A Fence around the Cuckoo Ruth Park, Viking, $49.95 Ruth Park’s success has come as a surprise to many New Zealanders, and raises questions about how we regard our expatriate writers, or rather how we define them. She counts as…
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A wealth of incident and language, Harry Orsman
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Harry Orsman, Issue 8, Ruth Park, Viking
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Ancient meetings of the past, Bernard Kernot
In praise of difficult women, Annabel Cooper
Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography Lynley Hood John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $29.95 Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner Lynley Hood Viking, Auckland 1988, $39.95, Paper $24.95 Who is Sylvia? is a day-by-day account of Lynley Hood’s work, her…
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Tagged with: Annabel Cooper, Issue 2, John McIndoe, Lynley Hood, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
To make the world intelligible, Max Anderson
Selected Poems 1940-1989 Allen Curnow Viking hardback, $49.95 (Penguin paperback, Auckland, 1990, $27.95) When Allen Curnow published Continuum, his collected poems 1972-1988, he organized the book back-to-front: most recent poems at the beginning, earliest at the end. The selection, a career summary…
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Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Issue 2, Max Anderson, Penguin, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review