Riviera redux
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Issue 3808 24th Apr 2013
The Menton writers’ fellowship falls under the sharp, sometimes even cruel, eye of Janet Frame in this posthumously published comic novel.
The leaf-ride by Dinah Hawken
By Peter Simpson in Poetry
Issue 3734 2nd Dec 2011
It must have been daunting for a poet to be commissioned, as Dinah Hawken was by Chamber Music New Zealand, to write a sequence of poems to accompany
In search of beauty
By Peter Simpson in Uncategorized
Issue 3463 23rd Sep 2006
At home he feels like a tourist: Ian Wedde's The Viewing Platform is a satire of ideas about nature, culture and New Zealand's marketing of itself.
It was too long ago
By Peter Simpson in Uncategorized
Issue 3392 14th May 2005
Do New Zealanders find something comforting and nostalgic about Owen Marshall's stories? Maybe, but the author is also pretty good at undermining those reactions.
You have 2100 new messages
By Peter Simpson in Poetry
Issue 3357 11th Sep 2004
The making of the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive
Go through the gates
By Peter Simpson in Uncategorized
Issue 3346 26th Jun 2004
A tribute to New Zealand writer John Caselberg (1927-2004).
Clean as milk poured out from old basins
By Peter Simpson in Uncategorized
Issue 3306 20th Sep 2003
YOUNG KNOWLEDGE: The poems of Robin Hyde, edited & introduced by Michele Leggott (Auckland University Press, $49.99).