Laura’s Poems Laura Ranger, Godwit Publishing, $12.95 All three of us know Laura Ranger as a friend and we all agree on two things – she is a very nice person and a brilliant poet. She has endless ideas for…
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Making words explode, Philippa, Octavia and Laura Horgan
Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Laura Horgan, Laura Ranger, Octavia Horgan, Philippa Horgan, Winter 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The art of complex simplicities, Jane Stafford
How We Met Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press, $19.95 Simplicity in writing – as in life – is a very complicated matter, difficult to achieve and uncertain in its effect. Simplicity in poetry is usually achieved by sacrificing content and…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Jane Stafford, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press, Winter 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Pandora’s envelope: it’s all about power, Bill Oliver
Crown Proposals for the Settlement of Treaty of Waitangi Claims Hon Douglas Graham, Department of Justice Though the text of the Crown Proposals is a good deal less euphoric in tone than the hype which accompanied their release in December,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Bill Oliver, Department of Justice, Hon Douglas Graham, Issue 17
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem — Bill Manhire
Dynamically adaptive, Sir Tipene O’Regan
Painted Histories: Early Maori figurative painting Roger Neich, Auckland University Press, $79.95 In the late 1960s I slept for the first time in the meeting house Te-Poho-o-Hinekura at Te Kuha near Lake Waikaremoana. I was astonished by the faded blue…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Roger Neich, Sir Tipene O'Regan
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 17
The blinds drawn, Hamish Keith
Painted Histories: Early Maori figurative painting Roger Neich, Auckland University Press, $79.95 One April morning in 1920 the Maori King Te Rata, his kaumatua, a greeting party and 1000 or so Waikato, gathered on the platform at Ngaruawahia railway station…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Hamish Keith, Issue 17, Roger Neich, Winter 1995
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Jeanette Stace
A book reader; what else? Laura Kroetsch
The Dominion of Signs Nick Perry, Auckland University Press, $34.95 A few weeks ago a debate appeared in the Times Higher Education Supplement which Colin MacCabe (head of research and education at the British Film Institute) and Graham McCann (a…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Laura Kroetsch, Nick Perry, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Apology to C K Stead
C K Stead has taken exception to two aspects of a review of The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories in our issue of March 1994. If Roger Robinson’s review gave readers the impression that the absence of four…
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