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Letters — Issue 12
Dear Editor I am sorry that Roger Hall was upset by a review of Maurice Gee’s Going West which let the cat out of the bag, but pleased, for him, that he had already read the book and was not…
Editorial — Issue 12
Colin James: Short and suite “The association of short stories with New Zealand writing is as axiomatic and as much of a cultural cliché as pavlova with kiwifruit.” So Lydia Wevers begins a discussion of “The short New Zealand story”…
Noticeboard, March 1994: Mahy Lecture award
Betty Gilderdale has won the 1994 Margaret Mahy lecture award, offered annually by the New Zealand Children’s Book Foundation for a distinguished and significant contribution to children’s literature, publishing or literacy. Betty Gilderdale is a foundation member of the Children’s…
Issue 12 Autumn 1994
Editorial Colin James: “Short and suite” Letters Lydia Wevers: Patricia Grace, The Sky People and Other Stories; Owen Marshall, The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories; Fiona Kidman, The Foreign Woman; Stephanie Johnson, All the Tenderness Left in the…
Right up there with Frame and McCahon, John Roberts
Jane Campion (dir), The Piano At irregular, generally long, intervals, works of great force emerge from the ruck of creative aspiration. They mark a new manifestation of the power inherent in different forms of art. They challenge comfortable assumptions…
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Objects that look like books, Brian Easton
Performance Without Profit: The Voluntary Welfare Sector in New Zealand Gary Hawke and David Robinson (eds), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 Women and Taxation Claudia Scott (ed), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 From Birth to Death III Judith Davey, Institute…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Brian Easton, Claudia Scott, David Robinson, Gary Hawke, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 12, Judith Davey
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Part of the democratic pantomime: An edited transcript of the 1993 Shelley Lecture, Margaret Mahy
Some years ago I wrote a children’s story called A Work of Art in which a woman made a particularly beautiful cake. Two gentlemen, proprietors of an inner-city art gallery, see it through the window, and ask if they may…
Digging through the permafrost, Stephen Levine
Season of Discontent: By-elections and the Bolger Government Raymond Miller and Helena Catt, Dunmore Publishing, 1993, $29.95 The “season of discontent” to which this book refers began within weeks of National’s victory in October 1990. When the Bolger Government found…
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Punditry and punchups: Writers and Readers Week at the Wellington Festival, Jane Stafford
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