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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 &…
Mr Explorer Douglas John Pascoe’s New Zealand classic revised by Graham Langton Canterbury University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 908812 95 7 For bushmen, trampers and mountaineers, the exploits and writings of 19th century explorer Charlie Douglas have become folkloric. Enduring…
Birds of Europe Andrew Johnston Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 386 0 These Days Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 385 2 Delacroix remarked that to be a poet when one is twenty is…
Allons Enfants Linda Burgess Longacre Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877135 43 7 Seasons in Tuscany Allan Parker Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 029441 4 Travel writing’s a fairly new genre for New Zealanders. James MeNeish did well with Sicily; Jean…
Being a writer requires three essentials. In rough proportion they are 90% determination (in other words, hard work), 8% talent (which includes imagination), and 2% luck. I suspect that those who think that creative writing classes are pointless would see…
Late Song Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 235 9 The obsequies are over, the elegies written, and we reluctantly begin to think of Wellington without her. Seven months after a death that caused more public grief…
Just Looking, Thanks David Hill Penguin, $14.95, ISBN 0 14 130681 5 Time Out David Hill Mallinson Rendell, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 43 4 Boots ‘n’ All David Hill Scholastic, $11.95, ISBN 1 86943 395 5 Impact David Hill Penguin,…
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Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame Michael King Viking, $49.95, ISBN 0 670 89371 4 Penguin Books knew they were onto what commerce knows as “a good thing” when they took on the publication they now…
Journal of New Zealand Literature 15 Department of English, University of Otago, $20.00, ISSN 0112 1227 In 1996, the Association of New Zealand Literature held a conference with the announced theme of “Curnow, Caxton, and the Canon”. The Journal of…
Window Licking in the City of Love Jennifer Maxwell Flamingo, $24.95, ISBN 4 86950 348 X Table at Sunset Lodge Vonnie Alexander Quoin Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877163 25 2 Butterfly Mind Gwyneth Perry Bookcaster Press, $20.00, ISBN 0 473…
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