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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…
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…
Tart and Juicy: Food Stories from Australian and New Zealand Writers Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, $24.95 When some people write about food, they do it so mouth‑wateringly that you have to raid the pantry immediately. With one or two exceptions,…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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…