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When Tu commands, Les Cleveland
Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159115 This sequence of 72 short narrative poems with nine photographs is a loose, anecdotal treatment of the Maori Battalion’s part in World War 2. It also…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 54, Les Cleveland, Wai-te-ata Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Down memory lane, Bernadette Hall
Axis: Poems & Drawings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877276065 The Sky’s Enormous Jug Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $24.00, ISBN 0908943199 Stairdancing Janet Hughes Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159077 It was a rather odd experience writing this particular…
Tagged with: Bernadette Hall, Cilla McQueen, Issue 52, Jan Kemp, Janet Hughes, Otago University Press, Puriri Press, Summer 2002, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Underestimated, Harry Ricketts
The Perfect Symbol: Poems Unpublished & Uncollected Louis Johnson (with illustrations by Edgar Mansfield) Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877159 06 9 It’s eleven years now since the death of Louis Johnson, a large, likeable man with a relish for…
Tagged with: Harry Ricketts, Issue 40, Louis Johnson, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A sense of completeness, John O’Connor
Gallipoli & Other Poems Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877159 08 5 In 1971 I wandered into a Christchurch bookshop and asked for the poems of Ezra “Pond”. I was doing UE at night tech; someone…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, John O’Connor, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review