David Eggleton is a prolific poet, writer and critic. His most recent collection The Conch Trumpet (OUP, 2015) won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry, and he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in October 2016. His other awards include six times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, PEN Best First Book of Poetry in 1987 and the Robert Burns Fellowship.
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Vendeur : Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nouvelle-Zélande
Paperback. Etat : Good. Home is a classic Landfall Open House issue, where anything and everything goes. Submissions poured in on every topic conceivable, and the result is truly a feast of good writing and imagination. Courtney Sina Meredith, Emma Barnes, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Tony Beyer and C K Stead (among others) offer up new poems exploring topics as disparate as the body, the corner dairy, 'cloud' technology, silent film stars and more. All make for exhilarating reads. Be enchanted too by a wealth of short stories: Alex Wild Jespersens deftly humorous tale of a media studies tutor's first experience with girl-on-girl boxing, Vivienne Plumbs The Cabin Trunk, David Herkts story set in the rarefied world of the uber-wealthy at the height of the financial crisis and Laura Solomon's futuristic piece about a Kiwi cult that breeds 'shumans' (sheep/humans). 208 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 1577615
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Vendeur : Book Express (NZ), Shannon, Nouvelle-Zélande
Paperback. Etat : Good. 184 pages. ex-library Home is a classic Landfall Open House' issue, where anything and everything goes . Submissions poured in on every topic conceivable, and the result is truly a fe ast of good writing and imagination. Courtney Sina Meredith, Emma Barnes, Kay Mc Kenzie Cooke, Tony Beyer and C K Stead (among others) offer up new poems explori ng topics as disparate as the body, the corner dairy, 'cloud' technology, silent film stars and more. All make for exhilarating reads. Be enchanted too by a wea lth of short stories: Alex Wild Jespersen's deftly humorous tale of a media stud ies tutor's first experience with girl-on-girl boxing, Vivienne Plumb's The Cabi n Trunk', David Herkt's story set in the rarefied world of the uber-wealthy at t he height of the financial crisis and Laura Solomon's futuristic piece about a K iwi cult that breeds 'shumans' (sheep/humans). Nicholas Reid, John Horrocks, Pet er Simpson and others offer up considered reviews of recent New Zealand books an d Martin Rumsby investigates moving image installations. As for art, there's Ani ta DeSoto's otherworldly paintings, while Darryn George's unique blend of geomet ric abstraction and kowhaiwhai are present in both the portfolio pages and under discussion by David Eggleton in The Landfall Review. N° de réf. du vendeur 5263ac
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