Author(s): John Geraets

Literature | Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction | Poetry | Titus Books | Aotearoa

Description: Everything's Something in Place publishes a selection from the lifetime's work of editor, critic and poet John Geraets. It includes influential essays first published in the NZ Listener, Landfall, Poetry NZ, the Journal of NZ Literature, as well as other journals and publications. It is, as Roger Horrocks says: `rich, adventurous writing, with a vibrant sense of language and a wide reaching set of interests (from Zen Buddhism to biography, religion to Language Poetry, Derrida to the history of NZ lit).' It includes essays on Allen and Wystan Curnow, Kendrick Smithyman, Brasch's Landfall, Zen Buddhism, and more general essays on movements within local literature. It also includes generous selections from the writer's published poetry books. In its entirety it is a fascinating and insightful addition to NZ literature and criticism.

Review: There are not too many critical minds on our New Zealand literary landscape that always seem fresh and deserve constantly to be watched. John Geraets is one, and I warmly commend his new writings. -C.K. Stead; This counterpoint of poetry and prose brings us the highpoints of a life's extraordinary work. -Roger Horrocks

Author Biography: John Geraets has published five books of poetry. He was editor of the `New Writing' special issue of JNZL (2016); editor of A Brief Description of the Whole World through 12 issues from 1999-2002; and he has published several essays in Landfall, the NZ Listener, the Journal of NZ Literature as well as a number of magazines in Japan and the USA. He currently resides in Whangarei.