How to Gaze at the Southern Stars Richard Hall Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250995 Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels…
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According to Toss, Ian Richards
Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters ed Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $59.99, ISBN 0909010072 The first thing you notice about this handsomely produced volume from Te Papa Press is the title Woollaston, in large red letters, running down the…
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Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 68, Jill Trevelyan, June 2005, Te Papa Press
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
A particular dedication, Hilary Stace
Books in Maori: An Annotated Bibliography, 1815-1900/ Nga Tanga Reo Maori: Nga Kohikohinga Me Ona Whakamarama compiled in the Alexander Turnbull Library by Phil Parkinson and Penny Griffith Reed, $120, ISBN 079000951X New Zealand has traditionally lacked “bibliodensity”. This term…
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Tagged with: Alexander Turnbull Library, Hilary Stace, Issue 68, June 2005, Penny Griffith, Phil Parkinson, Reed
Posted in History, Language, Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in History, Language, Literature, Māori, Review
Telling tales out of school, Harvey Molloy
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…
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Tagged with: David Cohen, David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Harvey Molloy, Issue 68, June 2005, Steele Roberts
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, History, Non-fiction, Review
Something to be proud of, Megan Clayton
An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi Claudia Orange Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242160 I was born on Waitangi Day and grew up in the years after it was made a public holiday, which meant that the commemoration…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Claudia Orange, Issue 68, June 2005, Megan Clayton
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Pinning down the “again” factor, Linda Burgess
The Other Ark Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $27.95, ISBN 090878385X Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths Gavin Bishop Random, $29.95, ISBN 1869416120 Koro’s Medicine Melanie Drewery, illustrations by Sabrina Malcolm Huia, $16.95, ISBN 1869691044 Clubs Kate De Goldi, illustrations by…
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Tagged with: Gavin Bishop, Huia, Issue 68, Jacqui Colley, June 2005, Kate De Goldi, Linda Burgess, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Melanie Drewery, Random, Sabrina Malcolm, Trapeze
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Retreating from success, Julia Millen
After the Fireworks: A Life of David Ballantyne Bryan Reid Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403274 David Ballantyne’s life in many ways represents the Kiwi dream. Boy from cash-strapped, part-Maori, provincial family, with minimal schooling, through talent and hard work…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bryan Reid, David Ballantyne, Issue 68, Julia Millen, June 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A matter of balance, Harvey McQueen
Spirit Abroad: A Second Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse ed Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts and Mike Grimshaw Godwit, $39.95, ISBN 1869621115 Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry ed Robin Law and Heather Murray University of Otago Press, $39.95,…
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Tagged with: Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Harvey McQueen, Heather Murray, Issue 68, June 2005, Mike Grimshaw, Otago University Press, Paul Morris, Robin Law
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Speaking for themselves, John Holt
Remembering: Writing Oral History ed Anna Green and Megan Hutching Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 1869403177 The first oral history project I undertook at university very nearly didn’t make it past the first hurdle. The project was to create and…
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Tagged with: Anna Green, Auckland University Press, Issue 68, John Holt, June 2005, Megan Hutching
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
A seat on the bus, Elspeth Sandys
The recent tragic death of novelist and short-story writer Bronwyn Tate set me thinking, not for the first time, about why her works were not better known in this country. I’m not alone in regarding her as a fine writer,…
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