Taking Off Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734239 A poet in his prime falls almost silent for ten years. When his new collection at last appears, it opens with a sad song of music overheard, that also asks,…
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Disquiet’s the theme, Roger Robinson
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Issue 54, Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Prophesy and be damned! Alan Horsman
Anno Domini 2000 or Woman’s Destiny Julius Vogel (ed Roger Robinson) Exisle Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0908988168 “There is no such thing as a load of old codswallop … the codswallop is always freshly made,” or at least it needs to…
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Tagged with: Alan Horsman, Exisle Publishing, Issue 54, Julius Vogel, Roger Robinson, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Waving the flag, Heather Murray
Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows ed Roger Robinson Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86473 367 4 It is hard not to get political when reviewing this book, so political I’ll be (it is after all…
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Tagged with: Issue 41, Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Careless of landfall, Roger Robinson
She made a good end, Roger Robinson
Late Song Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 235 9 The obsequies are over, the elegies written, and we reluctantly begin to think of Wellington without her. Seven months after a death that caused more public grief…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Lauris Edmond, Roger Robinson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Mapping the citadel, Lydia Wevers
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature in English Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds) Oxford University Press, $79.95 ISBN 0 19558348 5 The publication of this book should have been timed for the millennium. If there is going to…
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Tagged with: Issue 36, Lydia Wevers, Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, Roger Robinson
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Pure Broadway, Roger Robinson
Nights in the Gardens of Spain Witi Ihimaera, Secker & Warburg, $34.95 On the way home years ago after seeing Waituhi (the Witi Ihimaera/ Ross Harris opera), I remember remarking that Witi could someday write the book for a great…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Roger Robinson, Secker & Warburg, Winter 1995, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A sporting chance, Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson and Anna Rogers review books that document ‘a little-discussed area of women’s endeavour’. Athletes of the Century: 100 Years of New Zealand Track and Field Peter Heidenstrom, GP Publications, $49.95 The world’s first international races for women…
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Tagged with: GP Publications, Issue 10, Peter Heidenstrom, Roger Robinson, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Apology to C K Stead
C K Stead has taken exception to two aspects of a review of The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories in our issue of March 1994. If Roger Robinson’s review gave readers the impression that the absence of four…
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