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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 &…
“Better to tell it all”, Vincent O’Sullivan
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Janet Frame, Michael King, Viking, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Climbing Mount Curnow, Hugh Roberts
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Department of English, Hugh Roberts, Issue 45, University of Otago
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Thank God for Harvey, Helen Beaglehole
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…
Tagged with: Anne Mulcock, Autumn 1999, Bookcaster Press, Flamingo, Gwyneth Perry, Hazard Press, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 45, Jennifer Maxwell, Quoin Press, Sandi Hall, Spinifex, Vonnie Alexander
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“The book? This is people.” Jane Stafford
Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary Carole Ferrier Melbourne University Press, $71.95, ISBN 0 522 84847 8 Faced with the duty of celebrating the new millennium adequately, most New Zealanders saw the challenge in terms of geographical location. Where to be…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Carole Ferrier, Issue 45, Jane Stafford, Jean Devanny, Melbourne University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
An indispensable resource, Alan Wells
Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance Mervyn McLean Auckland University Press, $79.95, ISBN 1 86940 212 X A companion volume to the same author’s Maori Music 1996: reviewed in our March 1998 issue), Mervyn McLean’s Weavers of Song…
Tagged with: Alan Wells, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Mervyn McLean
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Refreshing the text, Jan Cronin
Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield, & Hyde Mary Paul Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 71 X, One of the many problems of Mary Paul’s Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Jan Cronin, Jane Mander, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Paul, Otago University Press, Robin Hyde
Posted in Gender, Literature, Review
Posted in Gender, Literature, Review
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…
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