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Green thoughts in green shades, Hugh Roberts
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Geoff Cochrane, Hugh Roberts, Issue 100, James Brown, Otago University Press, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The good, the bad and the epic, Louise O’Brien
As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 0143011677 Who Sings for Lu? Alan Duff Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869790585 The Adventures of Vela Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869693633 Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver describes…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Albert Wendt, Alison Wong, Autumn 2010, Huia, Issue 89, Louise O’Brien, Penguin Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The necessity of lying, Mark Williams
Surfaces of Strangeness: Janet Frame and the Rhetoric of Madness Simone Oettli-van Delden Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734565 Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void Paul Sharrad Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403037 For a supposedly puritanical country…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Paul Sharrad, Simone Oettli-van Delden, Victoria University Press, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Indigenous voices, colonial language, Cilla McQueen
Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English ed Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402731 Captain Cook in the Underworld Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402812 “Before had England even…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Issue 60, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Away from home, David Eggleton
First and Last Songs Alan Riach Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 869401220 Photographs Albert Wendt Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 869401220 The notes at the back refer to quotations from Robert Burns’ Poems and Songs, and on the…
Tagged with: Alan Riach, Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 20, Summer 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Cryptic crosswords and intellectual judo, Chris Else
Black Rainbow Albert Wendt, Penguin, $29.95 Octavio’s Last Invention Michael Morrissey, Brick Row, $27.95 The world of Black Rainbow is a futuristic parody based on New Zealand Pakeha values, a world without crime, poverty or unemployment founded on a comfortable,…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Brick Row Publishing, Chris Else, Issue 7, Michael Morrissey, Penguin, Summer 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ambitious novel on a world stage, Erick Brenstrum
Ola Albert Wendt, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $34.95 At the beginning of Albert Wendt’s new novel he plays a game with the reader. ‘None of what follows’, he says, ‘was written by me’. It was, in fact, written by a woman…