Never encourage the Ego/Never disparage the Ego
By Sarah Quigley in Poetry
Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013
Two opposed yet masterfully balanced poems set the tone for CK Stead’s multi-faceted new collection.
Two flat whites in Berlin
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Issue 3754 21st Apr 2012
The origins of the flat white may still be murky, but that hasn’t stopped Kiwis taking it to the world.
Vasily Petrenko
By Sarah Quigley in Classical
Issue 3717 2nd Aug 2011
Brilliant young Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko is renowned for his passion for Shostakovich’s symphonies.
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
By Sarah Quigley in Poetry
Issue 3715 20th Jul 2011
There’s a lovely poem by the Polish writer Wisława Szymborska called Some People Like Poetry. Its title swings straight into a wry qualification:
Nectar down the arm
By Sarah Quigley in Books
Issue 3693 19th Feb 2011
Cilla McQueen combines the bravura and passion of a born poet with the wisdom and tenderness of an experienced one.
Awash with the luminous
By Sarah Quigley in Poetry
Issue 3638 30th Jan 2010
Waterlogged but thirst-quenching, Bernadette Hall's poetry is perfectly pitched.
Time flies, and you are in it
By Sarah Quigley in Books
Issue 3611 25th Jul 2009
A decade of Vincent O'Sullivan's total poetic assurance.
War in the heart
By Sarah Quigley in Books
Issue 3500 9th Jun 2007
An acclaimed new novel revisits a bloody chapter in Nigerian history.