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,…
See more ›
Blog Archives
Steady as she goes, Colin James
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…
See more ›
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 61, Keith Holyoake, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 61
Rediscovering the great white discoverer, Jock Phillips
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond Allen Lane, $59.95, ISBN 0713996617 I will not forget reading Anne Salmond’s Two Worlds. I was on holiday at Tolaga Bay. Between walks to Cook’s Cove…
See more ›
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Anne Salmond, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Forging on, Roger Blackley
Good as Goldie: the amazing story of New Zealand’s most famous art forger Karl F Sim (C F Goldie) and Tim Wilson Hodder Moa Beckett, $35, ISBN 1869589076 You know me as a forger, but I’ve had more lives…
See more ›
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, C F Goldie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 61, Karl F Sim, Roger Blackley, Tim Wilson
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Domestic pastoral, Harry Ricketts
Summer Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734522 Jenny Bornholdt’s poems could be called “domestic pastoral”. This is one of the strongest – though often undervalued – lines in New Zealand poetry. You can trace it from Ursula Bethell’s…
See more ›
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Harry Ricketts, Issue 61, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Because it’s still there, Geoff Chapple
Everest – Summit of Achievement Stephen Venables Allen & Unwin, $79.95, ISBN 1741140668 Everest – 50 Years on Top of the World George Band Collins, $49.95, ISBN 0007147481 High Adventure: Our Ascent of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary Allen & Unwin,…
See more ›
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 2003, Christine Gee, Collins, Corgi Books, Garry Weare, Geoff Chapple, George Band, Issue 61, Margaret Gee, Rider, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stephen Venables
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The missionary position, Laurence Jenkins
Slow Water Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734506 In 1836, William Yate, clergyman and missionary, aged 3, set sail from London for his beloved Waimate North, the New Zealand mission which had been founded in 1823 by the…
See more ›
Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Laurence Jenkins, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Biting irreverence, David Eggleton
Dog: Poems C K Stead Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402863 Amongst our intelligentsia the bald dome of C K Stead looms large. In the identity parade of contemporary New Zealand culture, he is one of those controversialists, one of…
See more ›
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, C K Stead, David Eggleton, Issue 61
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Writers and Readers Week line-up
Richard Ford, Jenny Diski, Alistair MacLeod and Clive James are among overseas writers expected to appear during next year’s New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week. With them will be poets Mark Doty and Sharon Thesen, fiction writers Etgar Keret,…
Posted in Comment