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Here and now, Tom Beard
Scenes from a Small City Lauris Edmond, Daphne Brassell Associates, $24.95 Lauris Edmond’s poems have always conveyed a strong sense of time and place, so it is no surprise that in a volume based around life in Wellington the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Daphne Brassell Associates, Issue 12, Lauris Edmond, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The Independent Outlook, Lauris Edmond
This is the text of a graduation address given to the School of Humanities, Waikato University, in April this year. There was a time when New Zealanders were, or appeared to be, a peaceful people. We did what we…
Shedding light on an unknown place, Lauris Edmond
Maud and Amber, A New Zealand mother and daughter and the Women’s Cause, 1865 to 1981 Ruth Fry, Canterbury University Press, $29.95 Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil Mihi Edwards, Penguin, $24.95 For the past twenty years or so historians and biographers…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Canterbury University Press, Issue 8, Lauris Edmond, Mihi Edwards, Penguin, Ruth Fry
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Simple fact or subtle fiction? William Broughton
The Quick World, Autobiography Volume 3 Lauris Edmond, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 The Quick World completes Lauris Edmond’s promised autobiographical trilogy, and documents the most recent 15 or so years of her life. I find that I have come more…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Summer 1992, William Broughton
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The fall of a decent joker, Michael Gifkins
The Autobiography of My Father Martin Edmond, Auckland University Press, $29.95 There is an entry in the book of New Zealand literary politics which reads: Edmond, Trevor, schoolteacher, husband of Lauris, poet (late-flowering); father of (inter alia) Martin, scriptwriter, see…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Martin Edmond, Michael Gifkins, Summer 1992, Trevor Edmond
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Fins and feathers, Lauris Edmond
Wade Doak’s World of New Zealand Fishes Hodder & Stoughton, 1991, $49.95 New Zealand’s Extinct Birds Brian Gill and Paul Martinson, Random Century, 1991, $49.95 A Field Guide to New Zealand Birds Geoff Moon, Reed Books, 1992, $34.95 Before I…
Editorial – Issue 6
John Mansfield Thomson, who resigned from the Peppercorn Press in June, was the founding editor of New Zealand Books. The journal began as an idea of his; in making its first impact, and throughout the first 18 months of publication,…
Three assured poets, Janet Wilson
Wakeful Nights: Poems Selected and New Fiona Kidman, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 New and Selected Poems Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Time Zones Fleur Adcock, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 In their range and assurance these…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Fleur Adcock, Issue 5, Janet Wilson, Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Vintage, Winter 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Autobiography of grace and clarity, Andrew Mason
Bonfires in the Rain Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991, $27.95 In outline, the story Lauris Edmond has to tell in this, her second volume of autobiography, would be typical of many New Zealand women who married about the…
Tagged with: Andrew Mason, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 2, Lauris Edmond, Winter 1991
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Rather like New Zealanders, Lauris Edmond
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