Especially useful overviews of New Zealand literature are Patrick Evans, The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature (1990); and Terry Sturm (ed.), The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, 2nd ed. (1998). Other critical studies and histories are E.H. McCormick, New Zealand Literature: A Survey (1959); Joan Stevens, The New Zealand Novel, 1860–1965, 2nd ed. rev. (1966); C.K. Stead, In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (1981), and Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers (1989); Lawrence Jones, Barbed Wire & Mirrors: Essays on New Zealand Prose (1987); Mark Williams, Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists (1990); Alex Calder (ed.), The Writing of New Zealand: Inventions and Identities (1993); and Kai Jensen, Whole Men: The Masculine Tradition in New Zealand Literature (1996).
Anthologies of Maori literature include Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell (eds.), Traditional Songs of the Maori (1975, reprinted 1990); and Witi Ihimaera and D.S. Long (eds.), Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing (1982). Wide-ranging anthologies of poetry are Allen Curnow (ed.), A Book of New Zealand Verse, 1923–50 (1951), and The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1960); Fleur Adcock (ed.), The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (1982); Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen (eds.), The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1985); Vincent O’Sullivan (ed.), An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Poetry, 3rd ed. (1987); Miriama Evans, Harvey McQueen, and Ian Wedde (eds.), The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (1989); and Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien, and Mark Williams (eds.), An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997). Anthologies of short stories include Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire (eds.), Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories (1984); Vincent O’Sullivan (ed.), The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories (1992); and Michael Morrissey (ed.), The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000). Other anthologies are Charles Brasch (ed.), Landfall Country (1962); MacDonald P. Jackson and Vincent O’Sullivan (eds.), The Oxford Book of New Zealand Writing Since 1945 (1983); and Fergus Barrowman (compiler), The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (1996). Landfall (semiannual) is a New Zealand literary journal.
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