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An account of trauma, Michael Hulse
Allen Curnow: Collected Poems Elizabeth Caffin and Terry Sturm (eds) Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869408510 Allen Curnow’s poetry is a transcript of trauma. “Morning by morning incorruption / Puts on corruption”: this most fundamental of thoughts, borne in upon…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Elizabeth Caffin, Issue 121, Michael Hulse, Terry Sturm
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Consecrating Curnow, Simon During
Allen Curnow: Simply by Sailing in a New Direction Terry Sturm (Linda Cassells (ed)) Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408527, Allen Curnow’s first book, Valley of Decision, appeared as a “Phoenix Miscellany” under the Auckland University College Students’ Association Press…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Linda Cassells, Simon During, Terry Sturm
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Wit and moral clarity, Hugh Roberts
Whim Wham’s New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 Terry Sturm (ed) Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 1869417577 It is by now no secret that Allen Curnow, a man with few rivals for the title of “New Zealand’s Greatest Poet”,…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Hugh Roberts, Issue 76, Summer 2006, Terry Sturm, Vintage, Whim Wham
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A demon for work, Lydia Wevers
An Unsettled Spirit: The Life & Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G B Lancaster) Terry Sturm Auckland University Press, $44.95, ISBN 1869402944 I first came across G B Lancaster in the reading room of the Mitchell Library in Sydney.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Edith Lyttleton, G B Lancaster, Issue 62, Lydia Wevers, Terry Sturm, Winter 2003
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
“Life in one’s mouth”, Peter Bland
Louis Johnson: Selected Poems ed Terry Sturm Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473350X There’s a short poem by Louis Johnson which I’ve always admired. It’s called “Intemperance” and it tells us a lot in a very short space, both about…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Peter Bland, Terry Sturm, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Second time around, Elizabeth Webby
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (2nd edition) Terry Sturm (ed) Oxford University Press, $89.95 ISBN 0 19558385 X That a second edition of this substantial reference-work has been required less than a decade after it was…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Webby, Issue 34, Oxford University Press, Terry Sturm
Posted in History, Literature
Posted in History, Literature
Decoys of simplicity, Terry Sturm
Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $27.95 ISBN 0 86473 323 2 One of the earliest poems in this selection, “In the Garden”, Jenny Bornholdt’s subject is that bane of all gardeners, the common onion weed.…
Tagged with: Issue 33, Jenny Bornholdt, Terry Sturm, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
History as editorial cunning, Vincent O’Sullivan
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature Terry Sturm (ed), Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $69.95 To take up a 750-page book about hundreds of other books one has read only a fraction of, and to persist to the end…
Tagged with: Issue 2, Oxford University Press, Terry Sturm, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1991
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
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