essays & interviews

A selection of full-text commentary, research and criticism by poets and critics, and links to existing online material.

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Ken Arvidson

• Affirming lucidity: Edmond's 'wisdom poetry' (nzepc/NZ Books)
• Lauris Edmond (1924 – 2000) (nzepc/NZ Books)

Nick Ascroft

• Nick Ascroft Interviews Wellington Poets (Glottis)

Susan Ash

• A New Vantage Point. Review of Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)

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Pamela Banting

• The Lyric/Anti-Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen and Elizabeth Smither (ANZSC)

Douglas Barbour

•  A Short Note on Dinah Hawken and Michele Leggott (nzepc/NeWest Press)  
• Writing Through the Margins: Sharon Thesen's and Bill Manhire's Apprently Lyrical Poetry (ANZSC)
• Review of Fq by Alan Brunton (Jacket 24)

James K Baxter

•   'Pegasus Poet' (nzepc/NZ Listener)

Tony Beyer

• A Caveman Speaks (Southern Ocean Review 15)

Paola Bilbrough

• Wild Child. Bilbrough/Stoneking interview (Performance Poetry)

Gerri Blumenfeld

•  Karl Wolfskehl 1869-1948: Exul Poeta (Norbert Haley)

Alan Brunton

• Alan Brunton gets Jaamed (nzepc/JAAM 16)
• Questions and Answers. Brunton/Geraets interview (nzepc/brief 19)
• 1960-1969 Restoring the Commune (AUP/Big Smoke)
• Remarks on 'The Future of Poetry' (nzepc/Brief Description)
• Millennium: What's Left to the Imagination? (nzepc)
• Getting it Together (nzepc)

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Alex Calder

• Unsettling Settlement: Poetry and Nationalism in Aotearoa / New Zealand (nzepc/GNV)

Derek Challis

•   The Fate of the Iris Wilkinson Manuscripts (nzepc)

Stephen Chan

• Political Radicalism and Radical Literature: Usurpation and Incorporation in the New Zealand Literary World from 1969 (nzepc)

Janet Charman

• My Ursula Bethell

Dave Ciccoricco

• At Home on the Screen: Kinetics and Codeworks (nzepc)

Megan Clayton

• Thoroughly Modern Malory: Robin Hyde and Malorian Desire (nzepc)

Glenn Colquhoun

• Poetic Brandscapes interview

Christina Conrad

• The Table is Rumbling. Conrad/M.F. Downes interview (Alicubi Journal)

Robert Creeley

• A Note
• Robert Creeley in Conversation with Alan Riach, Hamilton 1995 (EPC)

Wystan Curnow

• High Culture Now! A Manifesto (nzepc)
• From the Notebooks (Log Illustrated 11)
• Writing History on the Margins: New Zealand (apexart)

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Leigh Davis

• Leigh Davis' Place (Jack Books)
• Glaring Deficiency (Jack Books)
• Country and Western (Jack Books)
• Notes on YES and NO (Jack Books)
• Speech at the Govett-Brewster Gallery for K Rd to Kingdom Come (Jack Books)
• Time, Text and Echoes (Jack Books)
• Six Degrees of Separation (Jack Books)
• Bearing Witness (Jack Books)

Lisa Docherty

• 'Do I Speak Well?' The Letters of Robin Hyde (HOW2)

John Dolan

• Pleasant Hell (The Exile)

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Margaret Edgcumbe (& Jack Ross)

• Life with Kendrick (nzepc/brief)

Lauris Edmond

• The Day the Quake Came (nzepc/More 167)
• Quirks and Quarks (ANZSC 9)
• Only Connect: The Making of an Autobiography (nzepc/Landfall)

Martin Edmond

• Of Doubt & Wonder : Literary non-fiction and the ways of change (CLL)

Murray Edmond

• 'Then it was now again': NZ Poetries and Colonial Histories. (nzepc/UTS Review 6.1)
• Poetics of the Impossible. (AUP/Big Smoke)
• What is an avant-garde? (AU English/Old Comrades of the Future)
• Re-A-Prizing the Oxford Anthology (The Pander 2)
• Divagations: Kendrick Smithyman's Poetry (nzepc/Landfall)
• No Paragraphs (Jacket 16)
• Obituary: Kendrick Smithyman (Evening Post)
• Alan Brunton, 1946-2002: A Memoir (Jacket 18)

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A R D Fairburn

• The Culture Industry (nzepc/ Landfall 39)

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Russell Haley

• Here Comes the Sun (nzepc/Spleen)

Bernadette Hall

• Tiny Signals on Paper (Sport9/NZETC)

Scott Hamilton

•   Reading Kendrick Smithyman (nzepc/brief)

Dean Hapeta (Te Kupu)

• Hip hop in Aotearoa/New Zealand (nzepc/IASPM)

Lyn Hejinian
          2 Auckland Talks (nzepc)

• A Talk to the MA Poetics class, 21 March 1995 
• A Talk to the Stage 3 American Poetry class, 23 March 1995

Roger Horrocks

• Lye, Creeley, Cage and EAT: New York 1967 (nzepc/AUP)
• The Invention of New Zealand (nzepc/AND 1)
• Afterword to Len Lye’s Happy Moments (nzepc/Holloway Press)

• My Word My World: Len Lye’s Poetry (nzepc/Landfall)

David Howard

• Interviewed by Richard Reeve (DeepSouth, Jan 2002)

Janet Hughes

• Reclaiming narrative: reviews of Jump Start by Virginia Were and Rapunzel Rapunzel by Janet Charman

Alison Hunt

• Dream Brothers: Utopian vision in Robin Hyde’s Nadath and Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Akhnaton (nzepc)

Robin Hyde

• Author's Foreword to The Godwits Fly (nzepc)
• The Flying-Off Place (1 September 1937) (nzepc)

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Mac Jackson

• Introduction to  A.R.D. Fairburn Selected Poems (nzepc/VUP)

Andrew Johnson

• Selected essays, reviews & articles (andrewjohnston.org)

Louis Johnson

• Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley (nzepc/Here and Now)

Michael Joseph

• Mary Stanley 1919-80 (nzepc/Islands)

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Cath Keneally

• Reviews of The Girls on the Wall by Diana Bridge and Rapunzel, Rapunzel by Janet Charman (nzepc)

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Michele Leggott

• Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record (nzepc/Opening the Book)
• Robin Hyde: The Victory Hymn 1935-1995. (nzepc/Holloway)
• Taking of each what is needed: Robin Blaser, Robin Hyde, Blue Irises and a Famous Variable (nzepc/Robin Blaser: The Recovery of the Public World)
• Onset of pericentral darkness (nzepc/boundary 2)
• ‘This grave festival my word praises’: Mary Stanley (nzepc)
• from Introduction to Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)

Terry Locke

• New Zealand Poetry Reviews (Hyperpoetics)

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Heather McCann

•  A Way of Seeing (nzepc)

Jill McLaren

• Mary Stanley 1919-80 (nzepc/Bridget Williams Books)

Bill Manhire

• Introduction to Mutes & Earthquakes (The Poetry Kit/VUP)
• Manhire/Sharp interview (nzepc/In the Same Room)
• Dirty Silence: Impure Sounds in New Zealand Poetry (ANZSC 4)
• Breaking the Line: A View of American and New Zealand Poetry (nzepc/VUP)

Peter H. Marsden

• 'From waka to whakapapa, Or: Carving your own canoe. The verse of Robert Sullivan' (nzepc)

Mike Minehan

• Jack Ross, A Conversation with Mike Minehan (Zoetropes)

Tony Mitchell

• 'Doin' Damage in My Native Language': The use of 'resistance vernaculars' in hip hop in France, Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand (nzepc/Popular Music and Society)

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Emma Neale

• Playfulness and Politics: New Zealand Poetry 1987-1990 (ANZSC)

John Newton

• Colonialism above the Snowline: Baughan, Ruskin and the South Island Myth (UCanterbury/JCL 34.2)
• 'Identity in the Future Anterior: Teaching Historical Discontinuity.' (nzepc/English in Aotearoa 41)
• The Death-Throes of Nationalism. Review of Kin of Place by C.K. Stead (Landfall / Jacket 22)
   

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Greg O'Brien

• A journey around Kendrick Smithyman’s Atua Wera (nzepc/VUP)
• After bathing at Baxter’s (nzepc/Sport 11)

Stephen Oliver

• One Day In The Life of Richard Ramos (SoMa Literary Review)
• Contempt: A Survey (Deep South 2001)
• One Day In The Life of Vicki Viidikas (Thylazine 5)
• The Poet As Fraud: A Composite (Thylazine 3)
• Babo (Boomerang UK)

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Joanna Margaret Paul

• Notes on a Poetic Language (Sport9/NZETC)

Mary Paul

• Robin Hyde: A Political Reading (HOW2)

Philippa Prebble

• 'Re-Setting the Past': Small Press Publishing in the South Island During the 197Os: The Rise of Caveman Press and Hawk Press (Southern Ocean Review/JAAM)

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Richard Reeve

• Interviews David Howard (DeepSouth, Jan 2002)

Trevor Reeves

• Cybergas or Papergas - a New Zealand Perspective (/wowzine/Meet the Editor)

Jack Ross

• Kendrick Smithyman's Northland (The Pander 1)
• A Conversation with Mike Minehan (Zoetropes)

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Patrick Sandbrook

• Introduction to The Godwits Fly 2001 edition (HOW2/AUP)

Maryann Savage

• Wound logic: The invincible Necessity of Mary Stanley. (nzepc)

Ian Sharp

• Introduction to The Best New Zealand Poems 2001 (International Institute of Modern Letters)

Gareth Shute

• Hip Hop in Aotearoa as a Contemporary Art-form (nzepc)

Peter Simpson

• Introduction to Selected Poems of Kendrick Smithyman (nzepc/AUP)
• The Smithyman Papers: A Preliminary Description (nzepc/brief)

Elizabeth Smither

• Head or Hat? (Sport9/NZETC)

Kendrick Smithyman

• Smithyman/Jackson interview (nzepc/Landfall)
• Dark Horses Capering (nzepc/New Zealand Poetry Yearbook IV)
• Note (nzepc/Recent Poetry in New Zealand)
• Introduction to the 1994 edition of Starveling Year (nzepc/AUP)

A.W. Stockwell

•   Review of Starveling Year (nzepc/Landfall)

Robert Sullivan

• Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Library Context  (D-Lib Magazine)

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Richard Von Sturmer

• Working with Nagarjuna (Linnaean  Sreet, Autumn-Winter 2002)

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Ian Wedde

• Living in Time: A Day at the Footie (nzepc/Engaging Practices)
• Killeen as History Painter: Stories Without Narrative (nzepc/AAG)
• Life Ho! (nzepc/Bright Paradise)
• Beauty, Sex, Heroism (nzepc/brief.22)
• Introduction to The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (nzepc/Penguin)
• Antipodean Hipster (nzepc/Landfall 201) 

Mark Williams

• Main Currents in Recent New Zealand Literature (Sport9/NZETC)

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Yang Lian

• Ghostspeak excerpts (nzepc/Renditions 46)
• In the Timeless Air: Chinese Language, Pound and The Cantos (Painted Bride Quarterly 65)
• Debate with Yang Lian at Deep Europe Workshop (Nettime Archive)
• Market Lines (Index on Censorship)

 MarkYoung

• Big Smoke correspondence 1998-2001
• Colin McCahon, Barry Lett Galleries Newsletter (1965) 
• Comments on a questionnaire, Kiwi 66 (1966)
• Paracelsus: The Philosopher’s Stone Made Flesh, nzepc (1994)
• Statement for Word for / Word (2004)

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Last updated 22 September, 2004