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Warning and consolation, Mark Houlahan
Selected Poems Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408596 If you dine at Ian Wedde’s, the poetic indications are you’ll eat well. Among the many charms of this seductive, fatly packed Selected Poems are the number of food groups…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Wedde, Issue 127, Mark Houlahan, Spring 2019
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Plays and playmaking, Mark Houlahan
Performing Dramaturgy Fiona Graham Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607648 Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell ISBN 9781988531076 Dawn Raids Oscar Kightley Playmarket, $18.00, ISBN 97809080607631 “What is a dramaturg?” I overheard that question earlier this year…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Fiona Graham, Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mark Houlahan, Oscar Kightley, Playmarket, Summer 2018
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
The play’s the thing, Mark Houlahan
Best Playwriting Book Ever Roger Hall Playmarket, $22.00, ISBN 9780908607600 Shift Alison Quigan, Vivienne Plumb and Lynda Chanwai-Earle Playmarket, $35.00, ISBN 9780908607617 Bats Plays Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden Playmarket, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560899 To review Best Playwriting Book Ever, I…
Tagged with: Alison Quigan, Issue 119, Ken Duncum, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Mark Houlahan, Playmarket, Rebecca Rodden, Roger Hall, Spring 2017, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Stories on stage, Mark Houlahan
The Plays of Bruce Mason: A Survey John Smythe Playmarket and Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560554 Here/Now: 8 Plays by Award-Winning New Zealand Playwrights David O’Donnell (ed) Playmarket, $35.00, ISBN 9780908 607594 John Smythe’s survey of the plays of…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Issue 116, John Smythe, Mark Houlahan, Playmarket, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Constant fizz and playful grace, Mark Houlahan
Alan Brunton: Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Poems 1968-2002 Michele Leggott and Martin Edmond (eds) Titus Books, $38.00, ISBN 9781877441479 Sweeping the Courtyard: The Selected Poems of Michael Harlow Michael Harlow Cold Hub Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780473274207 My first Red Mole…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Cold Hub Press, Issue 110, Mark Houlahan, Martin Edmond, Michael Harlow, Michele Leggott, Titus Books, Winter 2015
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Phrases that catch the breath, Mark Houlahan
Heartland Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869408084 In 2007, Leggott was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate; in England, there is a long tradition of poets laureate being crowned at the point in their careers where the muse has…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 106, Mark Houlahan, Michele Leggott, Winter 2014
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Time’s wingèd chariot, Mark Houlahan
Us, Then Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780867438929 The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-20013 Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407698 Life and Customs Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739001 “But at my back I always hear…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Ian Wedde, Issue 104, Mark Houlahan, Summer 2013, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Moving the world along, Mark Houlahan
These Rough Notes Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864738318 Selected Poems Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737625 “In the future,” Bill Manhire predicts, while introducing his sweeping 2005 anthology of…
Tagged with: Anne Noble, Autumn 2013, Bill Manhire, Hannah Griffin, Issue 101, Mark Houlahan, Norman Meehan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Strip-mines and elegies, Mark Houlahan
Slip Stream Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404628 Crumple Vivienne Plumb Seraph Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473177171 Time of the Icebergs David Eggleton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578021 The Radio Room Cilla McQueen Otago University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, Issue 95, Mark Houlahan, Otago University Press, Paula Green, Seraph Press, Spring 2011, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Time out, Mark Houlahan
Chinese Opera Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735850 When a story by Ian Wedde called “Chinese Opera” was published in Sport 2, readers were informed that he expected to “finish Chinese Opera, his fourth novel, in 1989.” Nineteen…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Ian Wedde, Issue 85, Mark Houlahan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review