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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…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Wedde, Issue 10, Peter Crisp, Spring 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

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 in…

Tagged with: Andrew Mason, Autumn 1993, Godwit, Issue 8, Peter Crisp
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review, Short stories