Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2014). ___ “Long ago and oh so far away,” Karen Carpenter sings. Her voice swells, fills the song with far more longing than the lyrics contain. She sounds so ‘sweet and pure’, but she’s not really here; it’s just YouTube. Karen Carpenter […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
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from Miles and Mabel, a novella ___ Tate Britain was crowded. Mabel and I weren’t the only citizens that had come out to look at an artwork the artist described as possessing the qualities of nothing. “It’s more powerful than I was expecting,” I said. The room was shady, as though […]
A Single Hurt Colour, reading, Litcrawl, November 2014 ___ In 2012 I was picked up from the Dunedin airport by a driver holding a sign: Megan Dunn and Jim and Mary Carr. I thought the sign was pretty funny. I had never met Jim or Mary but I knew they […]