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brief magazine will appear
under a new editor in 2024.

The new issue will be the fifty seventh printed issue.

The brief writer's group renews its insistence
upon the value of seeing one's work
printed and bound and in good company.
That company includes many little-known writers
pushing at the borders of the conventional
with astounding freshness of approach.

Apply to join the Writers Group

HERE

You will be asked for a few details about your publications (if any)
of poems, fiction, non-fiction, history or songs, a sample of your work
and you may be invited to answer a couple of questions.
Once accepted, you will be charged a subscription,
you be required to send work to the editor by an annual deadline
and you will receive one copy by mail of the annual issue.

You may live in any area of New Zealand.
You will be invited to the launches of the annual issue
(probably in Auckland, but sometimes in Dunedin).
If you live outside New Zealand
you may be charged a little more for postage.

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THE ULTIMATE
READER OF LOVE
FOR THE BOOK

An Anthology of Writers Deeply Concerned about
massive book disposals occurring at
the National Library of New Zealand
Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
("the wellsprings of knowledge")

2021. 64pp.

Read it online at No Disposals

Heartfelt thanks to Phantom Billstickers
for street level QR posters
and nationwide café distribution
in spring-summer 2021

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OVERBOARD 2

160 years of fine acquisitions and half a century

of inadequate storage

leading to disposals on an unprecedented scale

at the National Library of New Zealand.

2021. 28pp.

Printed edition is sold out sorry
but
Free Download
from nodisposals.neocities.org

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Percutio
Final annual issue Number 11, 2017

Editor's translations end the series of eleven Percutios since 2006.
Thanks to all contributors, especially translators.
P 2017 selects 38 poems by canonical European poets.
An introduction establishes chronology and affiliation.
A translation, version or response in English accompanies each poem.

Le dernier numéro de Percutio contient
une quarantaine de poèmes européens (de 700 av. J.C. à nos jours).
avec en vis-à-vis une traduction, une variante, un commentaire ou une suite.
Une introduction situe chaque poème dans son époque.

90 pp, soft cover
ISSN: 1953-1427
R.R.P. : $(NZ)20 / €15
Terms of trade for bookshops: Consignment or Firm Sale (preferred).

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SOME NEW POETRY
FROM BILL DIREEN

100 Years of Darkness
poetic wrap-ups of films from a century
of darkened cinemas.

Stream Light
28 poems and an exhibition/performance
where the audience moves through NZ's history
from arrivals to traumas and departures.
Illustrations by Scott Flanagan.

Seasons
One long poem set in Middlemarch, Otago.
ISBN 978-19911671-0-1

To buy online:

FLYING OUT

RELICS RECORD SHOP

VOLUME BOOK STORE

Shop in person:
Nelson: Volume Bookshop, 15 Church St Nelson 7010. In stock.

Christchurch: Scorpio Books, 120 Hereford Street, BNZ Centre, Christchurch 8011.

Dunedin: UBS Otago, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum Reserve, Dunedin 9016.

Relics: St Andrew St.
Wellington: Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington 1011.
Flying Out, 80 Pitt St, Auckland 1010.

For MAIL ORDER in USA go to

Grapefruit

or Sophomore Lounge

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NUSQUAMA
Definitive revised edition (2022)

with a key to the characters.

Limited edition
(sold out)

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ROAD RUNNER

USA Tour Diary in poem form
2020. 40pp

sold out sorry

Flying Out may have some copies.

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NS uSaaUs RZ

Sampler of prose extracts and poetry

2019. 44pp sold out sorry

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EN WOLFSKEHL ZU

Homage to Karl Wolfskehl

2019. 20pp sold out sorry
electronic version

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Enclosures4

Enclosures 4 contents:
Tyrant Dream Story
Mutism: prose
G: a mathematical story
Manima & Minima: a story of complementary opposites
Theatrefraught: prose
On Drainage: about windmills (historical)
Lyrics
Stoat: Interview of sorts
Film: sequences
Fin
Index of the Four Little Books


Interview with Anna Livesy in Ears Wide Open, about the Enclosures series (1 to 4).

Interview with Tania Robinson on OARadio about 2018 theatre-music song and improvisation and 2018 touring.

https://theopenbook.co.nz/products/bill-direen-enclosures-4

Enclosures 4 contains a folk tale, creative essays, a plan for a theatre in mourning, mathematical desperation and lyrics from recent text-music recordings with Wellington trio Ferocious. It contains the last instalments of a fragmentary novel about Dunedin denizen Robert Stoat.
Any of the books or sections within them may be read independently. The Enclosures titles enclose selected writings, each with its own preoccupations.
This volume is concerned with speech and liberation in the focus media of cinema, theatre and the visual arts, through sound and silence, in darkness and in light.

Further information on the Enclosures series (pdf)

Enclosures3

Five further pieces of fiction, patient diary, travel diary and essay
by New Zealand musician-poet Bill Direen.

127 pp, soft cover
ISBN: 978-0-9951010-0-5
R.R.P.: $(NZ)20
Terms of trade for bookshops: Consignment (3 months) or Firm Sale (preferred).
Postage anywhere in the world is included in the prices for online and wholesale sales.

 

Percutio
Issue Number 10, 2016

Inscriptions from grave sites (English & Ancient Greek),
an essay discussing Malakula (Vanuatu) rites
with reference to Virgil and many Greek myths,
and reviews of non-mainstream NZ books of the last 12 months.

76 pp, soft cover
ISSN: 1953-1427
R.R.P.: $(NZ)20
Postage is included in the prices for online and wholesale sales.
Terms of trade for bookshops: Consignment or Firm Sale (preferred).
Postage within New Zealand is included in the prices for online and wholesale sales.


Enclosures2

Fiction, poetry, diary, utopia and zootopia
in fragmentary instalment novel by Bill Direen.

190 pp, soft cover 
$(NZ)24.95 
ISBN 979-10-91280-04-4
Terms of trade for NZ bookshops: S or R
R.R.P. (NZ) is $24.95


Terms of trade for bookshops: Consignment (3 months) or Firm Sale (preferred).
Postage anywhere in the world is included in the prices for online and wholesale sales.

 

Enclosures(1)

First part of the four part fragmentary instalment
novel by Bill Direen.

It appeared in 2008
Reprinted July 2009.
132pp. 12.5 x 18cm. Soft cover.
300 copies. isbn 978-1-877441-06-6 It was printed in New Zealand and contained:
The Princess of Nineveh and the Musician: tale Places and People: historical
How the Mirror Came to the Museum
Jonah: novella
Notebooks from France and New Zealand Jones: a voyage
The Stadium: novella

To purchase try Book Depository

 

Titus Roma

Percussum
Nous soutenir / Donations Page

News

A few copies of Percutio 2015 still available (various contributors)

CONTACT PERCUTIO
 
  WILLIAM DIREEN

SOUND FILES Not Given Lightly #1 Readings/ Recordings

Titus T Not Given Lightly #2 Fiction & Auto-Fiction

DOWNLOADABLE ESSAYS Not Given LIghtly #3 Articles & Essays

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New: Free downloads of writing 1997-2015 (pdfs) by Bill Direen

 

Past contributors: Doireann Ni Ghriofa, Joel Chace, Richard von Sturmer, Franco Bianciardi, David Mackenzie, Mark Pirie, Mary Cresswell, Jacques Coulardeau, Lindsay Smith, Mary-Anne Bourke, Jo Contag, Campbell Walker, David Eggleton, Scott Flanagan, José-Manuel Lopes, Sally Ann McIntyre, Lisa Samuels, Wystan Curnow, Ted Jenner, Grant McDonagh, Jonathan Crayford, David Karena-Homes, Stuart Page, Cilla McQueen, Michael Steven, Sue Wootton, Nick Ascroft, Richard Reeve, Sandra Sarala, Gunther Dietrich, Robin Maconie, France Hervé, Steve Dean, Jim Wilson, Ben Webb, Jack Ross, David Howard, Mike Johnson, Jessica Denton, James Norcliffe, Mila Kovan, Geoff Cush, K.M Ross, Greg Waterston, Scott Hamilton, Eden Bradfield, William Direen, Nigel Bunn, Chris Walshaw, Mark Williams, Dairena Ni Chinèide, Peter Olds, Sandra Bianciardi, Jenny Powell, Thomas Findeiss, Peter Davies, Jowe Head, Michael Morrissey, Vaughan Rapatahana, Eckhart von Hochheim, Nathan Creech, Matthew Swanson, Brett Cross, Andrew Schmidt, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, April Dolkar, Arno Loeffler, Sandra Bell, I.A.F. Goldsmith, T.J.Costelloe, Jessica L. Meyer, Katherine Mansfield