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Iain Sharp: Beyond the pale
State Ward Alan Duff Random House, $17.95 I realise that almost everyone is bone-weary by now of the wrangling over the Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories and its shameful “Note on Absences”. All the same, I cannot resist…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Iain Sharp, Issue 13, Random House, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Janet Wilson: Distinctive depictions of childhood
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…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 13, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Anne French: A range of slim poses
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…
Tagged with: 5 to 12, Alex Stone, ALwayZZ Books, Anne French, Auckland University Press, Bill Direen, Graham Lindsay, Issue 13, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Paul Millar: The kowhai ungilded
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Eileen Duggan, Issue 13, Mary Stanley, Paul Millar, Peter Whiteford, Victoria University Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Charles Croot: Tinkering in the toolshed
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…
Tagged with: Brick Row, Charles Croot, Daphne Brasell Associates, Issue 13, New Zealand Poetry Society, Rawhiti Press, Whitireia Publishing, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bill Sewell: Subtracting the magic
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…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Cilla McQueen, Issue 13, John McIndoe, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters – Issue 13
Dear Editor Professor Clark’s review of our book in Vol 3, No 3 [#11, December 1993] has recently been drawn to my attention. I have always had the understanding that the task of a reviewer is to summarise the content…
Editorial – Issue 13
Editorial: June 1994 George Bush could never get the hang of the “vision thing”. No matter, he beat Michael Dukakis who had vision but a myopic one. Then Bush got beaten by Bill Clinton because Americans thought they were in…
Issue 13 | June 1994
Volume 4 | Number 1 | Issue 13 | June 1994 Editorial — June 1994 Letters — June 1994 Bill Sewell: Cilla McQueen, Crik’ey: New and Selected Poems 1978-1994 Charles Croot: New Zealand Poetry Society, New Zealand Haiku Anthology; and…