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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
Something nobody counted on, Murray Bramwell
Travesty Mike Johnson (graphic art, Darren Sheehan) Titus Books, $39.00, ISBN 9781877441134 Fosterling Emma Neale Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869794859 Wulf Hamish Clayton Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143206491 Like many futuristic nightmares, the naming of the nihilistic Gaia…
Tagged with: Darren Sheehan, Emma Neale, Hamish Clayton, Issue 94, Mike Johnson, Murray Bramwell, Penguin Books, Titus Books, Vintage, Winter 2011
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Polishing a grubby art, Duncan Campbell
The Vertical Harp: Selected Poems of Li He Mike Johnson (retrans) Titus Books, $42.95, ISBN 9781877441035 By all accounts, the Chinese poet Li He, who died in 816 at the age of 26, was the oddest of the major poets…
Tagged with: Duncan Campbell, Issue 80, Mike Johnson, Summer 2007, Titus Books
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Screen play, Martin Edmond
On River Road Chris Else Random, $26.95, ISBN 1869416236 Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734808 Stench Mike Johnson Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270687 Three books, all works of fiction, all by men who will not see…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 67, Martin Edmond, Mike Johnson, Nigel Cox, Random, Spring 2004, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Packed collection of clues, Alan Loney
Treasure Hunt Mike Johnson Auckland University Press 1996, $19.95 ISBN 1 86940 141 7 It is often tempting to approach any new book of poetry as an example of either “mainstream” or “postmodern” work and assess it according to the…
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
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review