11th November, 2018The Mangel-wurzel, monster of endless warToday people all over the world will come together to think about World War I and those who fought in it. How could we remember better? And what can we do with remembering?By Andrew JohnstonGuest writer
22nd August, 2017Poetry week at the Spinoff: how an award-winning poet got startedAll week this week the Spinoff Review of Books is devoted to poetry in the build-up to the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day on Friday. Yesterday we ran an essay by Helen Hogan, editor of 1970s anthologies of poetry by New Zealand college students; today, an essay by distinguished poet Andrew Johnston, who Hogan published when he was a 14-year-old schoolboy in the Hutt Valley.By Andrew JohnstonGuest writer
4th March, 2016The Friday poem: A sequence from ‘Echo in Limbo’, by Andrew JohnstonA sequence of poems by Andrew Johnston, a New Zealand writer who lives in Paris.By Andrew JohnstonGuest writer