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A lonely Orpheus, Liam McIlvanney
The Snake-Haired Muse: James K Baxter and Classical Myth Geoffrey Miles, John Davidson and Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736581 “What happens is either meaningless to me, or it is mythology.” Though James K Baxter’s vatic pronouncement…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Geoffrey Miles, Issue 97, James K Baxter, John Davidson, Liam McIlvanney, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
The unforgiving minute, Stephanie de Montalk and Melissa Moon
Running Writing Robinson David Carnegie, Paul Millar, David Norton and Harry Ricketts (eds) Victoria University Press, S40.00, ISBN 9780864736390 This book celebrates the distinguished athletic and academic careers of Roger Robinson – the English, Cambridge-educated essayist, editor and literary…
Tagged with: David Carnegie, David Norton, Harry Ricketts, Issue 95, Melissa Moon, Paul Millar, Roger Robinson, Spring 2011, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Being a bard, Dougal McNeill
Selected Poems of James K Baxter Paul Millar (ed) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869404611 Maurice Shadbolt called Baxter “a Bard, our only one”. It’s unusual now to read the term used without irony or self-consciously distancing care; but, with…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dougal McNeill, Issue 91, James K Baxter, Paul Millar, Spring 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The man who wished to be other, C K Stead
No Fretful Sleeper – A Life of Bill Pearson Paul Millar Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 97818690404192 It must have been 40 years ago that Bill Pearson told me an anecdote about his first days at school. When he reached…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Pearson, C K Stead, Issue 90, Paul Millar, Winter 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — J C Sturm
J C Sturm (1927-2009) In 1927 a daughter was born at Opunake in Taranaki to a young Maori couple named Mary and Jack Papuni. They named their baby Te Kare, but the little girl would never know her mother, who…
After the gold rush, Elaine Clark
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination ed Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734913 Southeast Asia and New Zealand: A History of Regional and Bilateral Relations ed Anthony L Smith New Zealand…
Young Jim, W H Oliver
Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K Baxter’s correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 ed Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 086473400X I began this book thinking that a shorter one might have been enough for a smallish collection of…
Tagged with: Issue 54, James K Baxter, Noel Ginn, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
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