By international standards all New Zealand publishing is small press publishing. The country is home to only 4.73 million people. If a significant proportion of the adult population supports the authors of cookery and gardening books, such enthusiasm rarely extends to buying titles by novelists, playwrights, and poets.
[What follows as a kind of Christmas gift is a work I prepared for a conference on “God and Grace” in London sponsored by Cambridge and Notre Dame Universities and that I later presented at this year’s meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in San Diego.
Some time ago I was traversing through Papers Past, an archive of digitised newspapers managed by the National Library of New Zealand, when I fortuitously encountered six poems by Lola Ridge in the New Zealand Illustrated and The New Zealand Tablet.
'Strange Self-Congratulations, Flat Whites': Some notes on Bill Manhire
Robert McLean
By international standards all New Zealand publishing is small press publishing. The country is home to only 4.73 million people. If a significant proportion of the adult population supports the authors of cookery and gardening books, such enthusiasm rarely extends to buying titles by novelists, playwrights, and poets.
Jerome Rothenberg: From 'Four Books' (in progress): 'A Book of Gods'
[What follows as a kind of Christmas gift is a work I prepared for a conference on “God and Grace” in London sponsored by Cambridge and Notre Dame Universities and that I later presented at this year’s meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in San Diego.
'reflecting each other as obliquely as in cracked mirrors'
Lola Ridge and poetry’s refractions in Aotearoa
Some time ago I was traversing through Papers Past, an archive of digitised newspapers managed by the National Library of New Zealand, when I fortuitously encountered six poems by Lola Ridge in the New Zealand Illustrated and The New Zealand Tablet.
Alice Notley's 'The Descent of Alette'
To reimagine a genre can be to imagine a better world.
Tom Raworth on Ted Greenwald
I’m sorry I can’t be there tonight. But sorrier still anyone has to be there. Our dear friend Ted is gone, but books and memories remain.