The 1929 Essex Six Our first car, bought for a fiver, from a farmer who’d dumped it decades before under thick gorse in a corner paddock where mushrooms sprouted on the back seat. After days of tinkering we got…
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Opening a vein, Paul Thomas
Down Boy Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $20.00, ISBN 1877393258 Hillsides: The Best of David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $25.00, ISBN 0958262608 The American sportswriter Red Smith, who produced a daily column for 22 consecutive years, reckoned being a columnist was easy:…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2007, David Hill, Hazard Press, Issue 77, Joe Bennett, Mallinson Rendel, Paul Thomas
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Field notes, Gerald McGhie
Black Saturday: New Zealand’s Tragic Blunders in Samoa Michael Field Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790011034 Samoa-New Zealand relations are nothing if not complex. Michael Field in Black Saturday, while presenting an overview of Samoan history, focuses on a not only complex…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Gerald McGhie, Issue 77, Michael Field, Reed
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A tale half-told, Brian Easton
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002 John Singleton (with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes) Auckland University Press (in association with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage), $49.99, ISBN 1869403649 This history of the Reserve…
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Tagged with: Arthur Grimes, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Brian Easton, Frank Holmes, Gary Hawke, Issue 77, John Singleton, Ministry of Culture and Heritage
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Not enough clash and clang, Anna Livesey
Cup Alison Wong Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 1877338761 The Joy of a Ming Vase Ruth Dallas Otago University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372307 Brief Lives Chris Price Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403630 The Word Went Round David Howard Otago University…
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Tagged with: Alison Wong, Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Chris Price, David Howard, Issue 77, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Turn it off and on again, Reuben Schwarz
Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-government, Computer Failure and Information Systems Development Robin Gauld and Shaun Goldfinch Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 18773723X Anyone who follows IT news knows that many large-scale projects end up as catastrophic failures. Even when the projects do…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Otago University Press, Reuben Schwarz, Robin Gauld, Shaun Goldfinch
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Removing the cycle clips, John Horrocks
Like Love Poems: Selected Poems Joanna Margaret Paul (ed Bernadette Hall) Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735278 Modern Colours Wystan Curnow Jack Books, $24.95, ISBN 0473102544 One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 08646735286…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Bernadette Hall, Dinah Hawken, Issue 77, Jack Books, James Brown, Joanna Margaret Pau, John Horrocks, Michael Jackson, Victoria University Press, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Home truths, Philip Temple
The Accidental Anthropologist Michael Jackson Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 187736147X The epigraphs an author chooses may be taken as a guide to his intent, and Michael Jackson chose two. From Rilke, he derives: “We are born, so to speak, provisionally,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Longacre Press, Michael Jackson, Philip Temple
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Dear Miss Williams, Mark Williams
Critic and literary historian Mark Williams describes how he learnt to love his feminine side Adolescents commonly write poetry, but they write poems to themselves rather than for an audience. If they write for others, it is usually to interest…
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