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Issue 56 | December 2002

  Volume 12 | Number 5 | Issue 56 | December 2002 Tony Simpson: Damien Wilkins, When Famous People Come to Town; Kate Camp, On Kissing; Vincent O’Sullivan, On Longing Editorial Letters Harry Ricketts: Angus Gillies, Adam Parore: The Wicked

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Screw on the loose, Greg Newbold

The Journey to Prison: Who Goes and Why Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950433X Over the last few years, Celia (“Ces”) Lashlie, through her outspoken and sometimes controversial rhetoric, has become a well-known and popular speaker on criminal justice issues

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Letters – Issue 56

Cosmopolitanism Mark Williams’s review of Damien Wilkins’s Chemistry (October 2002 issue) is a convincing defence against Patrick Evans’ claims that Wilkins, and other young New Zealand authors, are courting a lucrative cosmopolitanism while neglecting their duty to the local and

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Poem – Nick Ascroft

The 27th of December: at:   “The time the chemist’s car got robbed, because They still require medicine around The tide of christmas, Grandad would’ve drowned If left alone in – like his neighbour was: “That morning, officer, because you

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The terror of the ordinary, Paul Millar

A Needle in the Heart Fiona Kidman Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 186941523X The six stories in A Needle in the Heart confirm Fiona Kidman’s place among the top tier of New Zealand short story writers. This is no small success as

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Running away to sea, Redmer Yska

Swirly World: the solo voyages Andrew Fagan HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 186590402X Wet Behind the Ears: adventures of a runaway sailor Peter Taylor HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869504003 With the sea breathing down their necks, New Zealanders are drawn more than most

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No easy answers, Kirstie Archer

A Passing Guest Elspeth Sandys Flamingo, $24.95, ISBN 1869504054 In A Passing Guest, Elspeth Sandys bravely tackles contemporary New Zealand issues which many Pakeha authors shy away from: Maori and Pakeha relationships, Maori poverty, gang culture, and family breakdown. The

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The French defection, Owen Marshall

Son of France  Geoff Cush Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415027 An intellectual comic novel needs a good idea, and Geoff Cush had one for Son of France. What if the French, instead of being thwarted at Akaroa, had succeeded in making

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Gloves off, Harry Ricketts

Adam Parore: The Wicked Keeper Angus Gillies Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 014301837X A friend and I used to have a favourite game. The game had several different permutations, but in its simplest form it involved imagining writers as cricketers and selecting

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From the dark room, Michael Grimshaw

Snapshots on the Journey: through death & remembrance: an anthology of poems ed Rod MacLeod Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228672 Anthologies of poetry serve different purposes; the intent can be as important as the content. Michael Roberts’ Faber Book of

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