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Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Saturday, August 03, 2013

The True Story of the Novel

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Margaret Anne Doody: The True Story of the Novel (1996)] The other day I was looking around a second-hand bookshop in Takapuna when I...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Miss Herbert:

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or, Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction [Adam Thirlwell, Miss Herbert (2007)] I bought a book the other day called Miss Herbert , by Adam T...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Why John Masefield?

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[ Masefield as a youngster ] It's always been a bit difficult to explain (let alone justify) my choice of topics for a Masters thesis. ...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Kindness of Reviewers

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The latest brief ( #36 - The NZ Music Issue (2008): 111-13) includes what seems to me a fantastically generous review of my poetry chapboo...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

bad appendix

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[cover image: LynneMaree Patterson, "Twice as Good" (detail)] Well, a good time seems to have been had by all at the big Titus boo...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

20 Favourite 20th-Century Novels

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[ Craig Thompson, Blankets (2003) ] I guess this is a recipe for disaster, really. Once you get going it's very difficult to confine yo...
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Dr Jack Ross
I've published several poetry collections - including Chantal's Book (2002), Celanie (2012), A Clearer View of the Hinterland (2014) and The Oceanic Feeling (2021) - as well as a number of works of fiction: among them The Annotated Tree Worship (highly commended in the 2018 NZSA Heritage Book Awards), Ghost Stories (2019), and Haunts (2024). I've also edited numerous books, anthologies and literary journals, incIuding Landfall and Poetry New Zealand. In 2022 I retired from my job teaching at Massey University to pursue my other interests full-time.
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