Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
James Tate obituary - Iconoclastic and original American poet who won the Pulitzer prize
James Tate at his home in Pelham, Massachusetts, in 2011. Photograph: Christian Science Monitor/Getty
James Tate, who has died aged 71, was one of the most original and inventive American poets of his era, whose sense of humour and love of the tall story calls to mind an earlier Missouri-born master of the fable, Mark Twain. More
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