Literary feature reviews

An invisible presence: three Maori writers The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera London: Heinemann Kingswood. 1988. 122pp. £10.95hb The Matriarch Witi Ihimaera Auckland/London: Picador. 1988. 456pp. $16.95NZpb Potiki Patricia Grace London: The Women's Press. 1987. 185pp. £3.95pb The Bone People Keri Hulme London: Picador. 1986. 450pp. £4.95pb Te Kaihau—The Windeater Keri Hulme London: Sceptre. 1988. 234pp. £3.99pb The new Chinese poetry Lost souls: the new Chinese poetry Songs of my Heart: the Chinese lyric poetry of Ruan Ji Translated by Graham Harthill and Wu Fusheng London: Wellsweep Press. 1988. 96pp. £4.50pb The August Sleepwalker: poems Bei Dao Translated by Bonnie McDougall London: Anvil. 1988. 140pp. £5.95pb Looking out from Death: from the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. The new Chinese poetry of Duoduo Translated by Gregory Lee and John Cayley London: Bloomsbury. 1989. 125pp. £4.99pb Statements. The new Chinese poetry of Duoduo Translated by Gregory Lee and John Cayley London: Wellsweep Press. 1989. 69pp. £4.95pb

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