Sport 40 edited by Fergus Barrowman and Sally-Ann Spencer review

As New Zealand heads to the Frankfurt Book Fair, Sport 40 offers a taste of contemporary writing in German.

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23rd June, 2012

Review

Regular readers of Sport will find two-thirds of its 40th issue are familiar: known thoroughbreds from the Victoria University Press stables strut their dressage, while colts and fillies in training are permitted to frisk. The writing is technically polished, coolly efficient yet strangely bland. Sport is an elegant literary journal for the “passionless people”. The remaining third is more colourful, a “special feature” of “Contemporary Writing in German” (in translation), to coincide with New Zealand’s Guest of Honour status at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Regrettably, ...

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