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Playing at home, John McCrystal
Pearly Gates: A Novel Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143773153 “Pride goeth before a fall”, so the proverb runs, “and an haughty spirit before destruction”. The prideful one in Owen Marshall’s latest novel is Pat Gates, universally known as “Pearly”.…
Tagged with: Issue 126, John McCrystal, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2019
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Thoughts well-wrought, Damian Love
View from the South Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney photographer) Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9780143771845 It often seems to be the case that novelists, when they turn to verse, move with a more relaxed gait, a less self-conscious regard, than those whose…
Tagged with: Damian Love, Grahame Sydney, Issue 123, Owen Marshall, Spring 2018, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“Loneliness was his condition”, Owen Marshall
Notes From the Margins: The West Coast’s Peter Hooper Pat White Frontiers Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780473380663 A journey is a kind of endless forgetting. The boys lived only in the present, seeking a river crossing, probing a thorny thicket for…
Tagged with: Frontiers Press, Issue 120, Owen Marshall, Pat White, Summer 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, 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
Walking in the real world, Owen Marshall
Dad Art Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560561 Acoustic engineer Michael Stirling is divorced, in contact through a dating site with apparently grieving Chrissie, tending a father in a dementia unit, living in Wellington’s Sanctum Apartments having lost…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 114, Owen Marshall, Victoria University Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ticking on by, Catherine Robertson
Carnival Sky Owen Marshall Vintage, $38.00 ISBN 9781775535827 The White Clock Owen Marshall Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578632 Both of Marshall’s latest works centre on confrontations with mortality, and both do a fine job of showing that these are…
Tagged with: Catherine Robertson, Issue 108, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Summer 2014, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Life in the bush, by the bay, Dougal McNeill
Speaking Frankly: The Frank Sargeson Memorial Lectures 2003-2010 Sarah Shieff (ed) Cape Catley, $31.99, ISBN 9781877340277 Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, $162.00, ISBN 9780230277731 It was a…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Cape Catley, Christine Cole Catley, Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Gerri Kimber, Issue 98, Janet Wilson, Katherine Mansfield, Lawrence Jones, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Wells, Sarah Shieff, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2012
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Open secrets, Heather Roberts
The Larnachs Owen Marshall Random House, $39.99, ISBN 978869794972 Meet the Larnachs: Owen Marshall’s choice of title is revealing in its use of the definite article and the plural. Generally, those who know the name Larnach know only one…
Tagged with: Heather Roberts, Issue 95, Owen Marshall, Random House, Spring 2011
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Always a price to pay, Elspeth Sandys
Living as a Moon Owen Marshall Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869792510 Opening Owen Marshall’s latest collection of short stories, beginning, somewhat apprehensively, to read, I wondered if the faint niggle I always feel when I read Marshall’s work would stay with…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 91, Owen Marshall, Spring 2010, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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