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Careful sympathy, Roger Robinson
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller Kathleen Jones Viking, $65.00, ISBN 9780670074358 Let’s hear Katherine Mansfield speak first: The cleanliness of Switzerland! Darling, it is frightening. The chastity of my lily-white bed! The waxy-fine floors! The huge bouquet of white lilac,…
Tagged with: Issue 92, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Jones, Roger Robinson, Summer 2010, Viking
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Going the distance, Roger Robinson
Conquerors of Time Lynn McConnell SportsBooks, UK£10.00, ISBN 9781899807888 January 5 was the centenary of the birth of Jack Lovelock. A cake was cut at Timaru Boys’ High School, and a plaque was unveiled at his unlikely birthplace, the literally-named…
Tagged with: Issue 90, Lynn McConnell, Roger Robinson, SportsBooks, Winter 2010
Posted in Review, Sport
Posted in Review, Sport
Crimes, creeks, concealment, Roger Robinson
Access Road Maurice Gee Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202448 Parliaments and law courts used to “access”, though only “recess” survives in current usage. Incoming tides and the rising sun also accessed. These days we fashionably access our emails or information…
Tagged with: Issue 88, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books, Roger Robinson, Summer 2009
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary — Meg Campbell
Meg (Aline Margaret) Campbell (1937-2007) Meg Campbell died at home in Pukerua Bay on November 17 2007, 24 hours before the launch of her sixth collection, Poems Adrift (Te Kotare Press). Meg Campbell’s poems have typically reflected on her often…
The Gee-spot, Roger Robinson
Blindsight Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143020234 Alice Ferry, narrator and co-protagonist of Maurice Gee’s new novel, is a mycologist – an expert on fungi. That is, her professional life is devoted to studying spongy, fragile, morbid life-forms that lurk…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary, I A Gordon
I A Gordon (1908-2004) I A Gordon liked to be called “Prof”. It sounds quaint now, but, for him, the job was the man. The diverse roles of senior academic, scholar, literary leader and public intellectual defined him. With the…
A spirit intense and rare, Doug Munro
Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings ed Roger Robinson Streamline, $34.95, ISBN 0958210624 Everyone knows about Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), described by a contemporary as “a spirit intense and rare” and immortalised by Samoans as Tusitala (the teller of…
Tagged with: Doug Munro, Issue 64, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson, Streamline, Summer 2003
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review
Lord of the wings, Roger Robinson
Sky Dancer Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018698 If Witi Ihimaera is a national treasure, he is an impishly unpredictable one. At an age when he could be securely serene, he persists with youthful glee in taking literary risks. With…
Tagged with: Issue 62, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Winter 2003, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Horace at Kapiti, Roger Robinson
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