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Letters of Denis Glover
Published by Otago University Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1988592542ISBN 13: 9781988592541
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 800 pages. Oh Christ, a bloody 1/2 witted student, for purpos es of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter writ e verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something de eper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what's said that isn' t there? So much. And I have been very rude indeed. - Letter to J ohn Reece Cole, 16 August 1949 Nothing about this excerpt from a letter by Denis Glover will surprise anyone who knows him by repu tation. He - and his letters - could be witty, intelligent, alarm ingly frank and frequently highly entertaining. A widely admired poet, honoured naval commander, gifted printer and typographer, D enis Glover was founder of the Caxton Press in Christchurch. For 15 years from 1935 he directed a publishing programme that did mu ch to define New Zealand literature for its day, and for much of the rest of the century. His literary work was suspended for war service in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, during whi ch he earned a DSC for his activities in the Normandy landings. B ut he was also a serial philanderer and prodigious drinker, and h is private life increasingly disintegrated around him, more and m ore publicly. And yet his energy as a correspondent appeared neve r to wane, and almost to the end he confided openly, prolifically and entertainingly to hundreds of acquaintances and confidants. In this magnificent volume Sarah Shieff presents around 500 of Gl over's letters to around 110 people, drawn from an archive of nea rly 3000 letters to over 430 recipients. Many now recall Glover a s little more than a misogynistic old fart, a court jester. These letters should give readers the opportunity to revise - or at le ast complicate - those dismissive categorisations.--Nationwide Bo oks Distributors website.
