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You cannot forget it, Tom Beard
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982 Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 3003 My Sunshine Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $19.95 ISBN 086473 2953 Touching on song The iconography of song has always been important in Manhire’s poetry and it…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 23, Spring 1996, Tom Beard, Victoria University Press
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Skin and bones, Tom Beard
Skinning a Fish Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 The cover illustration ‑ a cold blue etching of a grotesque deep‑sea fish screwed to a ragged knife ‑ is a spare and disturbing image that hints at a hard edge to…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 16, Kevin Ireland, Summer 1994, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
More than the myth he became, Tom Beard
I was four when Baxter died and living on the other side of the world. It seems that everyone here has a Baxter anecdote ‑ something along the lines of “I remember finding Jim passed out next to my letterbox”…
Here and now, Tom Beard
Scenes from a Small City Lauris Edmond, Daphne Brassell Associates, $24.95 Lauris Edmond’s poems have always conveyed a strong sense of time and place, so it is no surprise that in a volume based around life in Wellington the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Daphne Brassell Associates, Issue 12, Lauris Edmond, Tom Beard
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