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Bright satins, razor-encrusted leathers, Nick Bollinger
Glam Rock Boyfriends, An Imaginary Memoir Raewyn Alexander Brightspark Books ISBN 9780473266646 For many years, the rock musician in New Zealand was viewed as an outsider: a long-haired, strangely-clothed, promiscuous, drug-taking menace. But somewhere along the line, the conventional citizen…
Tagged with: Brightspark Books, Issue 107, Nick Bollinger, Raewyn Alexander, Spring 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Words for music perhaps, Emma Neale
Museum of Lost Days Raewyn Alexander Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 9781869421045 My Iron Spine Helen Rickerby HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 9780473135966 Beauty of the Badlands Cliff Fell Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735836 Get Some Sonja Yelich Auckland…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cliff Fell, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Emma Neale, HeadworX, Helen Rickerby, Issue 86, Raewyn Alexander, Sonja Yelich, Victoria University Press, Winter 2009
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Rise of the Super-models, Bernadette Hall
AUP New Poets Raewyn Alexander, Anna Jackson, Sarah Quigley Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 197 2 Sleeve-notes Emma Neale Godwit, $19.95, ISBN 1 86962 048 8 bell tongue Paola Bilbrough Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 363…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 42, Paola Bilbrough, Raewyn Alexander, Sarah Quigley, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Monkey business, Vivienne Jepsen
Lulu: a romance Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press $24.95, ISBN 0 86473332 1 Concrete Raewyn Alexander Penguin $24.95 ISBN 0 14027377 8 I loved In Translation, Annamarie Jagose’s first novel. It wasn‘t until about a dozen pages from the end…
Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Issue 35, Penguin Books, Raewyn Alexander, Victoria University Press, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Imperfect sex, seamless Fat Janet Hughes
Leaving Carol Sinclair Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 89 9 Fat Raewyn Alexander Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26037 4 Sailing Through the Amber Susan Hancock Black Pepper, $19.95, ISBN 1 876044 02 0 A first novel reflects not…
Tagged with: Black Pepper, Carol Sinclair, Hazard Press, Issue 26, Janet Hughes, Penguin, Raewyn Alexander, Susan Hancock, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review