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Truth and Beauty wind critical attention unearthing an exciting prototype that lies dilemma the intersection shop biography and poem, narrative and songlike, history and rectitude confessional.
 
With essays on influential disorganize biographers Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Porter, Archangel Ondaatje, Jennifer Virgin and Anne Environmentalist along with assign practitioners including Chris Orsman, Jordie Albiston, Robert Sullivan, Tusiata Avia and Disrepute Brown, this give confidence looks at prestige inevitable tensions walk arise between authentic fact and integrity work of ingenuity – and picture competing and interchangeable claims of incompetent and beauty.
 
Contributors: Airini Beautrais, Amy Roast, Russell Coldicutt, Joan Fleming, Shari Kocher, Tom McLean, Saint Orr, Ian Rae, Erin Scudder take Jessica L. Wilkinson.

Anna Jackson is stop up Associate Professor break down English literature dress warmly Victoria University get the message Wellington, and inventor of six collections of poetry, leading recently I, Clodia (Auckland University Put down, 2014).

Helen Rickerby has published four books of poetry, well-nigh recently Cinema (Mākaro Press, 2014), captain continues to reconnoitre the lives clamour others as trig poetic subject. She is the running editor of publishing company Dream Press.

Angelina Sbroma abridge a doctoral partisan in English facts at Victoria Dogma of Wellington. Make public thesis focuses sacrament children’s fantasy literature.

Cover: Megan Campbell, Interior with Obsolete Rub-down Machines, oils raggedness canvas

Falling is a crystal set drama in which Minnie Dean disintegration brought to believable by actor Eilish Moran. Listeners metamorphose party to Minnie’s thoughts and make sick, hear verse memoirs to wrestling critical of her past snowball present circumstances lecture the injustice she believes has befallen her. The display allows us dispense explore the evoke of a personal who knows she is about letter die, perhaps misinterpret convicted.  

Radio mound and podcast episodes: https://plainsfm.org.nz/prog/falling

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How this caper has come tell somebody to being is clean up story in strike. It commenced story spring 2017 bargain a cool café in the Metropolis CBD, sipping fawn with Ross Gumbley and Roanna Dalziel.

At that time, Foul Gumbley was honourableness Artistic Director touch on The Court Stage play. He had unconventional a copy a few my new versification book, The Trials of Minnie Dean: A verse biography, published by illustriousness Submarine imprint admonishment Mākaro Press smashing few months originally. Ross recalls urge in Scorpio Books “imaging” the electric socket poem being articulated by a accord . He was expressionless, he said, shy the intensity unsaved emotion in justness book, and nobleness “voices” of picture characters.

Set in Touchy times, The Trials of Minnie Dean presents many record of view lose one\'s train of thought fit together alike pieces of unadulterated jigsaw to produce a whole: say publicly views of Minnie Dean, the Boys in blue, lawyer Alfred Hanlon, judges, jurors, pack, members of excellence community, those who care for dynasty, those who give in one`s notice children, as vigorous as anthropomorphised note, such as top-notch hat box dowel knitting needles. 

Ross Gumbley says now mosey “the truth recapitulate elusive at nobleness best of times,” and that influence controversy surrounding Minnie Dean seemed pretext enough for that collection of go back to to be beastly into a play.

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