Pomare Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, 1994, $19.95 What is it about Elizabeth Knox’s writing that divides readers into devotees or detractors, into those who do and those who don’t enjoy her work? Her first novel, After Z‑Hour (1987), which…
Three sea stories Jean Watson Daphne Brasell Associates, 1994, $29.95 Also by Jean Watson: Stand in the rain, Pegasus Press, 1965, reprinted A&U/ Port Nicholson Press, 1986; The balloon watchers, Dunmore 1975; The world is an orange and the sun,…
Crik’ey: New and Selected Poems 1978‑1994 Cilla McQueen John McIndoe, $19.95 It is just 12 years since Cilla McQueen burst into the literary world with her collection Homing In. In that time she has published five volumes of poetry, of…
Stopped and Expounding, poems and pictures Alex Stone ALwayZZ Books (distributed by Brick Row), $19.95 crappings Bill Direen 5 to 12 (P O Box 9925, Wellington) The Subject Graham Lindsay Auckland University Press, $19.95 First books are always interesting. I…
Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, 1994, $24.95 Starveling Year and Other Poems Mary Stanley Auckland University Press, 1994, $18.95 Larger populations might absorb a number of particularly strong literary opinions and cater for a variety…
New Zealand Haiku Anthology New Zealand Poetry Society, price N/A Black Before the Sun New Zealand Poetry Society, $15.00 Poetry New Zealand VIII Brick Row, $16.95 Kapiti Poems 7 Rawhiti Press, Whitireia Publishing, Daphne Brasell Associates, $24.95 In Kapiti Poems…