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Listening for the voice, Janet Hughes
Coming to it: Selected Poems Sam Hunt Potton and Burton, $30.00, ISBN 9780947503802 Poeta: Selected and New Poems Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988531281 Watching for the Wingbeat: New and Selected Poems Pat White Cold Hub Press, $40.00,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Cilla McQueen, Issue 125, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Pat White, Potton and Burton, Sam Hunt
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
Putting yourself on the line, Christine Johnson
The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404765 How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging Pat White Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736383 “[A] memoir is how one remembers one’s own…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Christine Johnston, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 95, Pat White, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Delicate flowers of the wasteland, Les Cleveland
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing in the Second World War Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 1869403363 Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Reality Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 0143019856 Western Front: The New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Deborah Montgomerie, HarperCollins, Ian McGibbon, Issue 71, Jonathan King, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Megan Hutching, Michael Bowers, Pat White, Penguin Books, Random House, Red Books, Reed Books, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Niche poets, Pat White
Islands of Intimacy, Love Poems 1970-2000 Denys Trussell Addenda, $22.95, ISBN 0958218617 The Albatross is Dead: Sixty Sonnets Peter Dane Hudson Cresset, $22.95, ISBN 0959789456 Dark Out of Darkness Guyon Neutze Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228109 b.1943 G J Melling…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bumper Books, Denys Trussell, G J Melling, Guyon Neutze, Hudson Cresset, Issue 50, October 2001, Pat White, Peter Dane, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Trusting the peripheral vision, John Allison
Unmanned Stephen Oliver HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0 473 05753 0 Pingandy Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0 473 05752 2 Drought and other intimacies Pat White Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1 877228 15 X On surveying trips, my father taught…
Tagged with: Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Issue 43, Pat White, Steele Roberts, Stephen Oliver
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review