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With more to be said, Alan Riach
Atua Wera Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 157 3 A cynical critic, if asked whether Atua Wera should be described as Kendrick Smithyman’s masterpiece and one of New Zealand’s major poems, might reply like the Frenchman…
Tagged with: Alan Riach, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1997, Issue 29, Kendrick Smithyman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
And so what? Jane Stafford
Blue Blood Stevan Eldred-Grigg Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26484 1 It is not often that literary affairs are featured on TV1’s Holmes Show but Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s novel Blue Blood was the focus of a lively if rather inconclusive discussion…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Issue 29, Jane Stafford, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A chance for scrutiny missed, Tom Brooking
Land and Water: Water and Soil Conservation and Central Government in New Zealand 1941-1988 Michael Roche Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $24.95, ISBN 0 477 05691 1 Visiting American academics are intrigued by the over-confident manner with which New…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 29, Michael Roche, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Re-charting our child myth, Heather Murray
Boy Overboard by Peter Wells Vintage New Zealand, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 319 9 Boy Overboard is a great novel. It is a work which will resonate for many a year, and become as important a marker of growing up…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Heather Murray, Issue 29, Peter Wells, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Celts, Oracles and crystals, Paul Morris
Celebrating the Southern Seasons: Rituals for Aotearoa Juliet Batten Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 90884 54 0 The Oracle Speaks: Breakthroughs for Humanity The Oracle Oracle Publications, $29.95, ISBN 0 9648443 0 3 Our experience is increasingly shaped by a…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Issue 29, Juliet Batten, Oracle Publications, Paul Morris, Tandem Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
After Adorno, John Newton
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism & the Social Context eds Michael Peters, Wayne Hope, James Marshall and Steven Webster Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86469 233 1 Our culture’s aversion to theory is a theme which has been rehearsed numerous times. My…
Tagged with: Autumn 1997, Dunmore Press, Issue 29, James Marshall, John Newton, Michael Peters, Steven Webster, Wayne Hope
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Poem – Jan Hutchison
Languages for Aniwaniwa, aged 16 months When I come to this place past the yellow irises and red harakeke flowers, the current of two languages pulls me through your gate. Kia ora! Kei te pehea koe? my daughter asks. Hullo!…
Finding space
We go to considerable lengths to review as many as practicable of the books published each year. However, for several reasons we cannot review all of them. The foremost reason is that we must be able to justify the review…
Obscurity v the life principle, Kim Worthington
Envoy Alan Loney and Mark Wills Puriri Press, $28.00, ISBN 0 908943 13 x On Virgin Skin Gay Linden Sandpiper Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 473 04187 1 Before the Divorce We Go to Disneyland Diane Brown Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Autumn 1997, Diane Brown, Elizabeth Crayford, Gay Linden, Graphic Press, Issue 29, J C Sturm, Mark Wills, Puriri Press, Sandpiper Press, Steele Roberts, Tandem Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 29
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