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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…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Dunmore Publishing, Helena Catt, Issue 12, Raymond Miller, Stephen Levine
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A frightening, different creativity, Anne French
The Inward Sun: Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame Elizabeth Alley (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 Perhaps the worst fate a writer can suffer is to have their life talked about while their work is ignored. If…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 1994, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elizabeth Alley, Issue 12, Janet Frame
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Julie Leibrich
The Jug Almost an indecent act. Indelicate at least. Yet as I wash away three hundred years of grime I speed through light years of combustion. Past the wars, the Regency and all the Georges strung in line to…
Here and now, Tom Beard
Scenes from a Small City Lauris Edmond, Daphne Brassell Associates, $24.95 Lauris Edmond’s poems have always conveyed a strong sense of time and place, so it is no surprise that in a volume based around life in Wellington the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Daphne Brassell Associates, Issue 12, Lauris Edmond, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Removing the adult voice, Kathryn Walls
Baker’s Dozen Tom Bradley, HarperCollins, $12.95 Saved by Ryan Kane Pauline Cartwright, Ashton Scholastic, $7.95 The Secret of Boomer Lake Ken Catran, HarperCollins, $10.95 The Breakdown Day Dorothy Butler, Ashton Scholastic, $12.95 Tom Bradley’s Baker’s Dozen is a collection of…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Autumn 1994, Dorothy Butler, HarperCollins, Issue 12, Ken Catran, Pauline Cartwright, Tom Bradley
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Composed of small moments, Rod McGregor
The Miserables Damien Wilkins, Victoria University Press, 1993, $24.95 This, Damien Wilkins’s first novel, seems a natural extension of his earlier stories and poems. It is a bildungsroman of a very modernistic sort, tightly written, concise in scope but large…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Damien Wilkins, Issue 12, Rod McGregor, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The same old plot, Colleen Reilly
Like You, Really Kate Flannery, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep Vivienne Plumb, Otago University Press, $24.95 Best Friends Elspeth Sandys, David Ling, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson, Otago University…
Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12, Kate Flannery, Otago University Press, Penguin Books, Stephanie Johnson, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review