independent press news
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The
brief writer's group (Auckland) has spread its wings
and many of its writers are now working
independently in print or online media
or in publishing itself.
They are still pushing at the borders
of the conventional
with astounding freshness of approach.
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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
Thanks to Phantom Billstickers
for street level QR posters
and nationwide café distribution
in spring-summer 2021
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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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Seasons
One long poem set in Middlemarch, Otago.
ISBN 978-19911671-0-1
To buy online:
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
NUSQUAMA
Definitive revised edition (2022)
with a key to the characters.
Limited edition
(sold out)
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ROAD RUNNERUSA
Tour Diary in poem form
2020.
40pp
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Sampler of prose extracts and poetry
2019. 44pp sold out sorry
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Homage to Karl Wolfskehl
2019. 20pp sold
out sorry
electronic version
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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).
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)
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
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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
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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
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(preferred).
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wholesale sales.
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
Nous
soutenir / Donations Page
A few copies of Percutio 2015 still available (various contributors)
CONTACT
PERCUTIO
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DIREEN
Not Given Lightly #1 Readings/ Recordings
Not Given Lightly #2 Fiction & Auto-Fiction
Not Given LIghtly #3
Articles & Essays
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
