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Owen Bullock

Owen Bullock’s most recent publications are semi (Puncher & Wattmann, 2017) and River’s Edge (Recent Work Press, 2016). A further collection, Work & Play, is forthcoming in 2017 from Recent Work Press. He has edited a number of journals and anthologies, including Poetry New Zealand. He has a PhD in Creative Writing, recently completed at the University of Canberra. In his research on semiotics and poetry he discusses the work of Alistair Paterson, Alan Loney and Michele Leggott.

Owen Bullock Reviews Rachel Blau DuPlessis

The title of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s new book is a reversal of Hesiod’s Works and Days, which introduced the character of Pandora to the world. At the front of the book, before even the title page, is the statement ‘We are living in late catapultism’.

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Owen Bullock Reviews A Transpacific Poetics

Lisa Samuels’s introductory essay, ‘What Do We Mean When We Say Transpacific’, begins with a quotation from Pam Brown that is particularly well-chosen for this volume. Brown claims that the ‘authentic’ pertains to someone who isn’t manipulated or being alienated from their context. There’s a good deal in this book about alienation relating to identity and culture; many of the authors have had to fight to preserve authenticity.

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Owen Bullock Reviews Alan Loney

The publication of these notebooks completes the series that begins with Sidetracks – Notebooks 1976-1991 (Auckland University Press, 1998) and ends with Crankhandle – Notebooks November 2010-June 2012 (Cordite Books, 2015), the latter winning the Victoria Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry 2016.

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Owen Bullock Reviews Murray Edmond

Murray Edmond is a New Zealand poet of long-standing achievement. He published the first of twelve previous collections, Entering the Eye, way back in 1973 with Caveman Press; the most recent was Three Travels (Holloway Press, 2012). He is a dramaturge, with a career ranging from the experimental Red Mole Theatre Company to the present Indian Ink Theatre Company.

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live through

a pottery angel rises from the mantelpiece to the gallus energy of new morning the entelechy of words works through sleep, we dream repeats, we have all the time in the world to design cities weed vegetable beds watch pittosporum …

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