The three stooges: Owen Marshall on his mates

Today Owen Marshall, Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner release a big hardback book called Landmarks. A braiding of essays, paintings and poems, it’s a companion title to the trio’s Timeless Land, published in 1995. It’s a tribute to place, but it’s also about low-key, enduring friendship, as Marshall explains.  In her emails to us, Harriet … Read more

The Friday Poem: ‘Small Town Blues’ by Brian Turner

New verse by Oturehua writer Brian Turner.   Small Town Blues   To hell with the songs of birds, the buzzing of bees and the breeze breathing in the trees,   there’s always someone who thinks the whole village appreciates their taste in music.   Brian Turner, 2018 The Spinoff Review of Books is proudly … Read more