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Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
On men of a certain age, John Horrocks
The Conch Trumpet David Eggleton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578939 Wonky Optics Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739810 Half Dark Harry Ricketts Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739841 Feeding the Birds Kevin Ireland Steele Roberts, $20.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Geoff Cochrane, Harry Ricketts, Issue 110, John Horrocks, Kevin Ireland, Otago University Press, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Pressing on, David Eggleton
On Song: Stories behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics Simon Sweetman Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143568162 Any anthology is a work of exclusion, constructed to emphasise or establish a particular narrative. In the case of anthologist Simon Sweetman’s On Song: Stories…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Simon Sweetman, Winter 2013
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Draft 17 anyone? David Eggleton
Dunedin Soundings: Place and Performance Dan Bendrups and Graeme Downes (eds) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978 877578229 With the possible exception of Chris Knox, the “Dunedin Sound” was never driven by charismatic personalities. Instead, it consisted of a…
Tagged with: Dan Bendrups, David Eggleton, Graeme Downes, Issue 98, Otago University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Strip-mines and elegies, Mark Houlahan
Slip Stream Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404628 Crumple Vivienne Plumb Seraph Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473177171 Time of the Icebergs David Eggleton Otago University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781877578021 The Radio Room Cilla McQueen Otago University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, Issue 95, Mark Houlahan, Otago University Press, Paula Green, Seraph Press, Spring 2011, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A rather slippery flower, David Eggleton
The Frangipani is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand Karen Stevenson Huia, $60.00, ISBN 976189693251 “The Frangipani is Dead” is a curious phrase to use as a title for a survey of contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand. Actually,…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Huia, Issue 88, Karen Stevenson, Summer 2009
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – David Eggleton
Christchurch Gothic Summer’s Avon spelt the names of atua in green, and through trees sun shafts dug at dappled lawns, as if to unearth a circuit-board of worm-holes, the universe beneath the labyrinth, the silent presence of mountain shingle…
Slow exposure, Alan Knowles
Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $59.99, ISBN 1877333549 A history of New Zealand through photography: at long last the poor cousin of art and literature has crawled out from the black…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Insolent bassists and mad drummers, Mark Amery
Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333069 I have a confession to make. I’m not much of a reader – at least not in the always-head-in-a-novel kind of a…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 66, Mark Amery, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
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