Unposted, Autumn Leaves / A Memoir In Essays by Stephen Oliver 2021
Unposted, Autumn Leaves /
A Memoir In Essays
Author: Stephen Oliver
Publication date: April 2021
Format: softcover
340 pages
Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
ISBN 978-0-646-83311-8
RRP $30.00
Greywacke Press, Canberra, 2021
A transtasman poet, born in New Zealand and resident in Australia for two decades, and now returned to New Zealand, Oliver has been a mainstay of the Antipodes creative nonfiction section for many years. His winsome, rueful, self-effacing, and above all inventive essays manifest at once an acrid irony toward all overweening aspirations and yet still cherish a hope for personal and even social transformation … it is to Oliver that we should look for the genuine commonalities between Australia and New Zealand, and their respective literatures. It is here that I find the poetry and prose of Stephen Oliver so valuable.’ Nicholas Birns—Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Vol. 29.2 December 2015, 'Substances by Which We Sense Ourselves’.
review of Stephen Oliver's Unposted, Autumn Leaves/ A Memoir In Essays