Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Islandwritten by Tim Higham, illustrated by Harry Higham. Wellington: Cuba press (2021). RRP: $38.00. Pb, 162 pp. ISBN: 978-1-98-859540-5. Reviewed by: M Oliver “I am not here to work on this island. It is here to work on me.” (Talking to trees, p. 134) The ‘work’…
AUP New Poets 8. Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, Modi Deng. Edited and with a foreword by Anna Jackson. Auckland University Press, ISBN: 20219781869409456. RRP: $29.99. 120 pp. Review by Mary Cresswell. Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng all share a skill in moving beyond traditional poetry constraints in this collection. Each of them sustains…
All Tito’s Children by Tim Grgec.Wellington: VUP (2021).RRP: $25. Pb, 96pp.ISBN: 9781776564286.Reviewed by Jessie Neilson. Tim Grgec’s Yugoslavian heritage is the focus of his debut poetry collection. He has masters’ degrees in English literature and creative writing from Victoria University and won the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry (2018). In All Tito’s Children, Grgec selects…