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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 &…
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…
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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
Myths and statistics, Bernard Robertson
Crime in New Zealand Greg Newbold Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86469 348 6 This is only the second proper survey and consideration of criminal statistics in New Zealand, the first being Crime and Deviance published in 1992 by the…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
More than kisses, Chris Hobley
Posted Love: New Zealand love letters Sophie Jerram Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 029010 9 In March 1888, James Crooks left Wanganui on the 300-mile walk back to his home in Petone, hoping to pick up odd jobs so as…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Letters – Issue 45
Untwisting Lyotard Peter Munz’s letter and recent review of my jointly authored book with Peter Roberts, University Futures and the Politics of Reform in New Zealand, in the August issue, both suffer from the intemperate criticisms and personal obsessions that…
Pome – Emma Neale
Owl-glass The first time, the eye spies a spy-glass: owl-glass a till now unheard word: thick spectacles, monocle, binoculars to track nocturnal birds? Or a barometer that measures owl-weather? Dusky, silt-blue, cool, without night the feel of night, the…
Revision and revisionism, Philip Temple
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…
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Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A breath of fresh sound, Harvey McQueen
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…
Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Autumn 1999, Harvey McQueen, Issue 45, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review