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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…
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…
Moments of magic, Harry Ricketts
Selected Poems Basil Dowling Global Vision, $34.95, ISBN 3950186204 “Magic is what I’m after,” observes Basil Dowling in “The Aim of Art” from his 1973 collection The Unreturning Native and Other Poems. It is the kind of claim made by…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Basil Dowling, Global Vision, Harry Ricketts, Issue 69
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Strikes against the head, Chris Laidlaw
Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854-2004 ed Greg Ryan University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276979 It was Voltaire, who, not without a dash of cynicism, declared that all history is but myth that time has rendered…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Chris Laidlaw, Greg Ryan, Issue 69, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Enduring love, Jane Westaway
Between the Lives: Partners in Art ed Deborah Shepard Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 186940339 The arresting Marti Friedlander photograph on the cover of Deborah Shepard’s Between the Lives shows the late Pat Hanly, painter, and Gil Hanly, photographer, side…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, Deborah Shepard, Issue 69, Jane Westaway
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Unpick this, Renée
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s Rosemary McLeod HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869505093 Rosemary McLeod is an intelligent, witty and acerbic columnist who does us the favour of saying the things we’d like to say out loud, if…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, HarperCollins, Issue 69, Renée, Rosemary McLeod
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review