(Download) "Publishing Curnow." by JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Publishing Curnow.
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 173 KB
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Memory is always something, but if memory were ever good enough--even of a moment ago!--would we want poetry? Isn't this the necessary irritant? Because of it, memory is a thing of the present, a thing of the future too, if that is not already taken care of. (1) I don't remember actually when I first met Allen Curnow face to face but that is perhaps because in a sense I had always known him. My father had worked with him at the Press in Christchurch in the 1930s, greatly admired him and shared his love of Italy and fondness for light verse. He was responsible for the award of an honorary degree by the University of Canterbury in 1975 and at his request Allen's poem, 'The skeleton of the great moa ...' was read at his Funeral, three bare months before Allen's own. My father-in-law Jim Caffin was also a Christchurch journalist and a colleague of Allen's and his memories, also fond, and Allen's of him, were of parries--Allen climbing on a roof in the middle of the night, Jim drunk in the shrubbery. He too died in 2001 and left me copies of some of Allen Curnow's earliest books.
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