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Issue 65 | October 2004
Volume 14 | Number 4 | Issue 65 | October 2004 Tony Simpson: Ian McGibbon, New Zealand and the Second World War; Megan Hutching (ed), A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign; Brendan Judd, The…
A walk on the wild side, Cilla McQueen
Wild Anne French Auckland University Press, $31.95, ISBN 186940310X Travel and other compulsions Heather McPherson Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $18.00, ISBN 1869420349 Catullus for Children Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869403088 Bluff’s main street was recently relieved…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne French, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2004, Cilla McQueen, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Heather McPherson, Issue 65
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Dancing to his own tune, Jane Westaway
Ghost dance Douglas Wright Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019031 It’s tempting, when looking to praise a good book from someone who has made their mark in another sphere, to damn them with the feint praise of “natural writer”. As if their…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Douglas Wright, Issue 65, Jane Westaway, Penguin
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The unexpected past, Jenny Robin Jones
What Happen Then, Mr Bones? Charlotte Randall Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019171 With her three previous novels, Dead Sea Fruit, The Curative and Within the Kiss, Charlotte Randall has developed a voice clearly identifiable in New Zealand literature. In What Happen…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Charlotte Randall, Issue 65, Jenny Robin Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
If it’s claggy, it must be Wellington, Kim Griggs
Auckland: The city in literature ed Witi Ihimaera Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988362 Dunedin: The city in literature ed Christine Johnston Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988451 Christchurch: The city in literature ed Anna Rogers Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988427 Wellington:…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2004, Christine Johnston, Exisle Publishing, Issue 65, Kate Camp, Kim Griggs, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Rebuilding the wharenui, Simone Drichel
Whanau II Witi Ihimaera Reed, $29.99, ISBN 079008939 For someone who describes himself as “a person who always reflected what other people wanted”, Witi Ihimaera has made an impressive career out of doing the exact opposite. Once every decade or…
Our biggest brashest city, Diane Brown
Auckland before the Harbour Bridge Graham Stewart Grantham House, $69.95, ISBN 1869340868. Almighty Auckland? ed Ian Carter, David Craig and Steve Matthewman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694520 History is big these days but it wasn’t when I was young. My…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, David Craig, Diane Brown, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Graham Stewart, Grantham House, Ian Carter, Issue 65, Steve Matthewman
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
We were just 17, if you know what I mean, Rosemary McLeod
Eight Days a Week: The Beatles’ Tour of New Zealand 1964 Graham Hutchins Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988559 Big Smoke: New Zealand City People in the ’60s and ’70s John Daley Random House, $39.95, ISBN 1869621085 Says Graham Hutchins, “Beatlemania…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Exisle Publishing, Graham Hutchins, Issue 65, John Daley, Random House, Rosemary McLeod
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Across the great divide, Harvey McQueen
Apes Road: Poems Since 1997 Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877270245 Working Voices John O’Connor & Eric Mould Hallard Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864770480 In his essay “The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground”, Australian Les Murray explores a myth: We tend nowadays…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Eric Mould, Hallard Press, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, Issue 65, John O’Connor, Rob Jackaman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review