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“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Digging a hole

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This letter from the latest issue of the London Review of Books ticks every box for me: it is from the Orkneys; it is about a vegetable ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Hamilton Press Club #1: Alison Mau

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The Wintec Press Club is dead. Long live the Hamilton Press Club! The full story of the change is here . Full credit to Steve Braunias for...
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Friday, May 4, 2018

Spectator sentence of the week

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I can’t decide between these two from the 28 April issue so here are both. A.N. Wilson writes in the Diary about his friend Jill Hamilt...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Waikato Times letter of the week #85

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This is for Jillian Ewart: from the edition of Tuesday 10 April. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed ...
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Friday, March 9, 2018

Report on experience: VUP edition

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To the capital for the launch last night at the Wellington Festival of three VUP books: All This by Chance , a novel by Vincent O’Sullivan...
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Friday, March 2, 2018

Gramophone letter of the month #1

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From the February 2018 issue. Speedy Debussy? I was so disappointed to read Harriet Smith’s review of Stephen Hough’s wonderful new Debu...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Waikato Times letter of the week #84

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From the edition of Wednesday February 21. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Wintec Press Club: Sean Plunket edition

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The Wintec Press Club luncheon is staged by the Wintec School of Media Arts three times a year for the benefit of their journalism students...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Spectator sentence of the year

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From Dot Wordsworth’s language column about Bishop Heber’s hymn “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”: He was a clever man and agreeable, lea...
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Waikato Times letter of the week #83

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From the edition of Saturday 4 November. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ....
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