For Someone I Love – A Collection of Writing Arapera Blank Anton Blank Ltd, $40.00, ISBN 9780473299187 For Someone I Love is aptly titled, for the immediate impression is of the immense devotion Arapera and Pius Blank had to each…
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Poetical philosophies, John Dennison
Song of the Ghost in the Machine Roger Horrocks Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739858 Shaggy Magpie Songs Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869408411 Generation Kitchen Richard Reeve Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578922 Roger Horrocks’s Song of…
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“The messy abundance”, Lydia Wevers
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body Tony Ballantyne Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408268 Tony Ballantyne is famous throughout the world of imperial and colonial history for his invention of the very useful term…
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Māori and Crown relationships Rewa Morgan
Kūpapa – The Bitter Legacy of Māori Alliances with the Crown Ron Crosby Penguin Random House, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573111 Recently, we as a nation have experienced more commemoration and public history about New Zealand’s military history than ever before. We…
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A shadowy part of the country’s history, Paul Moon
From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s Scots Migrants 1840-1920 Rebecca Lenihan Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578793 Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910 Angela McCarthy Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781927322000 The 12th century; 1642; 1769. These are…
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Poem – Nick Ascroft
Stodge, serious analysis and spicy bits, Bryan Gould
Moments of Truth: The New Zealand General Election of 2014 Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781776560493 The 2014 general election campaign was, on the face of it, one of the most dramatic of modern…
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The thing-ness of history, Cherie Lacey
The Lives of Colonial Objects Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds) Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781927322024 The Lives of Colonial Objects seeks to tell the history, or rather a number of histories, of New Zealand’s colonial past…
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Issue 113 | Autumn 2016
2 Editorial
Letter
Tim Upperton: “The Bare Hook” (poem)
3 David Hill: Michael Brown and Mat Tait, The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales From New Zealand
4 Abby Loader and Abby Simpson: Whiti Hereaka, Bugs
Lucy Prestidge: Janet Frame, To the Is-Land
5 Emma Martin: Kate De Goldi, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle
6 Kathryn Walls: Joy Cowley, The Bakehouse; Barbara Else, The Knot Impossible: A Tale of Fontania; Stacy Gregg, The Girl Who Rode the Wind
7 Sarah Ross: Charlotte Grimshaw, Starlight Peninsula
8 Lloyd Jones: Bill Manhire, The Stories of Bill Manhire
9 Ingrid Horrocks: Martin Edmond, The Dreaming Land
10 Tina Shaw: Bianca Zander, The Predictions ; Sue Orr, The Party Line
11 Bryan Gould: Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine (eds), Moments of Truth: The New Zealand General Election of 2014
12 Ann Beaglehole: Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant (Michael Hall photographer), Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers Tell Their Stories
Nick Ascroft: “Five Limericks on Grief” (poem)
13 Paul Moon: Rebecca Lenihan, From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand Scots Migrants 1840-1920; Angela McCarthy, Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910
14 Rewa Morgan: Ron Crosby, Kūpapa – The Bitter Legacy of Māori Alliances with the Crown
15 Lydia Wevers: Tony Ballantyne, Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body
16 Cherie Lacey: Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds), The Lives of Colonial Objects
17 Tina Makereti: Arapera Blank, For Someone I Love – A Collection of Writing
18 John Dennison: Roger Horrocks, Song of the Ghost in the Machine; Murray Edmond, Shaggy Magpie Songs; Richard Reeve, Generation Kitchen
19 Spiro Zavos: Steve Williams with Michael Donaldson, Out of the Rough
20 Roger Robinson: Norman Harris (obituary)
21 Chris Else: Jerome Kaino, Jerome Kaino: My Story; Brando Yelavich, Wildboy; Lance O’Sullivan, The Good Doctor; Simon Grigg, How Bizarre; Laurence Fearnley, Lydia Bradey: Going Up is Easy
22 Chris Szekely: Donald Jackson Kerr, Hocken: Prince of Collectors
23 Bookshelf
24 Christina Stachurski: Alison Parr, Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past; Fiona Farrell, A Villa at the End of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City; Joe Bennett, King Rich
25 Elizabeth Crayford: David Hood, The Rhetoric and the Reality: New Zealand Schools and Schooling in the 21st Century
26 Wystan Curnow: Len Lye with Roger Horrocks, Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye
27 Kathryn Carmody: “Making the Pieces Fit” (comment)
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