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Issue 118 | Winter 2017

Volume 27 | Number 2 | Issue 118 |  Winter 2017   C K Stead: “The Year Was 69” (poem) Sarah Ross: Sue Wootton, Strip Ashlee Nelson: Sarah Laing, Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir Dinah Priestley: Sharon Murdoch (with

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Issue 117 | Autumn 2017

Volume 27 | Number 1 | Issue 117 | Autumn 2017   Editorial Letter Kevin Ireland: Adam Dudding, My Father’s Island: A Memoir Helene Wong: Tyl von Randow, Red Dust Over Shanghai: A Shanghai-New Zealand Memoir 1937-1954 Martin Edmond: Nick

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Issue 116 | Summer 2016

Volume 26 | Number 4 | Issue 116 | Summer 2016   Elizabeth Aitken-Rose: Penning in a digital world (byline) Ashleigh Young: Margot Roth, Roll on the Revolution … But Not Till After Xmas!: Selected Feminist Writing Ingrid Horrocks: Ashleigh Young,

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Issue 115 | Spring 2016

Volume 26 | Number 3 | Issue 115 | Spring 2016   Editorial Chris Orsman: “Memory Harbour” (poem) Charlotte Graham: Tracey Slaughter, Deleted Scenes for Lovers Thom Conroy: Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular Tatjana Schaefer: N K Ashworth, The Falconer’s

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Issue 114 | Winter 2016

Volume 26 | Number 2 | Issue 114 |  Winter 2016   Brian Easton: “Intellectual life” (comment) Michele A’Court: Dan Carter with Duncan Greive, Dan Carter: My Story Janet Hughes: Sarah Jane Barnett, Work; Emma Neale, Tender Machines; John Davidson, Soundings

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Issue 113 | Autumn 2016

2 Editorial
Letter
Tim Upperton: “The Bare Hook” (poem)
3 David Hill: Michael Brown and Mat Tait, The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales From New Zealand
4 Abby Loader and Abby Simpson: Whiti Hereaka, Bugs
Lucy Prestidge: Janet Frame, To the Is-Land
5 Emma Martin: Kate De Goldi, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle
6 Kathryn Walls: Joy Cowley, The Bakehouse; Barbara Else, The Knot Impossible: A Tale of Fontania; Stacy Gregg, The Girl Who Rode the Wind
7 Sarah Ross: Charlotte Grimshaw, Starlight Peninsula
8 Lloyd Jones: Bill Manhire, The Stories of Bill Manhire
9 Ingrid Horrocks: Martin Edmond, The Dreaming Land
10 Tina Shaw: Bianca Zander, The Predictions ; Sue Orr, The Party Line
11 Bryan Gould: Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine (eds), Moments of Truth: The New Zealand General Election of 2014
12 Ann Beaglehole: Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant (Michael Hall photographer), Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers Tell Their Stories
Nick Ascroft: “Five Limericks on Grief” (poem)
13 Paul Moon: Rebecca Lenihan, From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand Scots Migrants 1840-1920; Angela McCarthy, Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910
14 Rewa Morgan: Ron Crosby, Kūpapa – The Bitter Legacy of Māori Alliances with the Crown
15 Lydia Wevers: Tony Ballantyne, Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body
16 Cherie Lacey: Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds), The Lives of Colonial Objects
17 Tina Makereti: Arapera Blank, For Someone I Love – A Collection of Writing
18 John Dennison: Roger Horrocks, Song of the Ghost in the Machine; Murray Edmond, Shaggy Magpie Songs; Richard Reeve, Generation Kitchen
19 Spiro Zavos: Steve Williams with Michael Donaldson, Out of the Rough
20 Roger Robinson: Norman Harris (obituary)
21 Chris Else: Jerome Kaino, Jerome Kaino: My Story; Brando Yelavich, Wildboy; Lance O’Sullivan, The Good Doctor; Simon Grigg, How Bizarre; Laurence Fearnley, Lydia Bradey: Going Up is Easy
22 Chris Szekely: Donald Jackson Kerr, Hocken: Prince of Collectors
23 Bookshelf
24 Christina Stachurski: Alison Parr, Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past; Fiona Farrell, A Villa at the End of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City; Joe Bennett, King Rich
25 Elizabeth Crayford: David Hood, The Rhetoric and the Reality: New Zealand Schools and Schooling in the 21st Century
26 Wystan Curnow: Len Lye with Roger Horrocks, Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye
27 Kathryn Carmody: “Making the Pieces Fit” (comment)
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Issue 112 | Summer 2015

Volume 25 | Number 4 | Issue 112 | Summer 2015   Vincent O’Sullivan: W H (Bill) Oliver (obituary) John Saker: Phil Gifford, Inside the Cup: Secrets Behind Our All Black Campaigns Mark Reason: David Coventry, The Invisible Mile Jane

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Issue 111 | Spring 2015

Volume 25 | Number 3 |  Issue 111 | Spring 2015   Gregory O’Brien: Campbell Smith (obituary) Thom Conroy: Anna Smaill, The Chimes Sarah Laing: Catherine Robertson, The Hiding Places Letters Paula Morris: Patricia Grace, Chappy Ashlee Nelson: Julie Hill,

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Issue 110 | Winter 2015

Volume 25 | Number 2 |  Issue 110 | Winter 2015 Editorial Tina Makereti: Witi Ihimaera, Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood Letters Jane Westaway: Bridget van der Zijpp, In the Neighbourhood of Fame; Karen Breen, Sleep Sister Chris Else: “Poppy

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Issue 109 | Autumn 2015

Volume 25 | Number 1 |  Issue 109 | Autumn 2015 Letters Colin Peacock: Nicky Hager, Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment; Michael Field, The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans

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