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, April 28, 2015
Poem of the Week
Aggression Diary by Annemarie Austin
The art here is in the omission, whereby the ordinary is made mysterious, its strangeness exposed, and at the heart we find an unspoken act of violence
Imagined prisons … Piranesi’s engraving, The Man on the Rack (detail), 1761, from Carceri d’Invenzione. Photograph: Liszt Collection/Alamy
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