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An account of trauma, Michael Hulse
Allen Curnow: Collected Poems Elizabeth Caffin and Terry Sturm (eds) Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869408510 Allen Curnow’s poetry is a transcript of trauma. “Morning by morning incorruption / Puts on corruption”: this most fundamental of thoughts, borne in upon…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Elizabeth Caffin, Issue 121, Michael Hulse, Terry Sturm
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poetry and the poem, Michael Hulse
Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560660 If I begin by saying that Jenny Bornholdt gives the impression of being a very modest person, it’s not because this review is to be an assessment of her character,…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Jenny Bornholdt, Michael Hulse, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tireless affectionate scrutiny, Michael Hulse
Being Here: Selected Poems Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9780864739315 Let the Writer Stand Judith Dell Panny Steele Roberts, $30.00 ISBN 9781927242803 Vincent O’Sullivan is a writer of such prodigious gifts that the Collected Poems I can’t be…
Tagged with: Issue 112, Judith Dell Panny, Michael Hulse, Steele Roberts, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Finding the poetry, Michael Hulse
Gleam Sarah Broom Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407704 The Baker’s Thumbprint Paula Green Seraph Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473236311 Family Songbook John Newton Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738394 Enough Louise Wallace Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739131 The sad…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2014, Issue 105, John Newton, Louise Wallace, Michael Hulse, Paula Green, Sarah Broom, Seraph Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Late style, Michael Hulse
The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 103, Michael Hulse, Peter Bland, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Punching above its poetic weight, Michael Hulse
99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry Paula Green and Harry Ricketts Vintage, $44.99, ISBN 9781869791780 First, let me get off my chest a grouch about the physical presentation of this book. It’s thick, it’s heavy, and it won’t open…
Tagged with: Harry Ricketts, Issue 94, Michael Hulse, Paula Green, Vintage, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Huddle and glut, Michael Hulse
Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998-2008 Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736062 In “Being here”, the first of the 44 new poems in this generous book, Vincent O’Sullivan states explicitly for the first time an important position: It has…
Tagged with: Issue 87, Michael Hulse, Spring 2009, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Sheering off, Michael Hulse
The Love School: Personal Essays Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780864735928 Paremata, the childhood novella which followed her debut novel After Z-Hour, was my own first encounter with Elizabeth Knox’s writing. The copy she gave me is inscribed…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 85, Michael Hulse, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The Dr Johnson of New Zealand literature, Michael Hulse
Book Self C K Stead Auckland University Press, $38.99, ISBN 9781869404123 It isn’t in the spirit of the age that a Goethe will still attract his Eckermann, or a Dr Johnson his Boswell. A companion free of all other commitments,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Issue 83, Michael Hulse, Spring 2008
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Intimations of mortality, Michael Hulse
Blame Vermeer Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735515 The Black River C K Stead Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 978869403850 Sol Andrew Johnston Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9789864735492 The Ponies Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, C K Stead, Hazard Press, Issue 79, Kevin Ireland, Michael Hulse, Spring 2007, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review