Crikey, the crapola has hit the fan over the Montana shortlist this year. It usually does. But first: LeafSalon's heartiest...

It's been a long time between postings for this ex-pat. Here's an extra long rave to make up for it...

Apropos of nothing really, except that it's always good to remember these things, Henry Feltham has an insider's story of...

Henry Feltham is back with a thought-provoking muse (stroke chin here) about puritanism in NZ reviewing and writing, prompted by...

So Sydney eh? It's been nearly three months and the sensory twitches that twang those twenty-something memories are starting to...

LeafSalon lives! Yes sirree, despite the fact that we've moved over the ditch to the big smoke of Sydney your...

I can't believe it's been a whole month since I posted. There are reasons however, the most obvious of which...

In the words of the immortal Ronnie Barker 'It's been a funny old week'. Actually I think he always said...

The Hunter family has just returned yesterday from a Gold Coast holiday - high point Seaworld, we agreed. Cheesy but...

We're about to go on holiday for about ten days (the Gold Coast - mostly for the kids, but maybe,...

A LeafSalon reader, Jen Wittig, has sent in a review of Carl Nixon's Rocking Horse Road. As regular readers will...

Time for a quick round up of upcoming events - and they're all in my lovely community, Titirangi, in West...

Another LeafSalon reader, Auckland poet Tania Brady, has happily (for us) consented to helping us out with the occasional poetry...

5.45pm and I'm racing out the door to various deeply glamorous poetry events, I suddenly realise LeafSalon languishes unenlightened -...

A quick de-brief from my Auckland perspective of Montana Poetry day: I must urge you all to check out the...

I've just read two new NZ books back to back and enjoyed them both hugely in totally different ways. They...

Had to put this up right away, thanks Mary McCallum for sending it in so promptly: 'The Writers on Monday...

Well after last week's excitement you'll all be glad to know that visiting poet Dora Malech is fine and has...

Mary McCallum reports once more on the Writers on Mondays readings - this time with with Mr Geoff Cochrane. It's...

And now for something completely different: two extraordinary books from left-of-centre that have caught our eye in the last couple...