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ROM Book Shop to ZB Books, which proceeds rather more serenely, largely, I suspect, becouse it keeps to a limited number of proved speakers, and gives them more time. There is a cunning choice of speakers. It leads from an earthy enjoyer of a good yarn, like R. H, Thompson-regular ZB material, meaning no disrespect-through a more subtle but forthrightly anti-intellectual speaker, like O. A. Gillespie, to the real highbrows. These can usually be counted on to bandy names and ideas not usually heard from the ZBs. I always admire the way Frank Sargeson can use the most diverse kinds of book to start him on a tack of his own. The Chapman and Bennett anthology was a less surprising starting-point than some I’ve heard him use, but the consideration of the social position of poetry in New Zealand today which it led to was as stimulating as most of his asides. As always, he asked questions: he does not deal in answers. It strikes me as odd, though, that the most colloquial of our writers should wear the most literary clothes on the air, even to the "I have" and "you are" where it would seem more natural to say "I’ve" and "you're."
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 17
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