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Ex cathedra, Paul Morris
A Word in Season: Reflections on Spirituality, Faith and Ethics Richard Randerson Matai House, $19.50, ISBN 9780473136543 The Anglican Church in New Zealand, like the other major denominations, is split between its liberals and conservatives. This division is over how…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Issue 85, Matai House, Paul Morris, Richard Randerson
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Walking with McCahon, Martin Edmond
In this extract from Dark Night, Martin Edmond retraces the steps of Colin McCahon, who, on April 11 1984, went missing in Sydney’s Royal Botanical Gardens and was not found again for 36 hours. I actually made the walk from…
The embodiment of dreams, Brendan O’Brien
The Printing of a Masterpiece Alan Loney Black Pepper, $AUD25.95, ISBN 9781876044589 With so much reading now done on the computer screen, Alan Loney’s new publication arrives to remind us of some of the other qualities we encounter when we…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Autumn 2009, Black Pepper, Brendan O’Brien, Issue 85
Posted in Art, Non-fiction
Posted in Art, Non-fiction
Shooting the south, Stella Ramage
White Silence: Grahame Sydney’s Antarctica Grahame Sydney Viking, $115.00, ISBN 9780670072538 How does the sustained gaze of the landscape painter, obsessively re-imagining the sun-scorched expanses of Central Otago in a million meticulous brushstrokes, adjust to the mechanical snap of a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Grahame Sydney, Issue 85, Stella Ramage, Viking
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
The decent society, John Pagani
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 Margaret Clark (ed) Dunmore Publishing, $37.95, ISBN 9781877399336 I have to confess to having taunted Margaret Clark in the past for her incuriosity. A few years ago she demanded in a newspaper answers and explanations from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 85, John Pagani, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem — Peter Bland
The Gift You love the new land truly you love it you pile up year upon year until belonging happens and before you know it the old land drifts into myth which you visit disguised as a child the…
Poem — Nicholas Reid
Once to the Rocks “Once to the rocks,” said Bill and took a dive as neat and arc-like as a well-cast line. He left no ripple. I blundered behind with belly-flop and splashes, awkwardly. So in his element, smooth…
Movement is all, Paula Green
Magnetic South Sue Wootton Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448232 Spark Emma Neale Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448195 The Propaganda Poster Girl Amy Brown Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735744 The World’s Fastest Flower Charlotte Simmonds Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Amy Brown, Autumn 2009, Charlotte Simmonds, Emma Neale, Issue 85, Paula Green, Steele Roberts, Sue Wootton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
A straight left to the nose, Spiro Zavos
From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The Story Of Tom Heeney Lydia Monin Hodder Moa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711252 You play rugby and a host of other sports that have a greater or lesser degree of body contact in them. But you…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Hodder Moa, Issue 85, Lydia Monin, Spiro Zavos, Tom Heeney
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Steadfast, Dougal McNeill
Collected Poems 1951-2006 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404185 The American critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the early 1960s of his experience teaching what we would now call modernist literature, felt unsettled by the ease with which…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, C K Stead, Dougal McNeill, Issue 85
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review