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Issue 57 | March 2003
Volume 13 | Number 1 | Issue 57 | March 2003 Joan de Hamel: Sandy McKay, Recycled and My Dad the All Black; Vince Ford, The Dare Club; Jan Thorburn, Stranded; Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie Editorial A farewell Letters…
Nudging the unsuitable, Cilla McQueen
How To Make A Million Emma Neale Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 18692100X The Unfortunate Singer Rachel Bush Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734360 My reading’s re-creation, via language, of another poet’s perceptions, thoughts, aural sensibility and verbal skill, allows me a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cilla McQueen, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 57, Rachel Bush, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Against cupidity, Ian Johnstone
Five Holocausts Derek J Wilson Steele Roberts, $59.95, ISBN 1877228419 It’s been a drawn-out business preparing this review. For the first week after the great volume (472 pages long) bumped through the letterbox, it sat on the window sill, glowering…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Derek J Wilson, Ian Johnstone, Issue 57, Steele Roberts
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
Far and near: some thoughts on the poetry of Bill Sewell, Brian Turner
Fair-minded people like to see others given their due. That has been my experience, although I’ve often wondered about just what percentage of such fair-mindeds there are, especially in literary circles. Most writers I know have a list of other…
The gods gathering, John Dickson
Valparaiso Bob Orr Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402820 Human Scale Tony Beyer Sudden Valley Press, $16.95, ISBN 0958368481 The first time I read these two books, I read fast to find out whether I would want to read them…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2002, Bob Orr, Issue 57, John Dickson, Sudden Valley Press, Tony Beyer
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 57
Poetry reviewing and the art of dullness Reviewing poetry is hard, harder probably than any other kind of reviewing. With fiction, there are (usually) characters and a plot to provide a starting point. With history, ecology, or economics, there are…
Man in the dock, Lynley Hood
The Trials of Eric Mareo Charles Ferrall & Rebecca Ellis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734328 Some crimes touch a collective nerve, trigger a collective outrage. The high-pitched intensity of the debate – the foam-flecked arguments, the inflammatory media stories,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Charles Ferrall, Issue 57, Rebecca Ellis, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Jessica Le Bas
driving back from Takaka she says I will have to get a tricky one this time cause you are a smarty-pants she looks out the window g for grass h for hills t for trees r for river I will…
Holding the baby, Paula Boock
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Huia Publishers, Issue 57, Paula Boock, Renée
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Wicketkeeping religion, Neville Emslie
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