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Issue 53 | June 2002

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Volume 12 | Number 2 | Issue 53 | June 2002 Anne French: Lauris Edmond, An Autobiography; Selected Poems 1975-2000 Editorial Peter Wells: Dennis McEldowney, The World Regained; Vanya Lowry, From the Wisteria Bush Louise White: “Rituals” (poem) Nicholas…

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Antipodean apparatchik, Barry Gustafson

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser Michael Bassett and Michael King Penguin Books, $49.95, ISBN 0140297936 The late Professor John Roberts once told me a story about his father “Big Jim” Roberts, nicknamed “the uncrowned King of…

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More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…

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Werewolf beneath the tweed, Barbara Else

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Time for a Killing Shonagh Koea Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414659 Over the last few years, I’ve declined invitations to review New Zealand books for two reasons. First, the local world of writing and publishing is very small. If you don’t…

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More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…

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Poem – Jo Thorpe

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Tate Modern (found in Time magazine) As power stations go, Bankside was a looker a hulking lunker with tapering chimney and squat symmetry enhanced by groups of windows striping its entire height. Also, it has size – which modern…

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Rough around the edges, Phil Kawana

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Camilla Vanilla Nick Hyde Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414519 The Gospel @ccording to Cole Rhonda Bartle Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 0908561830 A good cover should draw you towards a book, and the covers of both these novels do just that. The…

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Bugger the box-office, Laurie Atkinson

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Little Theatre: golden years of the New Zealand stage Glyn Strange Clerestory Press, $45.00, ISBN 0958370699 A Theatre in the House: The Careys’ Globe Rosalie Carey Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877133663 If British theatre, as Richard Eyre and Nicholas…

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Robber barons, worker rebels, Gavin McLean

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

British Capital, Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront 1915-1951 Anna Green Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187713399X A few weeks ago, a retired port agency manager asked me who was “this Anna Green lady” and did I know anything…

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Buried stories, Jane Tolerton

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Land Girls: In a man’s world Dianne Bardsley Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877133949 The Women’s War: New Zealand Women 1939-45 Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402448 Living in the 20th Century: New Zealand History in Photographs…

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Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, War