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Issue 45 | October 2000
Volume 10 | Number 4 | Issue 45 | October 2000 Vincent O’Sullivan: Michael King, Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame Christopher Harris: “Unflagging efforts” (poem) Editorial Correspondence John O’Connor: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Gallipoli &…
Poem – Brian Turner
Thinking of you I found a note you’d written to me too many years ago. You said Good luck whatever you choose to do and, later, It makes no sense to me when referring to something someone else had…
A sense of completeness, John O’Connor
Gallipoli & Other Poems Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877159 08 5 In 1971 I wandered into a Christchurch bookshop and asked for the poems of Ezra “Pond”. I was doing UE at night tech; someone…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, John O’Connor, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Stead among the Romans, John Davidson
The Right Thing C K Stead Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 221 9 On the dust jacket of his 1972 collection Crossing the Bar can be read the words: “C K Stead is not a prolific poet; …
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, C K Stead, Issue 45, John Davidson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Less than the bare facts, Jane Tolerton
Freda Stark: Her Extraordinary Life Dianne Haworth and Diane Miller HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1 86950 352 X The dramatic moment of Freda Stark: Her Extraordinary Life comes at the end of the second chapter when Thelma, Freda’s friend and lover,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Diane Miller, Dianne Haworth, Freda Stark, Issue 45, Jane Tolerton
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Great expectations, John McCrystal
The Dream of Nikau Jam Peter Hawes Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 421 7 The Craymore Affair Kevin Ireland Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 426 8 One of the great fears among actors is being typecast, bound up in the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, John McCrystal, Kevin Ireland, Peter Hawes, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Patchwork, Deborah Montgomerie
Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Bronwyn Labrum Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 185 9 Fragments bills itself as a step towards a Brave New World of sophisticated histories of New Zealand life,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Bronwyn Dalley, Bronwyn Labrum, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 45
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sporting chances, Russell Marshall
Sport, Society and Culture ed Brad Patterson Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, $24.95, ISBN 0 473 06403 0 It is extraordinary, to say the least, that sport and academe in New Zealand have squared off against each…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Brad Patterson, Issue 45, Russell Marshall, Stout Research Centre
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Editorial – Issue 45
Annus mirabilis for poetry This issue includes reviews of collections by five of our major poets – Lauris Edmond, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, C K Stead, Jenny Bornholdt and Andrew Johnston. While this might seem an unusually generous allocation, in…
Horse whispering, Joan de Hamel
Shadrach Girl Joy Cowley Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130899 0 On my eighth birthday I was given a book from a French friend of my parents. It was beautifully bound in pink, with gold lettering, a French children’s classic…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Joan de Hamel, Joy Cowley, Puffin
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults