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The life and the work, Martin Edmond
In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say A Lot: Selected Fiction Greville Texidor, (Kendrick Smithyman ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562268 All The Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor And New Zealand Margot Schwass Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776562251 In April…
Tagged with: Greville Texidor, Issue 128, Kendrick Smithyman, Margot Schwass, Martin Edmond, Summer 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Whose history? Simon Hay
wThe Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World Helen Bones Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781988531175 The Expatriates Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781988533179 Helen Bones aims to dismantle the “myth” that New Zealand writers, in…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen Bones, Issue 123, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Simon Hay, Spring 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Carnival anarchists, Martin Edmond
Goneville: A Memoir Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $39.00, ISBN 9781927249543 This Explains Everything Richard von Sturmer Atuanui Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780994137609 The authors of these two books have a few things in common: they were both born in late 1950s…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Autumn 2017, Awa Press, Issue 117, Martin Edmond, Nick Bollinger, Richard von Sturmer
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The archaeologist of memory, Ingrid Horrocks
The Dreaming Land Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780908321490 The Dreaming Land is Martin Edmond’s first full-length work of autobiography, but he’s been working in the territory of life writing and memoir for a long time. He is…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Bridget Williams Books, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 113, Martin Edmond
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Mingling the sacred and the profane, Martin Edmond
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573098 Oddly enough – or perhaps not – when this book arrived at my door I remembered one of the more arcane…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harry Ricketts, Issue 112, Martin Edmond, Penguin Books, Summer 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Looking for home, David Cohen
Barefoot Years Martin Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9781927277676 On Coming Home Paula Morris Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321117 Somewhere in the course of his perceptive career, in what one assumes was a more or less idle moment,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 111, Martin Edmond, Paula Morris, Spring 2015
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, 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
Dreaming and aching, Ashleigh Young
The Place of Stones Martin Edmond The Holloway Press, $275.00, ISBN 9780986461866 Jumping Ship and Other Essays Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9781877577765 When Martin Edmond picks up a piece of schist from Alaska – in which are embedded…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 103, Martin Edmond, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts, The Holloway Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Self-portrait with encounters, Martin Edmond
Touchstones: A Memoir James McNeish Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 9781869799328 The first book I was ever asked to review, way back in the early 1970s, was James McNeish’s Mackenzie – a work as idiosyncratic, obdurate and strange as the man it…
Tagged with: Issue 99, James McNeish, Martin Edmond, Spring 2012, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
What we call the past, Martin Edmond
The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso Peter Wells Vintage, $49.99, ISBN 9781869794743 Give Your Thoughts Life: William Colenso’s Letters to the Editor Ian St George (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877578144 The Greek word historia, from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Ian St George, Issue 97, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Peter Wells, Vintage, William Colenso
Posted in Biography, History, Letters
Posted in Biography, History, Letters
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