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Raymond Chandler meets Alfred Bester, Michael Morrissey
Hold My Teeth While I Teach You to Dance Mike Johnson 99% Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780994101518 Mike Johnson is one of our most gifted novelists, yet he has been curiously neglected. I suspect the problem is his bold originality. Each…
Tagged with: 99% Press, Issue 111, Michael Morrissey, Mike Johnson, Spring 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Hooves of unicorns clattering, Eleanor Toland
The Disestablishment of Paradise Phillip Mann Victor Gollancz, $37.00, ISBN 9780575132627 The Last Sanctuary P S Mokha Tangerine Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9780987664655 Tropic of Skorpeo Michael Morrissey Steam Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780987663535 Fantasy and science fiction are genres often underrepresented…
Tagged with: Eleanor Toland, Issue 102, Michael Morrissey, P S Mokha, Phillip Mann, Steam Press, Tangerine Publications, Victor Gollancz, Winter 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Cracking up, David Cohen
Taming the Tiger: A Personal Encounter with Manic Depression Michael Morrissey Polygraphia, $39.00, ISBN 9781877332968 Sing No Sad Songs Sandra Arnold Canterbury University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927145067 Michael Morrissey’s account of his long encounter with mental affliction begins…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Cohen, Issue 98, Michael Morrissey, Polygraphia, Sandra Arnold, Winter 2012
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Part character study, part thriller, Michael Morrissey
Believers to the Bright Coast Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 14 028027 8 Like such men of letters as C K Stead and Ian Wedde, Vincent O’Sullivan has been fruitfully exploring all the major literary genres – poetry, short…
Tagged with: Issue 38, Michael Morrissey, Penguin, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Colonising impulses with flair, Iain Sharp
Paradise to Come Michael Morrissey HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 252 3 Although he has also been a prolific poet during the past three decades, Michael Morrissey is known chiefly as the author of quirky, “experimental” short stories influenced by…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Ian Sharp, Issue 30, Michael Morrissey, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A rare breed, Michael Morrissey
The literary politician. Sounds faintly implausible? Like a ballerina plumber or a crocheting bricklayer? I am referring of course to the politician who writes poems, novels or plays rather than the politician who is a mere apologist, pamphleteer or self…
Modernist genius or drunken lecher? Michael Morrissey
Lethal Dose Mike Johnson, Hard Echo Press, $27.95 While official feminism may be liberating and strengthening women, it is having an unfortunate effect on male writers, artists and intellectuals. Many males now cravenly play to the feminist ears and eyes…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Hard Echo Press, Issue 8, Michael Morrissey, Mike Johnson
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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No ordinary son, Janet Hunt and Michael Morrissey
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