris Edmond died at home without warning on Friday 28 January 2000. We lost a major poet, an accomplished woman of letters, and a marvellous personality. The shock that united mourners in Old St Paul’s…
Poems for the pocket, Vivienne Plumb
50 Poems: A Celebration Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books/Peppercorn Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877 242 039 It is good to mark our lives with some celebration, which
is why we should welcome this celebratory collection of Lauris Edmond’s work marking…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 41, Lauris Edmond, Peppercorn Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 40
Beyond the silencing process Lauris Edmond It’s said that as you grow older you become more au fait with the past than the present. Along with many other myths of aging, this one does not fit my experience – or…
Generous to a fault, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jane Stafford, Lauris Edmond, March 2001, Oxford University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review