Emma Gattey reviews Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life by Diana Morrow and This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas collected poems edited by Nicola Cummins
A new schedule
From April, reviews will be published throughout the month.
A Tentative and Attentive Response
Tim Upperton on At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching; In the Temple by Catherine Bagnall and L. Jane Sayle, and A Game of Swans by Janet Wainscott
Proof Positive
Michael O’Leary on Kāwai: For such a time as this by Monty Soutar
Malicious Compliance
Erik Kennedy on Always Italicise: How to write while colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville; We Enter The by Piet Nieuwland; Dirge Bucolic by Jasmine Gallagher
Haunted by Home
Shana Chandra on Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles; Sign Language for the Death of Reason by Linda Collins; Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Island by Tim Highman
Trying to Read Standing Up
Alan Roddick on House & Contents by Gregory O’Brien; Museum by Frances Samuel; Farce by Murray Edmond
Liminal States
Iona Winter on Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka.
Bowled Basilisk, Caught Agdistis
Robert McLean on tumble by Joanna Preston; Reading the Signs by Janis Freegard; Slips: Cricket poems by Mark Pirie.
Maternal Alchemy: The (surprisingly) beautiful entropy of motherhood
Emma Gattey on When We Remember to Breathe by Michele Powles and Renee Liang