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Championing the local, Margot Schwass

Posted on September 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Margot Schwass pays tribute to Ruth Dallas who died earlier this year. Silent bush, rain-soaked paddocks, solitary farmhouses hunkered down beneath black macrocarpas …. The landscapes so intensely reflected in the work of the late Ruth Dallas are very recognisably…

Tagged with: Issue 83, Margot Schwass, Ruth Dallas, Spring 2008
Posted in Comment

Obituary — Ruth Dallas

Posted on June 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Ruth Dallas (1919-2008) Dunedin writer Ruth Dallas was born in Invercargill into a working-class settler family, which informed her writing. She published 20 books, mainly poetry and books for children. Her most recent poetry collection, The Joy of a Ming…

Tagged with: Issue 81, Ruth Dallas, Winter 2008
Posted in Obituaries

Not enough clash and clang, Anna Livesey

Posted on March 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Cup Alison Wong Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 1877338761 The Joy of a Ming Vase Ruth Dallas Otago University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372307 Brief Lives Chris Price Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403630 The Word Went Round David Howard Otago University…

Tagged with: Alison Wong, Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Chris Price, David Howard, Issue 77, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

“Out of emptiness breaking”, Janet Wilson

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Collected Poems Ruth Dallas 2nd ed, Otago University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877133868 The Black Horse and other stories Ruth Dallas Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 187713385X Today, at 80, Ruth Dallas is, apart from Allen Curnow, New Zealand’s most venerable…

Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Janet Wilson, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review, Short stories

A poet’s story, Kevin Ireland

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Curved Horizon: An Autobiography Ruth Dallas, University of Otago Press, MacIndoe, 1991, $29.95 I have only ever met Ruth Dallas once, and briefly, so I have no idea of what she is like to talk to, but she always comes…

Tagged with: Issue 6, Kevin Ireland, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas, Spring 1992
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review