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(1) VERSES BY Hinge iil gg 1943. Progressive Publishing Societ (2) THE POSTSCRIPTS . OF "CROWBAR. 4 Whitcombe & Tombs. (3) THREE FRONTS OF WAR, and other Poems. By Paula Hanger. Handcraft Press. W HIM-WHAM’S verses have all appeared in the Christchurch Press, and/or The New Zealand Listener. They are all bright, but not all light, if lightness suggests lack of purpose. They are in fact as purposeful as, say Low’s or Minhinnick’s cartoons, and like those sometimes hit and sometimes miss. But they don’t miss often, and most of our readers will be glad to have them selected and arranged by the author himself and admirably printed. "Crowbar," who becomes J. Finlay, Campbell on the title-page, knows that his verses are not poetry. He frankly
says so. But he has evidence, he says, and we do not doubt him, that "they have pleased not a few," and he thinks that some of those who have read him in newspaper columns will be glad to be able to buy them in volume form. It is certainly a good buying season. Paula Hanger’s title piece won, and no doubt deserved, the Jessie Mackay Memorial Prize for verse. It is certainly the case that Jessie Mackay herself would have appreciated Miss Hanger’s vigour, her dramatic touch, and her unblushing emotionalism. It will all sound very queer stuff in 10 years, but what war verse will not?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 238, 14 January 1944, Page 14
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234ALL SORTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 238, 14 January 1944, Page 14
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