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Issue 69 | August 2005
Volume 15 | Number 13| Issue 69 | August 2005 Sue McCauley: Owen Marshall, Watch of Gryphons and Other Stories; Owen Marshall, Occasional: 50 Poems Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway: “Miffed, maltreated and murderous” (editorial) Philip Temple: J M…
Cantankerous, laconic and weird, Margot Schwass
Getting Away With It Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270792 Butler’s Ringlet Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019198 A Man Who Eats The Heart Josh Greenberg Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734824 Together, these three novels suggest that the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Hazard Press, Issue 69, Josh Greenberg, Kevin Ireland, Laurence Fearnley, Margot Schwass, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Loving nature to death, Kirstie Ross
The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism Margaret McClure Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403193 Our Islands, Our Selves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand David Young University of Otago Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877276944 Tourism and conservation are the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, David Young, Issue 69, Kirstie Ross, Margaret McClure, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Roar of the greasepaint, Frances Edmond
Downstage Upfront John Smythe Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734891 In Downstage’s first year, 1964, I saw the Beatles in the Wellington Town Hall and screamed and cried along with thousands of other teenagers – girls mostly. The next year…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Frances Edmond, Issue 69, John Smythe, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Walks on the wild side, Lynn Freeman
Grooves of Glory Alan Brunton Bumper Books, $30, ISBN 095822255X Cherish Ken Duncum Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 084673493X “This whole trip is like reading a cartoon strip, pictures you can’t understand without a caption.” Alan Brunton’s poetry is a…
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
Telling it like it was, Joan Rosier-Jones
Posted in Comment