The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
The Friday Review
07/08/2020
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Reviews
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
The Wednesday Review
05/08/2020
‘If there was a door on a wall and I could walk through it to the past, I would.’ – Peter Wells
The room where it happened
Ockhams fiction judge Mark Broatch comes clean.
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Shocks and Stats
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
Writers’ Round Table | 2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
The Interview: Vincent O’Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan on the drive to write, the contradictions of fiction, and the dangers of lingering in the poetry hot-house.
Listen, Memory
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
Our Many Pasts: Historical Fiction
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
Conversation/Kōrero: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley
Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.
The Interview – Kevin Ireland
Kevin Ireland in conversation with Iain Sharpe - September 2016
Iain Sharpe grills Kevin Ireland on Crump, Bogart and the New Zealand 'voice'.
‘I named myself after a street in Ponsonby’
New releases
The Tally Stick (novel)
Published by Penguin Random House on August 4, 2020
Sprigs (novel)
Published by Lawrence & Gibson on July 23, 2020
Landfall 239: Autumn 2020
Published by Otago University Press on June 15, 2020
Shape of the Heart (poetry)
Published by Quentin Wilson Publishing on June 2, 2020
One Minute Crying Time (memoir)
Published by Massey University Press on May 9, 2020
Every Now and Then I Have Another Child (poetry)
Published by Otago University Press on May 6, 2020
Ephemera (novel)
Published by Cloud Ink Press on April 1, 2020
High Wire (fiction/illustrated)
Published by Massey University Press on May 9, 2020
Funkhaus (poetry)
Published by Victoria University Press on May 14, 2020
The Reed Warbler (novel)
Published by Victoria University Press on May 14, 2020
'Novels stand outside time, with their narrative structure of beginning, middle and end. They outlast politics, which are by nature ephemeral, swift and changeable and can quickly become invisible, detectable only to the skilled eye. ' - Fiona Farrell