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Editorial – Issue 38
Salute to Lauris Edmond On behalf of New Zealand Books, we’d like to offer Lauris Edmond our very best wishes on her 75th birthday, which she celebrated in April. At the same time, we’d like to express our appreciation of…
She made a good end, Roger Robinson
Late Song Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 235 9 The obsequies are over, the elegies written, and we reluctantly begin to think of Wellington without her. Seven months after a death that caused more public grief…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Lauris Edmond, Roger Robinson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Double life, Lauris Edmond
The Blind Impress Michael Jackson Dunmore Press $29.95 ISBN 0 8646307 9 Supposing that one of a reviewers tasks is to interpret, I begin by imagining how a reader will first encounter The Blind Impress in a bookshop. The cover…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 34, Lauris Edmond, Michael Jackson
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
In the inscrutable shadows, Lauris Edmond
Both Roads Taken John Allison Sudden Valley Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 473 04340 8 Pools over Stone Helen Jacobs Sudden Valley Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 473 03996 6 Always Arriving David Gregory Sudden Valley Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 473 03994…
Tagged with: David Gregory, Helen Jacobs, Issue 30, John Allison, John O’Connor, Lauris Edmond, Sudden Valley Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Lauris Edmond
Matinee So, he’s a scholar; decent chap too — takes his small granddaughter to the movies (the family’s in town for a week); chooses ‘Sleeping Beauty’, cartoon version, faces of evil now merely ill-tempered. The lights dim; but she’s restless.…
Affirming lucidity — Edmond’s ‘wisdom poetry’, Ken Arvidson
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
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Who criticises the critics?, Lauris Edmond
Whole Men Kai Jensen Auckland University Press 1996 $34.95 ISBN 186940145x A R D Fairburn Selected Poems Mac Jackson (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 2937 Denis Glover Selected Poems Bill Manhire (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473…
Tagged with: A R D Fairburn, Auckland University Press, Bill Manhire, Denis Glover, Issue 23, Kai Jensen, Lauris Edmond, Mac Jackson, Spring 1996, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Ending the century, Lauris Edmond
Fête Accomplie a New Zealander’s Culinary Romance Peta Mathias Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869412486 Here is a test. Do you order your dinner in a restaurant in the French of the menu or do you use the small print translation…
Tagged with: Issue 20, Lauris Edmond, Peta Mathias, Random House, Summer 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Triumph in the regions, Lauris Edmond
Women’s Book Festival In the first week of October this year a major national institution will make its annual appearance. In libraries, theatres, halls of various kinds, cafes and school rooms, in large cities and smaller towns all over the…
Lauris Edmond: (Not) getting to know them
Christina Stead: A Biography Hazel Rowley Heinemann Australia, $A49.95 Riffs Dennis Lee Brick Books, Box 38 Station B, London Ontario Canada N6A 4V3 The only way for an Australian writer to make an impression in New Zealand is to come…
Tagged with: Brick Books, Christina Stead, Dennis Lee, Heinemann Australia, Issue 13, Lauris Edmond, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry