Honey and bitters, Fiona Kidman
Novelist and poet Fiona Kidman recalls her first published book. When first asked to contribute this essay, my response was to beg another later book. My first novel, perhaps? On reflection, I saw this...
View ArticleIsa Moynihan (1925-2013)
Isa Moynihan (1925-2013) Writer and reviewer Isa Moynihan of Christchurch died in June at the age of 88. Her work was published in New Zealand and overseas anthologies, but deserved greater recognition...
View ArticleHugh Price (1929-2009)
Nearly three years ago, I went to the funeral of Hugh Llewellyn Price who died after many months of living with cancer. And “living with” is the operative phrase here, as even during his last years, he...
View ArticleEndgame, Peter Simpson
Peter Simpson, co-founder and director, remembers The Holloway Press. The retrospective exhibition, Dark Arts: Twenty Years of the Holloway Press, so ably curated by Francis McWhannell, is endgame for...
View ArticleThe ordeal of civility
Paul Morris reflects on reviewing overseas and at home. Spending time elsewhere inevitably leads to comparisons. I want to reflect on reviewing and the differences between the United Kingdom and New...
View ArticleShowing you wonders, Lydia Wevers
Lydia Wevers re-reads Phillip Mann’s early novels I have managed to find my 1982 copy of Phillip Mann’s The Eye of the Queen, hardback and in its distinctive bright yellow Gollancz cover. Mann’s early...
View ArticleSustaining the literary sector, Maggie Barry
The Honourable Maggie Barry, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, addresses the state of the literary nation and looks to its future. New Zealanders have always been voracious readers. From the...
View ArticleA sector disrupted, Jacinda Adern
Byline Jacinda Adern, the Labour Spokesperson for Arts, Culture and Heritage, assesses the literary sector from the left of the political spectrum. I can still remember the mottled edges of my...
View ArticleAlways an outlaw, John Horrocks
John Horrocks revisits John A Lee’s novel Civilian into Soldier. “Whoosh – the good old Christian bayonet”: this is the scribbled annotation to a 1937 press clipping in one of John A Lee’s scrapbooks....
View ArticlePenning in a digital world, Elizabeth Aitken-Rose
Byline Frank Sargeson Trust Chair Elizabeth Aitken-Rose explores what it means to be an author in the digital age. We are all living and operating in the middle of a technological revolution – a global...
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