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The Hutt Valley takes Manhattan … Murray Bramwell
Book Of Cohen David Cohen Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493882 Book Of Cohen is a singular volume with multiple objectives: “This was always going to be a work by one Cohen (that would be me) on another Cohen (that would…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Issue 127, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2019, Steele Roberts
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Jewels and binoculars, Murray Bramwell
Blood Ties: New and Selected Poems 1963–2016 Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Canterbury University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927145883 Dylan Junkie Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780994137807 It is a harsh fact that we live in a world where there is…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 120, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Mākaro Press, Murray Bramwell, Summer 2017
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Love and war, Murray Bramwell
Love as a Stranger Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775538578 The Antipodeans Greg McGee Upstart Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781927262030 In his captivating new novel, Love as a Stranger, Owen Marshall immediately greets the reader with portents. The epigraph quotes the…
Tagged with: Greg McGee, Issue 114, Murray Bramwell, Owen Marshall, Upstart Press, Vintage, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
eSensual readings, Murray Bramwell
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe and Harry Ricketts (eds) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775534594 So what makes poems essential? In their introduction to this most appealing collection, the three editors mull over the problem…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 109, James Norcliffe, Murray Bramwell, Siobhan Harvey
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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
Through the unknown, remembered gate, Murray Bramwell
South-West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404543 It was T S Eliot in “East Coker” who wrote: “In my beginning is my end.” In a quite different, earlier poem, he produced the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Issue 91, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2010
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Life cycles, Murray Bramwell
Somebody Loves Us All Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864736161 The title of Damien Wilkins’ sixth novel, Somebody Loves Us All, comes from a line by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. The poem is called “Filling Station”…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Damien Wilkins, Issue 89, Murray Bramwell, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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