Mechanical grief And I see you, fortuitously, in the cheapest chicken lot in town, tucked hard against a corrugated fence, with your bald front tyres sponging in a wind flogged puddle. Sullen rain has washed the many days of…
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A Case of Identity, Owen Marshall
Clinging to the wreckage, Patrick Evans
Harlequin Rex Owen Marshall Random House/Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 395 4 Y2K is past, the computer and the fridge are still working, but in Owen Marshall’s new novel Harlequin Rex the millennium has unexpectedly tossed up another problem, an…
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Tagged with: Issue 39, Owen Marshall, Patrick Evans, Random House, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“More or less lovely”, Owen Marshall
To bed at noon: the life and art of Maurice Duggan Ian Richards Auckland University Press $49.95 ISBN 1 86940159 X There was a changing of the guard in New Zealand literature in the seventies and eighties, and one sign…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Richards, Issue 33, Maurice Duggan, Owen Marshall
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Balm for TV’s dissolution, David Eggleton
Lands and Deeds Gregory O’Brien Godwit Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 908877 68 4 Timeless Land Graham Sydney, Brian Turner and Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 0 9583405 5 2 100 New Zealand Paintings Warwick Brown Godwit Press, $75.00, ISBN…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Brian Turner, David Eggleton, Godwit Press, Graham Sydney, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 25, Longacre Press, Owen Marshall, Warwick Brown
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
In short, a master stylist, Bill Sewell
Coming Home in the Dark Owen Marshall Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 186941 266 4 A Many Coated Man Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 9583405 2 8 Is it unfair to say that there’s such a thing as a typical…
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Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 21, Longacre Press, Owen Marshall, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From trad old to power web, Lydia Wevers
mum Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin Books, $24.95 ISBN 0 140 25244 4 A Many Coated Man Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 9583405 2 8 Crossroads Janice Marriott Reed Children’s Books, $14.95 ISBN 1 86948 928 4 My mother didn’t…
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Tagged with: Issue 21, Janice Marriott, Longacre Press, Lydia Wevers, Owen Marshall, Penguin Book, Reed Children's Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Chinese takeaways, Anne French
Maidenhome Ding Xiaoqi Otago University Press, $24.95 The Chinese Interpreter James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $24.95 Burning Boats: seventeen New Zealand short stories Owen Marshall (ed) Longman Paul, $19.95 We’ve all become experts on China in the past year or two,…
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Tagged with: Anne French, Ding Xiaoqi, Hazard Press, Issue 15, James Norcliffe, Longman Paul, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review