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Issue 3 | October 1991
Volume 1 | Number 3 | Issue 3 | October 1991 J M Thomson: “Looking forward” Les Cleveland: Paul Freyberg, Bernard Freyberg VC, Soldier of Two Nations Juliet Rowe: Pauline O’Regan, Aunts and Windmills; May Davis, May Elric Hooper: …
Disillusionment and disapprobation, Rod Alley
Changes? The 1990 Election Colin James and Alan McRobie Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990, $24.95 Publication of one of the first books on the 1990 election gives Rod Alley an opportunity to question what he calls our ‘system of electoral…
Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Colin James, Issue 1, Roderic Alley
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Moments of recognition, Lauris Edmond
Speaking to Miranda Caroline Macdonald Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Even in the present increasingly sophisticated field of writing for young adults, Caroline Macdonald is something of a phenomenon. Her first book won the prestigious Esther Glen Medal, and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, Caroline Macdonald, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 1, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Recent New Zealand Poetry, Charles Croot:
Cabin Fever Anne French Auckland University Press, 1990, $15.95 Park Island Leonard Lambert John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $18.95 Jazz Waists Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, 1990, $16.95 Man with a Child’s Violin Gregory O’Brien Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1990, $14.55 What’s…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Caxton Press, Charles Croot, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 1, John McIndoe, Leonard Lambert, Robert Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Dirty washing, Bruce Stewart
Once Were Warriors Alan Duff Tandem, Auckland, 1990, $35 (paperback $19.95) At last a Maori writer has managed to hang out all the dirty Maori washing with some kind of dignity and at the same time place the blame where…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Autumn 1991, Bruce Stewart, Issue 1, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Can you believe what they say? New novels and recent history, John Needham:
Besides Myself Russell Haley Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Night at the Embassy Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, 1990, $24.95 Newlands Gary Langford Penguin, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Like a lot of middle-aged men, Midge, the out-of-work hero-narrator of Russell Haley’s latest…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Elizabeth Smither, Gary Langford, Issue 1, John Needham, Penguin, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Scorching scrutiny, Roger Robinson
The Burning Boy Maurice Gee Viking, Auckland, 1990, $39.95 The Burning Boy does for Nelson what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York. It submits, that is, a community to scorching scrutiny. It constructs a narrative form exactly appropriate…
Stuck in the middle – or the New Zealand publishing scene observed, Iain Sharp
Posted in Comment