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Late style, Michael Hulse
The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 103, Michael Hulse, Peter Bland, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
We call it winter We call it winter, this Northland chill with its one-bar heater, its woollen cap, its hint of frost on the roof. But you have to laugh when you think of Eskimos crowding round a whale-oil…
Truth eating, Harry Ricketts
Inside Outside Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736536 Coming Ashore Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 9781877577499 Fly Boy Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 97818544125 “I seek to honour/the truculent/genesis of living,” states…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Harry Ricketts, Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Peter Bland, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
Naked Ladies Pink petal sexily exposed (no leaves to shelter them From the sun) they burst Through graves in abandoned churches Or hug the fence lines of deserted homesteads. You sometimes find them ‒ edgily erotic ‒ In the dark…
Poem – Peter Bland
The Gift You love the new land truly you love it you pile up year upon year until belonging happens and before you know it the old land drifts into myth which you visit disguised as a child the…
In or out, Hugh Roberts
Dream Boat: Selected Poems Tony Beyer HeadworX, $34.99, ISBN 9780473126520 Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404024 Mr Maui’s Monologues Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448270 In Continents Richard Reeve Auckland University Press,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, HeadworX, Hugh Roberts, Issue 84, Paula Green, Peter Bland, Richard Reeve, Steele Roberts, Summer 2008, Tony Beyer
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
The 1929 Essex Six Our first car, bought for a fiver, from a farmer who’d dumped it decades before under thick gorse in a corner paddock where mushrooms sprouted on the back seat. After days of tinkering we got…
Telling it like it was (perhaps), David Hill
A Life’s Sentences Gordon McLauchlan Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019163 Sorry, I’m a Stranger Here Myself Peter Bland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869416325 Both these books call themselves/are called memoirs. I’ve never liked the word; I find a back-of-hand-to-brow affectation in it.…
Tagged with: David Hill, Gordon McLauchlan, Issue 67, Penguin, Peter Bland, Spring 2004, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A wink to the grown-ups, Gavin Bishop
The Night Kite Peter Bland, illustrations by Carl Bland, Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783833 Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Graeme Gash, Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783752 Cat’s Whiskers – 4 Favourite Lynley Dodd Stories Lynley Dodd…
Tagged with: Carl Bland, Gavin Bishop, Graeme Gash, Issue 64, Lloyd Jones, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Peter Bland, Summer 2003
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
Storm Beach – Coromandel All things swim and glitter. Ghostlike we glide Through nature and should not know our place again. Ralph Waldo Emerson A tsunami off the Kermadecs curdles the bay’s translucent blue. Mussel Reef’s out of reach…