Five Limericks on Grief When I see a young boy and his dad, I’m brought back to the one that I had. They seem charged, holographic. Then I lose them in traffic, and it leaves me reflective and sad. There…
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The novelist as poet, Nick Ascroft
Lazy Wind Poems Graham Lindsay Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869402855 Moody Bitch Stephanie Johnson Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 1869621050 Vanilla Wine Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734719 Summer on the Cote d’Azur Alistair Paterson HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 04730980244…
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Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Geoff Cochrane, Godwit, Graham Lindsay, HeadworX, Issue 64, Nick Ascroft, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
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Eczema and ampersands, Janet Hughes
Sing-song Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869402952 Electric Yachts Tony Beyer Puriri Press, $26, ISBN 0908943253 Nonsense Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734514 Imagine a sequence of 80-odd poems centred on a case of eczema. That’s…
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Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Janet Hughes, Nick Ascroft, Puriri Press, Tony Beyer, Victoria University Press
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Poem – Nick Ascroft
The rhythm method, Paola Bilbrough
From the Author of Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733887 Animals Indoors Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733895 A close-up of a bat’s face and prehensile paws adorn the cover of Nick Ascroft’s first collection…
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Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Nick Ascroft, Paola Bilbrough, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
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