| Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957 Contributor(s): Brasch, Charles (Author), Simpson, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1927322286 ISBN-13: 9781927322284 Publisher: Otago University Press OUR PRICE: $40.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Australian & Oceanian - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 828.914 |
| LCCN: 2017434634 |
| Series: Charles Brasch Journals |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" (2.90 lbs) 648 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia. His frank and often detailed descriptions of these people - including Frank Sargeson, A.R.D. Fairburn, Keith Sinclair, Eric McCormick, James Bertram, J.C. Beaglehole, Maria Dronke, Fred and Evelyn Page, Alistair Campbell, Bill Oliver, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Leo Bensemann, Lawrence Baigent, Ngaio Marsh, Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Ruth Dallas and many others - are among the highlights of the book. |