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Charles Brasch


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Anthology
A good handful: great New Zealand poems about sex. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Voyager link
Landfall Country. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1962. Voyager link
"Reluctant campers? Compiling New Zealand literary culture." Span 39; Oct (1994): 69-83.
Such separate creatures: stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1973. Voyager link
The colour of distance: New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005. Voyager link
Dominion Post August 6 (2005): E10-11.
Listener 200.3407; August 27 (2005): 46.
Takahe 57; Autumn/Winter (2006): 50.
The nature of things: poems from the New Zealand landscape. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2005. Voyager link
Under Flagstaff: an anthology of Dunedin poetry. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.
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Article
"A poets view." Press April 24 (2004): D14.
"A writers organization." Landfall 93; Mar (1970): 85-88.
"Notes." Landfall 9; Mar (1949): 3-6.
"Notes." Landfall 25; Mar (1953): 3-4.
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Criticism
Landfall 1-80; (1947). (Note: Editor March 1947-December 1966)
"Notes." Landfall 10; June (1949): 99-104.
"Notes." Landfall 74; June (1965): 107-109.
The Universal Dance: a Selection from the Critical Prose Writings of Charles Brasch. Dunedin, University of Otago Press 1981.
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Drama
The Quest: Words for a Mime Play. London, 1946.
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Essay
"Introduction." Such Separate Creatures: stories. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1973.
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Letter
Dear Charles, Dear Janet: Frame & Brasch in correspondence. Auckland, Holloway Press 2010.
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Memoir
Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947. Wellington, Oxford University Press 1980.
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Non Fiction
Charles Brasch in Egypt. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2007.
Hallensteins: the First Century, 1873-1973. Dunedin: Hallenstein Bros, 1973. Voyager link
Present Company: Reflections on the Arts. Auckland: Blackwood and Janet Paul for the Auckland Gallery Associates, 1966. Voyager link
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Poetry
"A lady of ten; Shoriken; Hotlines from the hellpress." Landfall 100; Dec (1971): 339-344.
"All my days." Landfall 82; June (1967): 162.
Ambulando: Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1964.
"Autumn in Spring; Self to self." Landfall 19; Sept (1951): 206-208.
"Autumn; Thurlby Domain." Landfall 32; Dec (1954): 277.
"Ben Rudd." Landfall 44; Dec (1957): 295-299.
Black rose. Nagmani 1967.
"Blueskin Bay." Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand 5; (1949): 131.
Collected Poems. Auckland, Oxford University Press 1984.
"Discord for Louis MacNeice." Comment: a New Zealand Quarterly Review 19; April (1964): 46.
Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1948.
"Harvest is over; So little love; Ode in grey; Signals." Landfall 85; Mar (1968): 7-10.
Home Ground: Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1974.
"In these islands; The city; The silent land." Folios of New Writing Autumn (1941): 70-71.
"Karitane; Traditional song; Song from a play." Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand 2; (1946): 117-118.
Not Far Off: Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1969.
Poems by Esenin. Wellington, Wai-te-ata Press 1970.
The Estate, and Other Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1957.
The Land and the People, and Other Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1939.
"The rabbiter: to Jack Baxter." Arts Year book 6; (1950): 121.
"Towards leafbreak." Landfall 70; June (1964): 137-140.
"True diamond." Comment: a New Zealand Quarterly Review 1; Spring (1959): 10.
"Walking invisible." Landfall 93; Mar (1970): 3.
"Winter anemones; Tempora mutantur; Watch-dog; Poem; I am bread, Lord; It is the physicians love heals the patient; Manifest; The way up is the way down." Islands 2.3; Spring (1973): 226-229.
 

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Anthology
Jones, Lawrence. Nurse to the imagination: 50 years of the Robbie Burns Fellowship. University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2008.
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Article
"[Untitled]." Spleen 5; Sept (1976): 10. (Note: Reports on the Charles Brasch Festival in Dunedin)
Bertram, James. "Charles Brasch Arts Festival." Islands 5; Sept (1976): 79-85.
Sinclair, Keith. "New Zealand literary history." New Zealand Journal of History 12.1; April (1978): 69-74.
Geraets, John. "Kendrick Smithyman and Brasch's Landfall." Landfall 40; Dec (1986): 443-457.
Wilson, Tim. "A gay outing." Listener February 1 (1997): 48-49.
Smith, Charmian. "Windfall for NZ art: Landfall." Otago Daily Times November 25 (1997): 17.
Wilkins, Mark. "A poetry unit for fourth formers." English in Aotearoa 34; May (1998): 31-40.
Simpson, P. "McCahon in 1947-48: a new date, a lost exhibition and some letters." Art New Zealand 100; Spring (2001): 88, 130-93, 131.
Matthews, Philip. "Thinking of you." Listener November 3 (2001): 30-31.
Kerr, Donald. "Charles Orwell Brasch (1909-1973): patron, poet and collector." New Zealand Libraries 49.9; Sept (2003): 313.
Entwisle, Peter. "Papers shed light on Braschs life." Otago Daily Times June 9 (2003): 13.
Sharp, Iain. "The secret life of us." Sunday Star Times May 25 (2003): Sunday: 31-Sunday: 31.
Eggleton, David. "This uneducated land." Listener August 9 (2003): 58-59.
Brasch, Charles. "A poets view." Press April 24 (2004): D14.
Smith, Charmian. "Taking her time to portray the real Brasch." Otago Daily Times February 7 (2004): Sup. p.4.
"Marking a milestone at Hocken Library." Otago Daily Times January 18 (2007): 29.
Benson, Nigel. "The secret life of Brasch." Otago Daily Times October 1 (2009): 30.
Smith, Charmian. "Notes on a friendship." Otago Daily Times August 28 (2010): 51.
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Biography
Weir, John Edward. "Charles Brasch, 1909-1973." Education 22.7; (1973): 28-30.
McCormick, E.H. "Charles Brasch, editor of Landfall." Southerly 33; (1973): 432-439.
Bertram, James. Charles Brasch. Oxford University Press, Wellington, 1976.
Bertram, James. New Zealand poets in retrospect. Radio New Zealand, Wellington, 1986.
Harding, Bruce. Man of words: Charles Brasch: editor supremo, rabbi & Dutch uncle of New Zealand letters. Originally from Curnow, Caxton, and the Canon. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, Dunedin, 1996.
Harding, Bruce. "Man of words: Charles Brasch: editor supremo, rabbi & Dutch uncle of New Zealand letters." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 17; (1999): 71-84.
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Criticism
Bertram, James. "Two New Zealand poets." Education 2.4; Sept (1949): 59-61.
Bertram, James. "Two New Zealand poets." Education 2.3; July (1949): 56.
Harris, Jocelyn. "A question of discipline." Critic July 11 (1963): 9.
Gurr, A.J. "The two realities of New Zealand poetry." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 1; Sept (1965): 122-134.
Sturm, Terry. "New Zealand poetry and the Depression." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2; Dec (1966): 124-137.
Whalley, G. "Celebration and elegy in New Zealand verse." Queens Quarterly 74; (1967): 738-738.
O'Sullivan, Vincent. "Brief permitted morning: notes on the poetry of Charles Brasch." Landfall 23; Dec (1969): 338-353.
Daalder, Joost. "Disputed Ground in the poetry of Charles Brasch." Landfall 26; Sept (1972): 247-254.
Daalder, Joost. "Charles Brasch and the betrayal of romanticism." Pacific Quarterly 3; Jan (1978): 75-85.
Bertram, James. "Charles Brasch in perspective." Turnbull Library Record 12; May (1979): 29-36.
Stead, C.K. In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature. Auckland University Press : Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1982.
Geraets, John. "An interior landscape: Charles Braschs Indirections and The Universal Dance." Islands 1; July (1984): 71-84.
Bertram, James. Flight of the Phoenix: critical notes on New Zealand writers. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1985.
Oliver, W.H. "Recent literary biography." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 2; (1985): 47-58.
Jones, Lawrence. "The one story, two ways of telling, three perspectives: recent New Zealand literary autobiographies." Ariel 16.4; Oct (1985): 127-150.
Bertram, James. New Zealand poets in retrospect: eight New Zealand poets, no longer living, are placed in social and poetic context. Replay Radio, Wellington, 1986.
Manhire, Bill. "Breaking the line: a view of American and New Zealand poetry." Islands 3.2; Dec (1987): 142-154.
Pound, Francis. "Distance looks our way." La distancia mira hacia nostros: 10 artistas deNueva Zelanda (Distance looks our way: 10 artists from New Zealand). The Trustees, Distance Looks our Way Trust, Wellington, 1992: 21-30.
Pound, Francis. "Painting and Landfall, and painting as literatures death." Landfall 185; April (1993): 78-85.
Roberts, Hugh. "Can identity be helped? Landfall, chaos, and the creation of a New Zealand national literature." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 14; (1996): 24-60.
Wells, Peter. "Introduction: modest achievements." Best mates: Gay Writing in Aotearoa NewZealand. Reed, Auckland, 1997: 7-31.
Wright, F. W. Nielsen. Notes on Charles Brasch as a poet: an essay. Cultural and Political Booklets, Wellington, 1998.
Newton, John. "Colonialism above the Snowline: Baughan, Ruskin and the South Island Myth." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34.2; (1999): 85-96.
Stead, C.K. Fifty years ago: some images of the young poet and his elders, Brasch, Curnow, Sargeson. Hocken Library, Dunedin, 2006.
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Exhibitions
University of Otago Library, Special Collections. ’I sat down in the evening to read’: books from the library of Charles Brasch, poet, 1909-1973. University of Otago, Dunedin, 2009.
Poland, Natalie. Charles Brasch: in the company of artists: 1 August - 10 October 2009, Hocken Gallery. Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin, 2009.
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Interview
Baxter, James K. "Writers in conference." Here and Now 9; June (1951): 27-28.
Milner, Ian. "Conversation with Charles Brasch." Landfall 25; Dec (1971): 344-372.
McLauchlan, Gordon. "From Shadbolt with no love lost." New Zealand Herald April 24 (1999): J1.
Smith, Charmian. "Brasch papers reveal quiet, caring nature." Otago Daily Times June 5 (2003): 29-30.
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Lecture
Simpson, Peter. Patron and painter: Charles Brasch and Colin McCahon: the 2009 Hocken lecture. Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin, 2010.
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Letter
Frame, Janet. "Letter to Margaret Scott." Landfall 218; Spring (2009): 127-129.
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Memoir
Shadbolt, Maurice. From the Edge of the Sky: a memoir. David Ling, Auckland, 1999.
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Non Fiction
Kerr, Donald. Enduring legacy: Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector. Oxford University Press, Dunedin, 2003.
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Obituary
Frame, Janet. "Charles Brasch 1909-73: tributes and memories from his friends." Islands 2.3; Spring (1973): 232-253.
Horsman, Alan. "Words at the funeral of Charles Brasch." Islands 2; Spring (1973): 230-231.
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Photographs
Friedlander, Marti. "A silent waltz: photographs by Marti Friedlander." Landfall 198; Spring (1999): 240-257.
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Profile
Stead, C.K. "Charles Brasch." Contemporary poets of the English language. St Martins Press, New York, 1971: 127.
Bertram, James. Listener 1682; February 7 (1972): 46.
Rhodes, H. Winston. "Charles Brasch: a valedictory." NZ Monthly Review 14.146; July (1973): 23-24.
Rhodes, H. Winston. "Charles Brasch: editor and poet, 1909-1973." Meanjin Quarterly 32; Sept (1973): 314-315.
Bertram, James. "Charles Brash: last landfall." Listener 73.1752; June 11 (1973): 12-13.
"Dr Charles Brasch." Critic May 29 (1973): 3.
Sinclair, Keith. "He gave so much, so quietly." NZ Bookworld 2; July (1973): 9.
Wilson, Phillip. "Memories of Charles Brasch." Landfall 27; June (1973): 83-85.
"Charles Brasch: collector and patron." NZ Libraries 37; April (1974): 52-68.
Wedde, Ian. "Captivating invitation: getting on to Charles Braschs Home Ground." Islands 4; Spring (1975): 315-327.
Sharp, Iain. "Son of Landfall." New Zealand Books 2.4; Mar (1993): 21.
Geraets, John. "Reluctant campers? Compiling New Zealand literary culture." Span 39; Oct (1994): 69-83.
Scott, Margaret. "A footnote." Landfall 218; Spring (2009): 124-126.
Campbell, Joanne. "Charles Brasch: the persuasive patron." Art New Zealand 132; Summer (2009): 60-64, 71.
Roddick, Alan. "How well did you know Charles Brasch?." Landfall 218; Spring (2009): 122-123.
Benson, Nigel. "Man alone." Otago Daily Times March 14 (2009): 45-46.
Entwisle, Peter. "Remembering Charles Brasch." Landfall Spring (2009): 118-121.
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Thesis
Paisley, John. The double vision: local and universal in the work of two New Zealand poets. University of Otago, Dunedin, 1966.
Ross, E. J. Charles Brasch, Matthew Arnold, and New Zealand literary culture: an exploration of the nature and impact of Brasch’s tastes and values: a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. University of Otago, Dunedin, 2004.
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