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Seeing how they run, Geoff Watson
When Running Made History Roger Robinson Canterbury University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780815611004 New Zealanders have a longstanding connection with running. Long-distance running was one of the early activities of Māori and, from at least as early as the 1880s, New…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Geoff Watson, Issue 127, Roger Robinson, Spring 2019
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Rewards, challenges, surprise, Roger Robinson
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776560677 Alistair Te Ariki Campbell always surprised us. He surprised the severely nationalistic poetry establishment of the post-WWII era with laments and elegies and mythic landscapes of…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 118, Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Sports writing as literature, Roger Robinson
Obituary Roger Robinson, writer for the Runner’s World/Running Times website, puts the work of Norman Harris (1940-2015) into proper context. We all know, and most of us enjoy, the drama of sport, the physical one that we watch on the…
Gee-whizz, Roger Robinson
Maurice Gee: A Literary Companion: Fiction for Young Readers Elizabeth Hale (ed) Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578847 Maurice Gee published Under the Mountain in 1979. It was a success in print and on TV, but for some years it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 109, Maurice Gee, Otago University Press, Roger Robinson
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Thomas Hardy’s heart, Roger Robinson
Max Gate Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738998 Thomas Hardy often wrote about death’s little ironies. There’s a poem in the voice of a dead and forgotten woman whose dog, who has also forgotten her, is burying his…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 104, Roger Robinson, Summer 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The unforgiving minute, Stephanie de Montalk and Melissa Moon
Running Writing Robinson David Carnegie, Paul Millar, David Norton and Harry Ricketts (eds) Victoria University Press, S40.00, ISBN 9780864736390 This book celebrates the distinguished athletic and academic careers of Roger Robinson – the English, Cambridge-educated essayist, editor and literary…
Tagged with: David Carnegie, David Norton, Harry Ricketts, Issue 95, Melissa Moon, Paul Millar, Roger Robinson, Spring 2011, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Harvey McQueen
Harvey McQueen 1934-2010 Harvey McQueen, who died in Wellington on December 25, was a poet, anthologist, reviewer, memoirist, educational journalist and author, past president of PEN (now New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc)), and literary gardener – a…
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