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Shocks and conversations, Mark Williams
The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems Steve Braunias (ed) David Bateman, $25.00, ISBN 9780473450281 Short Poems of New Zealand Jenny Bornholdt (ed) Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776562022 Two new poetry anthologies: one featuring beautifully composed small poems selected…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 126, Jenny Bornholdt, Mark Williams, Steve Braunias, Winter 2019
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Grudging nationalist, Mark Williams
Charles Brasch: Journals 1945-1957 Peter Simpson (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781927322284 I approached this book rather in the spirit of someone visiting a civic monument to a figure august and admired, but obscurely known. In the late 1980s,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Charles Brasch, Issue 121, Mark Williams, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The quality question, Chris Else
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869405892 I have a conflict of interest here: I am one of those writers with a substantial body of published…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Chris Else, Issue 101, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Fiction’s odd couple, Mark Williams
Gifted Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736376 A curious rumour about this new novel by Patrick Evans preceded its publication. The rumour was that Evans had done something exceptionally good and it came from people one didn’t…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 92, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Patrick Evans, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rivers, repetition and reproaches
Mark Williams re-assesses his position on Ihimaera’s borrowings and reworkings. Reviewing a book on modernism by C K Stead in Landfall in 1986, Ken Ruthven revived the old saw that one cannot step in the same river twice, meaning that…
Dear Miss Williams, Mark Williams
Critic and literary historian Mark Williams describes how he learnt to love his feminine side Adolescents commonly write poetry, but they write poems to themselves rather than for an audience. If they write for others, it is usually to interest…
Lost writers revisited, Elizabeth Webby
Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 Jane Stafford and Mark Williams Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735227 In this excellent reassessment of an important phase of New Zealand’s literary and cultural history, Jane Stafford and Mark Williams challenge previous views of…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Webby, Issue 76, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams, Summer 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The operative words, Rae McGregor
Writing at the Edge of the Universe ed Mark Williams Canterbury University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877257311 I wonder if Patrick Evans realised, when he wrote that salty article about students from Bill Manhire’s Victoria University creative writing programme (New Zealand…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Canterbury University Press, Issue 69, Mark Williams, Rae McGregor
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Bovver boys
Posted in Comment