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Issue 61 | December 2003

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Volume 13 | Number 5 | Issue 61 | December 2003 Geoff Chapple: Stephen Venables, Everest – Summit of Achievement; George Band, Everest – 50 years on Top of the World; Sir Edmund Hillary, High Adventure: Our Ascent of…

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Letters – Issue 61

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Hobson & co Dr Moon’s astounding personal attack on me in the Correspondence column of your October issue, following my review in August of his Path to the Treaty book, sadly demands a response. An “extraordinarily laconic” review? Well, there…

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Poem – J C Sturm

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Spring Dreams With two cats on his lap a fond woman at his side (sure she’s not a blond can’t recall her teens but still able enough and most times willing) he could be mildly happy, mourns instead the…

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Getting by with a little help, Nelson Wattie

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on their Friendships ed Jane Westaway and Tessa Copland Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135828 We’re unlikely to find a better definition of “friend” than the one in Lennon and McCartney’s famous lines:…

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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

On the whale’s back, Miro Bilbrough

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Miro Bilbrough on Whale Rider the movie I was unusually wary, seeing Whale Rider for the first time. was in the editing stages of a short feature film, a peculiarly sensitive time to see someone else’s film. Sequestered…

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In search of the “good” writer, Elspeth Sandys

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Growing up, as I did, in a bookish and quietly religious household, I concluded at an early age that a “good’” book – and that meant the classics, the reading of which was assumed to make you a better person – had…

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Poem – James Brown

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Letter Sir – I am very distressed by what can only be described as the lamentable state of poetry in this country today. In the past we have enjoyed a fine tradition of inspired, well-crafted verse from the likes…

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Breastfeeding and rhododendrons, Julia Millen

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

In a Strange Garden: the life and times of Truby King Lloyd Chapman Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018795 A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907-2000 Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869402901 Sir Truby King died…

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Posted in Biography, Health, History, Non-fiction

Poem – Jenny Bornholdt

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

December Last days of December broccoli squeaking on the stove and your hair – it’s a tidal wave crashing forwards as you bend to open the envelope you sent from Fielding, in 1971, to your father – in it,…

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Steady as she goes, Colin James

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Holyoake’s Lieutenants ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 8864694369 I came across Norm Shelton a day or two after Jack Marshall sacked him in February 1972 at the end of the Holyoake era. He had a pile of complimentary…

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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review