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Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Mark Williams is a New Zealand poet, writer, academic, critic, and editor. He is Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington.

Mark Williams reviews 'Can You Tolerate This?: Personal essays' by Ashleigh Young

September 2017, no. 394 30 August 2017
Ashleigh Young is one of a number of writers currently distinguishing themselves as the latest generation to emerge from the creative writing program at Victoria University in Wellington. The course, founded by Bill Manhire in 1975, maintains the supply of excellence that attracted so much resentment as its ‘spectacular babies’ – from Barbara Anderson to Eleanor Catton – carried off the pr ... (read more)