by Sarah Scott | Nov 21, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
NINA MINGYA POWLES In the Hollow of the Wave (Auckland University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776711512. RRP $24.99. 96pp. ‘People asked me where I learned / and I said I taught myself the slow work of making’ (“Slipstitch”). Nina Mingya Powles’s writing has always...
by Sarah Scott | Aug 20, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
AMY MARGEURITE over under fed (Auckland University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776711642. RRP $24.99. 80pp. I first read over under fed in unusualcircumstances. On Takapuna Beach, I reclinedshivering on a towel marked ‘HOSPITALPROPERTY’, deep in Marguerite’s...
by Sarah Scott | May 20, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
NAFANUA PURCELL KERSEL Black Sugarcane (Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776922222. RRP $30.00. 128pp. Nafanua Purcell Kersel’s debut poetry collection Black Sugarcane is a generous invitation intocommunity and family, storytelling...
by Sarah Scott | Feb 5, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
JO MCNEICE Blue Hour (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2024). ISBN 978-1-99-004882-1. RRP $30.00. 68pp. The 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award winner Jo McNeice’s debut collection Blue Hour takes place in the spaces in-between – the flash of a camera, thunder...
by Erica Stretton | Nov 12, 2024 | A Fine Line, Reviews
MAJELLA CULLINANE Meantime (Dunedin: OUP 2024 ISBN 9781990048807). RRP $30.00 82pp. There are deep-seated expectations around death. The dying person never alone. Family and close friends attending. Physical contact, a hand held, a body embraced a last time....
by Erica Stretton | Sep 15, 2024 | A Fine Line, Reviews
Cadence Chung Mythos (Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-877159-32-9. RRP: $35.00. 92 pp. Fresh off the printers at Wai-te-ata Press, MYTHOS is lovely to look at: Hannah Hitchcock’s cover art makes me feel as if I’m peering...
