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A Survey of Recent New Zealand Writing TREVOR REEVES
A Survey of Recent New Zealand Writing TREVOR REEVES O achieve any depth or spread in an article attempt• ing to cover the whole gamut of New Zealand writing * must be deemed to be a New Zealand madman's dream, but I wonder if it would be so difficult for people overseas, particularly in other parts of the Commonwealth. It would appear to them, perhaps, that two or three rather good poets have emerged from these islands. So good, in fact, that their appearance in any anthology of Common• wealth poetry would make for a matter of rather pleasurable comment and would certainly not lower the general stand• ard of the book. I'll come back to these two or three poets presently, but let us first consider the question of New Zealand's prose writers. Ah yes, we have, or had, Kath• erine Mansfield, who died exactly fifty years ago. Her work is legendary — her Collected Stories (Constable) goes from reprint to reprint, and indeed, pirate printings are being shovelled off to the priting mills now that her fifty year copyright protection has run out. But Katherine Mansfield never was a "New Zealand writer" as such. She left early in the piece. But how did later writers fare, internationally speaking? It was Janet Frame who first wrote the long awaited "New Zealand Novel." Owls Do Cry was published in 1957. A rather cruel but incisive novel, about herself (everyone has one good novel in them), it centred on her own childhood experiences in Oamaru, a small town eighty miles north of Dunedin -— a town in which rough farmers drove sheep-shit-smelling American V-8 jalopies inexpertly down the main drag — where the local "bikies" as they are now called, grouped in vociferous RECENT NEW ZEALAND WRITING 17 bunches outside the corner milk bar. -
Read Witi's Lecture
First published in 2015 by the New Zealand Book Council 156/158 Victoria Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011 © Witi Ihimaera, 2015 A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-33516-8 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the permission of the publisher. Cover design Kalee Jackson Cover photo © Siobhan Harvey, 2012 Internal design and typesetting Emma Bryson Printed by Printlink This book was taken from manuscript to bookshelf by students of the Whitireia New Zealand publishing programme, who worked on editing, production and design. For more information about our editing and publishing training, visit www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz FOREWORD Kia ora tātou The New Zealand Book Council Lecture has become a prominent part of the literary landscape in Aotearoa New Zealand and provides an opportunity for one of our country’s leading writers to discuss an aspect of literature close to their heart. The 2015 lecture was significant for three reasons: firstly, it was a key part of the wonderful Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival – one of Australasia’s stellar festival events. Secondly, the lecture took place at Dunedin’s first literary festival as a UNESCO City of Literature, which is well-deserved recognition of the city’s past and present as an extraordinary place of words and writers. Last – but certainly not least – we were privileged to have Witi Ihimaera deliver the lecture, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most acclaimed writers. -
On Monday 3 December 2007 I Drove Down to Kaka Point to Talk with Hone Tuwhare About Bill Person
ka mate ka ora: a new zealand journal of poetry and poetics Issue 8 September 2009 Hunt’s Baxter Francis McWhannell I didn’t know Then how short life is – how few The ones who really touch us (‘Words to Lay a Strong Ghost’, 1966) It is a little over 83 years since James Keir Baxter was born. Today, he is one of Aotearoa’s more familiar cultural personages (along with such figures as Janet Frame and Colin McCahon) and one of our few widely recognised poets, represented in the majority of twentieth century New Zealand verse anthologies and in many international English-language equivalents. Indeed, Baxter has in this country assumed the status of icon (with all the ambiguity that this implies). Had he not died in 1972, Baxter would no doubt have something to say about his present fame – he was an astute and prolific commentator, and an uncommonly self-conscious one. As it is, we-the-living are steadily turning out Baxter-based publications, James K. Baxter: Poems (Auckland University Press, 2009), selected and introduced by Sam Hunt, being just one recent example. I first learned of Hunt’s selection of Baxter when visiting a favourite Auckland bookshop. The handsome little publication was displayed in precisely the same spot as had been occupied some months before by another attractive hardback, Hunt’s own Doubtless: New & Selected Poems (Craig Potton, 2008). This latter I had purchased without hesitation. Despite wide popularity and saleability, Hunt’s poetry has of late been rather hard to get hold of. The demise of Hazard Press of Christchurch has effectively rendered Hunt’s Making Tracks: A Selected 50 Poems (1991) out of print, and second hand copies of his predominantly paperback collections are scarce, especially in good condition. -
The Three Worlds of James K Baxter
This is a Free Low Resolution edition see Publishing details for more information on the very first page MYTHOLOGYMYTHOLOGY ofof PLACEPLACE the three worlds of James K Baxter photographs - Lloyd Godman text - Lawrence Jones Design and layout copyright - © Photo-syn-thesis 2008 applicable text copyright © Larry Jones & Lloyd Godman Photographs copyright © Lloyd Godman Portrait of Lloyd Godman and Lawrence Jones - page 2 - © copyright Max Lowery All right reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher - please email for permission. Published by Photo-syn-thesis - 2008 www.lloydgodman.net [email protected] mob. 0448188899 Mythology of Place is published in three versions • Free version - down loadable PDF - this is a low resolution file which you can download the file and print at your own standards - while the version is free normal copyright rules apply. • High quality - while this is an open edition, each copy is numbered and dated - printed from a high resolu- tion file on glossy paper stock and bound the edition has facing pages. • Superb limited edition of 10 copies - signed, numbered and dated - printed from the highest quality files on high quality paper stock - the images are printed with Epson Ultrachrome pigments on Hahnemule 308 g/m paper and the edition is bound. A collectors item. During 1993 to 1994 Lawrence Jones and Lloyd Godman worked collaboratively on the Mythology of Place. They retraced the words of one of New Zealand’s most acknowledged poets, James K Baxter, searching for ar- tifacts that referenced real places, places where the youthful Baxter’s naked feet once trod, places that remained with him until the bare foot days before his death. -
Poetry Notes
. Poetry Notes Winter 2013 Volume 4, Issue 2 ISSN 1179-7681 Quarterly Newsletter of PANZA Elliott does not appear in any New Inside this Issue Welcome Zealand anthology that I’m aware of, but he is listed like a number of other Hello and welcome to issue 14 of New Zealand poets of this period in Welcome Poetry Notes, the newsletter of PANZA, New Zealand Literature Authors’ Week 1 the newly formed Poetry Archive of 1936: Annals of New Zealand Mark Pirie on James H New Zealand Aotearoa. Literature: being a List of New Zealand Elliott (1879-1955) Poetry Notes will be published quarterly Authors and their works with and will include information about introductory essays and verses, page 55: Classic New Zealand goings on at the Archive, articles on “Elliott, James Hawthorn [sic] Random poetry by John J Gallagher historical New Zealand poets of interest, Rhymes (v) 1924.” 4 occasional poems by invited poets and a The National Library of New Zealand’s Comment on W S Marris record of recently received donations to catalogue credits him with six books by Niel Wright 5 the Archive. from 1924-1950. The name James H Articles and poems are copyright in the Elliott does not appear in New Zealand Obituary: Sarah Broom names of the individual authors. Biographies at the National Library, but 6 The newsletter will be available for free there is a brief Obituary in the New A tribute to Helen download from the Poetry Archive’s Zealand Herald, 13 July 1955. Longford website: A Tapuhi search shows correspondence 8 from Elliott for J C Andersen’s Author’s http://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com Comment on Angus Week 1936 bibliography. -
Four New Zealand Poets on the Road
Kunapipi Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 11 1980 Gypsies, city streets: Four New Zealand poets on the road Michael Sharkey Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Sharkey, Michael, Gypsies, city streets: Four New Zealand poets on the road, Kunapipi, 2(2), 1980. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss2/11 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Gypsies, city streets: Four New Zealand poets on the road Abstract This brief review of four New Zealand 'road' poets suggests something of a phenomenon of the seventies, a hangover from an earlier 'beat' period, which infused New Zealand poetry with a new sense of mobility and openness that owed a deal to the social and political movements of the time as much as to consciously-d~rived literary models. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss2/11 MICHAEL SHARKEY Gypsies, City Streets: Four New Zealand Poets on the Road This brief review of four New Zealand 'road' poets suggests something of a phenomenon of the seventies, a hangover from an earlier 'beat' period, which infused New Zealand poetry with a new sense of mobility and openness that owed a deal to the social and political movements of the time as much as to consciously-d~rived literary models. The work of 60 Gary McQormick, Sam Hunt, Peter Olds and Jon Benson is not uniformly concerned with travelling, but all these writers deal with images of transience, travel, or a trip, to infer relationships with persons, society and art. -
(No. 1)Craccum-1978-052-001.Pdf
Auckland University Student Paper Volume 52 No 1 February 27 1978 A Peter Sellers character once claimed to be employed research programmes initiated by several local councils. manually. That is, once a year. Nothing better sums up Manukau, Devonport and Takapuna were areas surveyed the student's summertime dilemma. by students noting recreational facilities currently I am breaking no state secret when I tell you that the offered and assessing future needs. Devonport also ran a manual period (November-February) of a student's life research programme with a difference, where students has become an increasing problem over the past few gathered oral recollections from the borough's elderly years. Last October, unemployment was running at the citizens. highest rate since the Depression; more than double that And so on. Anything, but anything, came under the of the comparable period in 1976. Summer employment scheme. The jobs described above form but the barest prospects for students and school-leavers had not looked tip of the iceberg. They certainly all contain a large so bleak in recent memory. degree of 'community value'. One becomes somewhat And then, out of the blue, came Robert (This is not a skeptical of the SCSP criteria, however, when one mini-budget) Muldoon's early Christmas present to the realizes that well over 95% of all applications were nation. The so-called 'economic package'. approved in some capacity. When one sees the Portage Those sections of this programme relating to Licensing Trust create a vacancy under the scheme for employment assistance drew much favourable comment. a consumer survey on people's liquor 'requirements.' In A Herald editorial remarked approvingly: "The scheme such cases, one is tempted to believe that projects were to pay students for summer work in avenues of comm approved simply because they were there, and not unity service is a particularly interesting innovation and because of any special m e rit... -
Janet Frame Lecture 2011
JANET FRAME LECTURE 2011 Warm Greetings: In this, the 2011 Janet Frame lecture, I wish to talk about the short but astonishingly successful history of children’s literature in this country; but before I do that, I’d like to thank the New Zealand Society of Authors for their generosity. As you may know, the Janet Frame lecture, is delivered by the Honorary President of the Society. I assure you I have done nothing to earn this title apart from being one of the oldest members of the NZSA. In the 1960s, we were part of the global PEN and we are still affiliated with PEN; and I was nominated for membership by Monte Holcroft, editor of the NZ Listener, on the strength of two short stories. The account of my first PEN meeting is recorded in the memoir Navigation, but I’ll mention it again here. I was a somewhat shy young woman, a farmers wife with four small children, and Mr Holcroft had said I should attend the December PEN meeting. I went by train from Palmerston North to Wellington, found The Terrace and the venue in Wakefield House, and hesitantly walked in. The room was full of voices and tobacco smoke, with most people around a bar at the other end. Mr Holcroft was not there. I knew no one and no one knew me. I stood in the middle of the room for perhaps a minute, feeling like a goldfish that had jumped her bowl, then decided to go back to the railway station and wait for a train home. -
North Shore Literary Walks
Castor Bay Walk NORTH SHORE Lake Pupuke LITERARY Takapuna Walk WALKS North Shore City heritage trails Devonport Stanley Walk Bay Walk 0 1km 2km North Shore writers include: Antony Alpers*, Barbara Anderson*, Jean Bartlett, James Bertram*, Harry Bioletti, Hector Bolitho*, Dorothy Butler*, Sarah Campion*, John Reece Cole*, D’Arcy Cresswell*, Barry Crump*, Allen Curnow*, Lee Dowrick, Tessa Duder, Maurice Duggan*, Margaret Escott*, ARD Fairburn*, Janet Frame*, Maurice Gee, G.R.Gilbert, John Graham*, Sam Hunt*, Robin Hyde*, Kevin Ireland*, Anna Kavan, Sheridan Keith, Shonagh Koea*, Jack Lasenby*, Graeme Lay*, Michele Leggott*, Susie Mactier*, Bruce Mason*, RAK Mason*, Phoebe Meikle*, Rosemary Menzies, Ian Middleton, Isabel Peacocke, Joan Rosier-Jones, Anne Salmond*, William Satchell, Tina Shaw*, Keith Sinclair*, Frank Sargeson*, Kendrick Smithyman, CK Stead, Greville Texidor*, Paul Titchener, Arthur Saunders Thomson, Hone Tuwhare, Noel Virtue*, Virginia Were, Jess Whitworth, Wensley Willcox, Phillip Wilson,Karl Wolfskehl* *Writers featured in this booklet. Cover photo: Maurice Duggan, Greville Texidor (seated) and Barbara Duggan. Courtesy of Barbara Duggan. There is also the feeling that writers are appreciated here. As former Shore resident and children’s author Tessa Duder puts it, ‘The North Shore, through Frank Sargeson, Rex Fairburn, Kevin Ireland and others, values writers as eminent additions to the View of Devonport from Parnell, cultural identity of the Shore, and is proud of them.’ watercolour by Alfred Sharpe, 1877. Not all places take such pride. INTRODUCTION Long attracted to the area by its beaches, easy-going Some of New Zealand’s most enduring short stories, way of life and proximity to, but physical separation plays, poems and novels were written on, and at least from, the central city, the writers who have lived or to some extent inspired by, the North Shore. -
Ephemera/Sheet Music
CATALOGUE FOR POETRY ARCHIVE OF NZ/AOTEAROA Ephemera/Sheet Music Description A Nest of Singing Birds School Journal Exhibition brochure 2007 Alistair Te Ariki Campbell exhibition 15 April-1 May 2011 poster and flyers and poem ‘Alistair Te Ariki Campbell’ by L E Scott from Dominion Post, 21 April 2011 Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Maori Legends book cover (colour laser printout copy) Anonymous poem [initials S.A.R.M.?date 28/3/23 Hunterville: Bruce Park Ode “The Voice of the Bush” Argot broadsheets by various poets AUP Catalogue 2008 AUP Catalogue 2009 AUP Catalogue 2010 – 2 copies AUP Catalogue 2011 Alan Brunton memorial concert & launch of Fq programme 2002 Allen Curnow Landfall in Unknown Seas broadsheet Govt printer An anthology of Gay and Lesbian poetry flyers and order forms 1999 Awa Press Catalogue 2005 Awa Press – Harry Ricketts’ Book of NZ Sports Writing 2010 launch invite Bad Poetry Makes History – PANZA (Poetry Archive) article Capital Times 1999 Barry Southam – two poems The bride and The poet insideletter 2010 Basim Furat Here and There book launch invite 2004 Basim Furat & Lewis Scott An Afternoon of poetry & music flyer 23 February 2003 Bill Manhire and Norman Meehan Buddhist Rain jazz concerts flyer 2010 Bill Sewell Ballad of ’51 book launch invite 2003 Bill Sewell ‘Where Water Has Been’ postcard Bill Sewell 1951-29 January 2003 – funeral programme Blues for Sam Mark Pirie broadsheet Brian Gregory Lines for Lilburn broadsheet poem Brian Turner What It’s Like postcard National Poetry Day 2010 Caxton Press Anthology – NZ Poetry -
Denis Glover, 1912 – 1980 Sarah Shieff
189 Denis Glover, 1912 – 1980 Sarah Shieff Denis James Matthews Glover, renowned in his day as a wit, war hero, boxer, sailor and legendary drinker, remains one of New Zealand’s best-loved and most anthologised poets. Yet he tended to deprecate his own efforts at verse, regarding his work on behalf of other writers – as a printer, typographer and publisher – as an altogether more significant achievement. The Caxton Press, founded by Glover in Christchurch in 1936, occupies a signal position in New Zealand literary history. In his fifteen years at Caxton, Glover directed a publishing programme of poetry, criticism and short fiction which did much to define ‘New Zealand literature’ both for its day, and for much of the rest of the century. From 1947, the Press also sustained Landfall magazine. Caxton publications were distinguished by their physical beauty, reflecting Glover’s passionate commitment to excellence in typography, design and production. His friend and fellow-poet Allen Curnow later commented that at Caxton, Glover ‘created and kept in being … a centre which, under his care, did more than any other to help good writing in New Zealand and to raise publishing and book production standards.’ (Curnow Penguin 320). Denis Glover’s parents met in Dunedin. His father came from a family of affluent Irish drapers and merchandisers who emigrated to Wellington in 1884; within a generation, however, the family fortune had dissipated through bad investments, wayward children, and alcohol. The Glovers were nonetheless able to support Henry (Harry) Lawrence (b. Belfast, 1879), the fourth of eight Glover sons, in his desire to become a dentist. -
Thursday, July 30, 2020 Home-Delivered $1.90, Retail $2.20 Andy Haden: Pioneer, Colossus, Legend
TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 ANDY HADEN: PIONEER, COLOSSUS, LEGEND PAGE 7 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT // PAGES 20-23 PAGES 3, 6, COVID-19 8, 10-13, 16 • Co-payment sCheme for Kiwi ENCOURAGING YOUTH TO VOTE: Electoral Commission youth advocate Alice Kibble was at returnees slammed Gisborne Boys’ High School yesterday to explain more about the enrolment process and encourage young people to vote. She is pictured with student Jesse Russell who enrolled on the day. About 20 students turned up to find out more about the process • huge spiKeSFHGGFHS in foreigners looKing of enrolling, with half of those signing up to vote. The youth electoral education sessions at Gisborne high schools aim to get at living in nZ young people to exercise their democratic right to vote. Only 61 percent of eligible people under 24 are registered to vote in • less Cases but nine more deaths September’s election and there is uncertainty about how Covid-19 may contribute to voter turnout among young people. Youth in viCtoria PAGE 22 voter turnout in New Zealand has always been low but is on the rise. According to Electoral Commission statistics, the turnout for • expert says reusable faCe those aged 18 to 24 went from 62.7 percent in 2014 to 69.3 percent in 2017. This year’s General Election will be held on Saturday, masKs a must in nZ September 19, and it will be New Zealand’s biggest one yet. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell by Wynsley Wrigley “It is a long time since I have paid incorrectly.