Five Strings
Apirana Taylor
Anahera Press, $35.00,
ISBN 9780473389482
Iceland
Dominic Hoey
Steele Roberts, $35.00,
ISBN 978094749343I
It’s that time of the three-yearly cycle again. A billboard has gone up near my house promoting the political party that has, for the last couple of terms, been promising us a brighter future. It claims this party is “Delivering for New Zealanders” – which is true, so long as you don’t read it as a claim that it is delivering for all New Zealanders. And, as for the brighter future, well, there is a significant number of people in New Zealand for whom the future can only be brighter, given how bleak their present is.
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