LITTLE MAGAZINES
WO issues of Image, a quarterly edited by Robert Thompson (Auckland, 2/6) have now appeared. They are neat in appearance, modest in scope, and earnest in intention, The editor’s policy is "to encourage the unknown writers of promise and to support the established." So far there appear to be more poets than prose writers, a situation rather different from what may now be found in the wider literary scene, where fiction is flourishing; and the prose seems to be more uneven than the verse. But the little magazine looks well, and deserves encouragement, Nucleus, described as "an occasional," and also published in Auckland, is smaller than Image, but may have more vitality. Its home is the University, and its editors-W. Curnow and P. Crooksare two slightly angry young men who believe that students, in spite of "the deplorable absence of any dynamic intellectuality" among them, have the ability to bring about a minor renaissance in University writing. The contents — again more verse than prose — suggest that the editors may be right. The most promising contribution is a very short story, "Dear Mister," by Denis Taylor. There are also two early poems by R. A. K. Mason, previously unpublished,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 15
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