Research Catalog

Title

Still shines when you think of it : a festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan / edited by Bill Manhire and Peter Whiteford.

Publication

Wellington [N.Z.] : Victoria University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Manhire, Bill, 1946-
• Whiteford, Peter
• Akenson, Donald H
• O'Sullivan, Vincent

Subject

• O'Sullivan, Vincent > Criticism and interpretation
• English literature > History and criticism
• New Zealand literature > History and criticism
• New Zealand poetry > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• New Zealand poetry – 20th century.
• New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
• New Zealand literature – 20th century.
• New Zealand literature – 21st century.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Articles and poems.
• Contributors: Don Akenson ... [et al.].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Bill Manhire and Peter Whiteford -- A present for Vince, with past and future / K. O. Arvidson -- The importance of appearing not to be earnest / Richard Mulgan -- Ursula Bethell's poetry : notes on technique and significance / MacDonald P. Jackson -- Credit in Chaucer's Shipman's tale / Robert Easting -- Politics, espionage and exile : Ian Milner and Ric Throssell / Bruce Bennett -- Voice and authority in Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry / Michael Hulse -- The butcher at the gates of dawn : choice words for choice occasions / Murray Bramwell -- Hic iacet pilatus : Vincent O'Sullivan's 'Pilate tapes' / Peter Whiteford -- 'O friend! O teacher! God's great gift to me!' : Coleridge about Wordsworth / Heidi Thomson -- Vincent / Michael Jackson -- From Bellona's child : a memoir / Brian Matthews -- Talking points : a note on Man alone / Bill Manhire -- A certain 'nervous elegance' and all that / Brian Turner --^
• A lost classic : Vincent O'Sullivan's Lysistrata / David Carnegie -- A well-flung shuriken : Vincent in the rehearsal room : a memoir / Phillip Mann -- Vincent O'Sullivan's Billy and other plays / Sebastian Black -- Rites of spring : a song & sonnet suite for Vincent / Syd Harrex -- Three Calypsos : Baxter's variations on a mythic theme / Geoffrey Miles -- Three poems for Vincent / Anna Jackson -- Dandy with revolver / Michael Morley -- 'And on the sixth day God created the strong-necked, shorter-snouted, larger-tusked wolves, lions, and bears' : some conceptions and misconceptions about animals in early England / Christine Franzen -- The irresistible reconstruction / Owen Marshall -- 'The O'Sullivan way' : some reflections on Vincent O'Sullivan's early short stories / Harry Ricketts -- Textuality and the grotesque in Vincent O'Sullivan's, Believers to the bright coast / Paul Millar -- John Bios, Bible translator, in old age / David Norton -- Two poems / Brian Turner --^
• 'At the bay' : a ghost's story / Kathryn Walls -- From Mount Nebo, Vincent O'Sullivan views the promised land / Don Akenson -- The stone's in the midst of all / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Contributors' notes.

ISBN

• 9780864735713 (pbk.)
• 0864735715 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 212374143
• SCSB-12411759

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library