The skull beneath the skin
By Hugh Roberts in Poetry
Issue 3809 2nd May 2013
Fleur Adcock has an extraordinary ability to open abysses of complex emotions under apparently everyday scenes.
Poems to a Glass Woman by James K Baxter, edited with an essay by John Weir - review
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Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013
Weir does sterling scholarly work in unearthing the few facts we know about this brief adolescent fixation and shows Baxter returned to it repeatedly in later life, and later writings, as a devastating epoch in his life, says Hugh Roberts.
Anthology of New Zealand Literature, edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams - review
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013
The controversy over who’s absent from the Anthology of New Zealand Literature is not a fruitful one.
Briefcase by John Adams review
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3742 28th Jan 2012
A district court and family court judge has produced an intriguing and accomplished first poetry collection.
Is it a poem or a blog?
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3664 31st Jul 2010
Lynn Jenner pushes beyond the limitations of simply sharing Stuff That Has Happened To Me Lately.
Now, voyager
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3620 26th Sep 2009
Stephanie de Montalk's poems of arrival and departure are a constant pleasure.
Voice of America
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3590 28th Feb 2009
New Zealand poets set forth for the badlands and the world of a young US soldier in Iraq.
Cradle to grave
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3586 31st Jan 2009
Anthologies of poems about parenthood and death
On the Road on the harbour
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3574 8th Nov 2008
The beat poetry of Bob Orr, y'dig?
Homer in Te Aro
By Hugh Roberts in Books
Issue 3570 11th Oct 2008
The anti-heroic anti-poetry of David Beach.