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Selected essays, reviews & articles by Andrew Johnston


Essays

Introduction to Best New Zealand Poems 2005

Creative Reading Afterword to Writing at the Edge of the Universe, edited by Mark Williams
(Canterbury University Press, November 2004)

Catholic With a Small c in The Source of the Song: New Zealand Writers on Catholicism, edited by Mark Williams. Victoria University Press, 1995

Surviving Desire: The Poetry of John Tranter Landfall 187, Autumn 1994.

The Ferris Wheel: The Making of a Poem Sport 11, Spring 1993; Stout Centre Review, Sept 1993

Entertaining Possibilities: Six Contemporary New Zealand Poets
(Allen Curnow, Bill Manhire, Gregory O'Brien, Michele Leggott, Dinah Hawken, Jenny Bornholdt)
Meanjin (Melbourne) Vol 51 No 3, Spring 1992. Literary Half-Yearly (Mysore, India), 33,1, Jan 1992

Reviews

Fusion Poetry: Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Gregory O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Smither
Stand (new series), vol 3 no. 3, Sept 2000

Michele Leggott, As Far As I Can See; Elizabeth Smither, The Lark Quartet Landfall 199, March 2000

Vincent O'Sullivan, Seeing You Asked; Believers to the Bright Coast Landfall 197, Autumn 1999

Michael Jackson, Antipodes Landfall 193, Autumn 1997

Ian Wedde, The Drummer Quote Unquote 4, Sept 1993

Dinah Hawken, Small Stories of Devotion Landfall 183, Sept 1992

Articles

Louise Gluck and the Public Face of a Private Artist The New York Times, Nov 4, 2003

Adding Len Lye to the Book of 20th-Century Art International Herald Tribune, May 4, 2001

Online and Onstage, Poetry Finds New Homes International Herald Tribune, October 5, 2000

Keri Hulme: Of Death and Fishing Evening Post, Nov 5, 1994

Maurice Gee: Our Superb Storyteller Evening Post, July 3, 1993.