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Language listening to itself, Peter Crisp

Posted on September 1, 1993 by NZ Books
The Drummer Ian Wedde, Auckland University Press, $18.95 The poem is a place where language listens to itself. Often it can be an occasion for acute soundings, where nods and glances tug at every cadence. Poetry today can be edgy…
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Crazy richness shaped with formality, Peter Crisp

Posted on March 1, 1993 by NZ Books
Vital Writing 3. New Zealand Stories and Poems, 1991‑92 Andrew Mason (ed), Godwit, $29.95 Anti-criticism, for a meta-critical occasion. It is 1993. The cards are nearly all on the table … A deep breath … Changing motifs in speech, changes…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review, Short stories
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