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Hooked on wonder and mystery, Damian Skinner
Shane Cotton ed Lara Strongman City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864734697 Jeffrey Harris Justin Paton Victoria University Press and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $69.95, ISBN 0864734867 Engravings on Wood by Leo Bensemann ed Peter Simpson Holloway…
A magic lantern show, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Hellhole of the Pacific Richard Wolfe Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019872 Kororareka in the Bay of Islands in some ways resembles Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. The two tiny townships were settings for power plays by various groups for a few brief…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Issue 69, Penguin, Richard Wolfe, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
In the beginning was the word, Nelson Wattie
The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ed Tony Deverson and Graeme Kennedy Oxford University Press, $130, ISBN 0195584511 Lexicographers are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication, on 15 April 1755, of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, the book that made their profession…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Graeme Kennedy, Issue 69, Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, Tony Deverson
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Facing off, Norman Bilbrough
This Thing in the Mirror: Self Portraits by New Zealand Artists Claire Finlayson Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333182 This Thing in the Mirror has a foreword by television presenter John Campbell, and the opening statement, “This is a book…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Claire Finlayson, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 69, Norman Bilbrough
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Down by the river, Charlotte Yates
How to Listen to Pop Music Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250960 Nick Bollinger is well known as a music reviewer or, perhaps the weightier epithet, rock journalist. He has worked in print media since 1988 for, among others,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Awa Press, Charlotte Yates, Issue 69, Nick Bollinger
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
The operative words, Rae McGregor
Writing at the Edge of the Universe ed Mark Williams Canterbury University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877257311 I wonder if Patrick Evans realised, when he wrote that salty article about students from Bill Manhire’s Victoria University creative writing programme (New Zealand…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Canterbury University Press, Issue 69, Mark Williams, Rae McGregor
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Proclaiming to the barbarians, Philip Temple
The Mediator: A Life of Richard Taylor 1805-1873 J M R Owens Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734646 Richard Taylor was one of the more effective and influential of Church Missionary Society (CMS) workers during that golden age for missionaries,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Issue 69, J M R Owens, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Sacred and profane, John Horrocks
The Red Tram C K Stead Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869403304 The Merino Princess Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734921 Learning to Lie Together Diane Brown Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 1869621093 Trams. For me the tram is part…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, Bernadette Hall, C K Stead, Diane Brown, Godwit, Issue 69, John Horrocks, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Editorial — Issue 69
Miffed, maltreated and murderous In our last editorial we looked at reviewing from the relatively unimpassioned viewpoint of what’s good for New Zealand writing, reviewers and readers. But what, to misapply Freud, do authors want? The question is nowhere near…
Telling it like it was, Joan Rosier-Jones
Posted in Comment