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On editing – Sarah Jane Barnett interviews Ashleigh Young
A new post at The Red Room: I like to read and review New Zealand poetry, and because I live in Wellington quite a few of these collections come from Victoria University Press. When Ashleigh...
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Poetry Shelf Review: Kerrin P Sharpe’s Rabbit Rabbit – There is a honeyed...
I fall with the rhythm of rowing into long narrow light bridges sigh like single oars from ‘last supper in Venice’ Rabbit Rabbit Kerrin P Sharpe , Victoria University Press, 2016 Victoria...
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Deleted Scenes for Lovers Tracey Slaughter Victoria University Press, $30 Tracey Slaughter’s daring short fiction deposits you on a rollercoaster, hoists you in the air, puts you in a dank, dark...
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Is Hera Lindsay Bird a flash in the pan?
‘All I care about is looking at things and naming them’ ‘I love life’ Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird, Victoria University Press, 2016 For the past week or so, after visits to our key research...
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These Rough Notes: Ashleigh Young
Can You Tolerate This? Personal Essays by Ashleigh Young. Release date: 11 August. Paperback, $30. With her new collection of essays to be launched by VUP on August 11th, Ashleigh Young answered...
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These Rough Notes – Damien Wilkins Interview
I heard I rumour you wrote this book in a matter of weeks? How did you do that? What influence did this rapid writing have on the shape of the book? If I knew how I did it, I’d do it all the time....
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A must-go book launch: Sarah Laing’s Mansfield and Me
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of Sarah Laing’s new graphic memoir Mansfield and Me on Thursday 6 October, 6pm–7.30pm at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington All...
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Nick Ascroft and VUP launching Back with the Human Condition – dips so far,...
Victoria University Press warmly invite you to the launch of Back with the Human Condition by Nick Ascroft on Monday 10 October, 6pm–7.30pm at The Guest Room, Southern Cross Bar 39 Abel Smith St, Te...
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Book Launch: My Father’s Island: A Memoir by Adam Dudding
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of My Father’s Island: A Memoir by Adam Dudding on Thursday 10 November, 6pm–7.30pm at Time Out Bookstore 432 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden Village,...
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‘Daffodils Lip Sync’: A new poem in a new book by Nick Ascroft
Daffodils Lip Sync I wandered longwise as a crab that floats a ‘hi’ and flaps a claw when on the wall I spied a tap and hosed a golden Labrador. * * I wandered Langley with a cold, like drones...
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Poetry Shelf interviews Jenny Bornholdt: ‘There’s always a feeling, a kind of...
Photo credit: Deborah Smith ‘The moon came up and all our thinking went sideways.’ from ‘Full Moon’ Jenny Bornholdt is one of my favourite New Zealand poets, so a new Selected Poems is an...
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Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This? – Perhaps it’s all to do with a mind...
Can You Tolerate This? Personal Essays, Ashleigh Young, Victoria University Press, 2016 The other day I was on a plane about to fly to New Plymouth to go to the Ronald Hugh Morrieson...
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Sarah Laing’s Mansfield and Me is a breath of fresh air – Glorious
Sarah Laing’s Mansfield and Me is a breath of fresh air. I wanted to write about it for my book but also for the blog, in a different way, so decided, somewhat self-consciously to draw myself into my...
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Poetry Shelf’s Annual-Books-We-Loved-in -2016 Lists
‘So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange or stupid things...
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Poetry Shelf The Summer Season: Poets pick poems – Bill Manhire picks Louise...
Four Seasons on Poetry Shelf aims to widen the scope of voices, selections, opinions, poetry tastes, sidetracks, reading options in 2017 on the blog. Each season will be different. First up, The...
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Poetry Shelf The Summer Season: Selina Tusitala Marsh picks Tusiata Avia
This is a photo of my house It has pink bricks and a big tree. This is the driveway, you can lie on it in the summer, it keeps you warm if you are wet. This is the screen door, swallow. Front...
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Poetry Shelf The Summer Season: Poets pick poems – Tim Upperton picks Bill...
Kevin I don’t know where the dead go, Kevin. The one far place I know is inside the heavy radio. If I listen late at night, there’s that dark, celestial glow, heaviness of the cave, the hive....
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Book launch for Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner
VUP warmly invites you to the launch of Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner on Thursday 16 March, 6pm–7.30pm at The Guest Room, Southern Cross, 39 Abel Smith St, Wellington....
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Poetry Shelf interviews Hannah Mettner: ‘I want to be emotionally moved by a...
We believe in the steps. We tell our children and then our grandchildren about the cool pond at the top where sun- carp clean our feet and where we can sleep. The steps are one of the beautiful...
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