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A critical lamp in a dark world, Helen Watson White
Charles Brasch: Journals 1958-1973 Charles Brasch, selected by Peter Simpson Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781988531144 “How many existences one leads at once,” wrote Dunedin poet, critic, patron and Landfall editor Charles Brasch in 1958: I am here with LF…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Charles Brasch, Helen Watson White, Issue 125, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Grudging nationalist, Mark Williams
Charles Brasch: Journals 1945-1957 Peter Simpson (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781927322284 I approached this book rather in the spirit of someone visiting a civic monument to a figure august and admired, but obscurely known. In the late 1980s,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Charles Brasch, Issue 121, Mark Williams, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Christchurch circles and cliques, Helen Watson White
Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408480 When Christchurch poet and printer Denis Glover travelled to Britain in 1941 to serve in the Royal Navy, he left behind one literary circle and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Helen Watson White, Issue 116, Peter Simpson, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Not to be sneezed at, Melissa Laing
Fantastica: The World of Leo Bensemann Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 978869404710 It has been a prolific few years for New Zealand art history at Auckland University Press, with monographs on Bill Culbert, Marti Friedlander, Len Lye…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 94, Leo Bensemann, Melissa Laing, Peter Simpson, Winter 2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
What, where, here, not here, Peter Ireland
Peter Peryer Photographer Peter Peryer (photographs); Peter Simpson and Peter Peryer (essays) Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869494178 Room Room Ann Shelton (photographs); Martin Patrick (essay) City Gallery in association with McNamara Gallery, $7.00, ISBN 0958270465 Acerbic old Degas once…
Tagged with: Ann Shelton, Auckland University Press, City Gallery, Issue 87, Martin Patrick, McNamara Gallery, Peter Ireland, Peter Peryer, Peter Simpson, Spring 2009
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
One-book wonder, Harry Ricketts
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Tagged with: Charles Spear, Harry Ricketts, Holloway Press, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Cubist McCahon, Roger Blackley
Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years, 1953-1959 Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 9781869403898 A half-century ago, the literature of New Zealand art fitted on a single shelf, or – with a full collection of the periodical Art in New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Roger Blackley
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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Obsolescence is just the beginning, Peter Simpson
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