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Poetry Shelf interviews James Brown
The plain words—the best ones— you couldn’t give them away. from ‘No Trick Pony’ What a delight to see Selected Poems from James Brown arrive in 2020 (Victoria University Press). Like a number of...
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Poetry Shelf Theme Season: Eleven poems about breakfast
Breakfast is a lifelong ritual for me: the fruit, the cereal, the toast, the slowly-brewed tea, the short black. It is the reading, it is the silence, it is the companionship. It is finding the best...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: A poem sampler from Ian Wedde’s The Little...
The Little Ache — a German Notebook, Ian Wedde, Victoria University Press, 2021 From The Little Ache—a German notebook 2 Im Hochsummer besuchen die Bienen viele unterschiedliche Blüten ‘In high summer...
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Poetry Shelf review: Tayi Tibble’s Rangikura
Rangikura, Tayi Tibble, Victoria University Press, 2021 Cover: Xoë Hall ‘I love words so much they blind me.’ from ‘Mahuika’ Tayi Tibble caught my poetry heart with her debut collection –...
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Poetry Shelf review: Sam Duckor-Jones’s Party Legend
Party Legend, Sam Duckor-Jones, Victoria University Press, 2021 Dedications To Anita: complete with scissors and buttonsFor Donovan: a lessonTo Christopher: humming a little tuneFor Neil: we triedTo...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Dinah Hawken reads from Sea-light
Sea-light, Dinah Hawken, Victoria University Press, 2021 Cover: Breaker Bay, Looking South, Gerda Leenards, 2007 Dinah Hawken reads ‘Haze’, ‘The sea’ and ‘Faith’ from Sea-light Dinah Hawken is one of...
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Poetry Shelf audio: Tim Grgec reads from All Tito’s Children
All Tito’s Children, Tim Grgec, Victoria University Press, 2021 An intro: Tim reads ‘Infectious Divides’: Tim reads ‘Lost Tendencies’: Tim Grgec was the 2018 recipient of the Biggs Family Prize for...
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Poetry Shelf review: Tim Grgec’s All Tito’s Children
All Tito’s Children, Tim Grgec, Victoria University Press, 2021 i. History has never been an exact science. It is simply an emphasis of fact: figures moving in and out of view with a...
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Poetry Shelf says Wow: Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer
She’s a Killer, Kirsten McDougall, Victoria University Press, 2021 My late Sunday afternoon plug: Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer is an astonishing book. Daring, wise, jagged, smooth. I finished it...
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Poetry Shelf review: A Game of Two Halves: The Best of Sport 2005 – 2019
A Game of Two halves: The Best of Sport 2005 – 2019, ed Fergus Barrowman Victoria University Press, 2021 This book looks back through the fifteen issues of Sport from 2005 to 2019. In 600 pages it...
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