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Courting controversy, Emma Martin
Fiction The Suicide Club Sarah Quigley Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771012 Midway through Sarah Quigley’s The Suicide Club, Lace, one of its three troubled young protagonists, recalls a story told to her by her father, a celebrated film-maker who, along with…
Tagged with: Emma Martin, Issue 119, Sarah Quigley, Spring 2017, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Shining a transformative light, Sarah Quigley
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560707 At a time when much of Europe is preoccupied with redefining – and defending – boundaries, New Zealand is…
Tagged with: Cherie Lacey, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Sarah Quigley, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
If music be … Elspeth Sandys
The Conductor Sarah Quigley Vintage, $39.99, ISBN 9781869795061 Any author setting out to write a novel with a man or woman of acknowledged genius at its centre is setting herself a Herculean task. When the genius is also a…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 95, Sarah Quigley, Spring 2011, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Remind me where we are now, Nicholas Reid
Secret City Vivienne Plumb Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 090856189X Shot Sarah Quigley Virago, $34.95, ISBN 1860499635 What country am I in here? Characters get ideas from watching “5.30 With Jude”, there’s a reference to “old Maori guys”, and one of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Cape Catley, Issue 61, Nicholas Reid, Sarah Quigley, Virago, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The poetics of limitation, John O’Connor
Playing God Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228753 LOVEINABOOKSTOREORYOURMONEYBACK Sarah Quigley Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402847 People with Real Lives Don’t Need Landscapes John Dolan Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869402871 Three books with apparently little in…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 60, John Dolan, John O’Connor, Sarah Quigley, Steele Roberts, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The new restlessness, Sarah Quigley
Settler Dreaming Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734247 Porcelain Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402642 The death of Alan Curnow last year seemed to call for some kind of reassessment of our national poetry, and some…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Diana Bridge, Issue 54, Sarah Quigley, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Sarah Quigley
Once upon a time You wake up one morning, just like any other morning, and everything sounds the same. The pigeons are chanting in the plane trees, you hear the smack smack of your neighbour’s fist on his punchbag, and…