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Wrenching love, Harry Ricketts
Boundaries: People and Places of Central Otago Brian Turner (Steve Calveley photographer) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775538318 Early in this composite prose-poetry miscellany about Central Otago, Brian Turner quotes with approval from the English poet Edward Thomas’s “The Mountain Chapel”: “When…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 118, Steve Calveley, Winter 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Consecrated ground, Ian Lochhead
Historic Churches: A Guide to Over 60 Early New Zealand Churches Linda Burgess (Robert Burgess photographer) Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775537335 Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design Bill McKay (Jane Ussher photographer) Godwit, $85.00, ISBN 9781775538363 One of…
Tagged with: Bill McKay, Godwit, Ian Lochhead, Issue 114, Jane Ussher, Linda Burgess, Random House, Robert Burgess, Winter 2016
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
eSensual readings, Murray Bramwell
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe and Harry Ricketts (eds) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775534594 So what makes poems essential? In their introduction to this most appealing collection, the three editors mull over the problem…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 109, James Norcliffe, Murray Bramwell, Siobhan Harvey
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Picking winners, Mark Stocker
Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $65.00, ISBN 9780987668844 Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South Christopher Johnstone Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781775530114 Promoting Prosperity: The…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Christopher Johnstone, Craig Potton Publishing, Gary Stewart, Godwit, Issue 105, Jill Trevelyan, Mark Stocker, Peter Alsop, Peter McLeavey, Te Papa Press
Posted in Art, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
More pork and potatoes, anyone? John O’Leary
Poenamo Revisited John Logan Campbell (essay and notes by R C J Stone) Godwit, $60.00, ISBN 9781869797980 Most New Zealanders – even those living south of the Bombay Hills – have heard of John Logan Campbell, the Father of Auckland,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Godwit, Issue 101, John Logan Campbell, John O’Leary, R C J Stone
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Tikkun olam, David Zwartz
Jewish Lives in New Zealand: A History Leonard Bell and Diana Morrow (eds) Godwit, $55.00, ISBN 9781869621735 “Don’t skite!” said my loving family when I came home with the story of some success at school. Jewish Lives in New…
Tagged with: David Zwartz, Diana Morrow, Godwit, Issue 99, Leonard Bell, Spring 2012
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
The love we live by, Pinky Agnew
Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Poems Paula Green (ed) Godwit, $36.99, ISBN 9781869797621 Appropriately for a book of love poems, Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Poems is lovely to look at and to hold. Equally appropriately, closer acquaintance reveals…
Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 98, Paula Green, Pinky Agnew, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Occupation: housewife, Anne Else
Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975 Frances Walsh Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621650 I was really looking forward to this book. As soon as I could read, I started reading my mother’s magazines. Every week she…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Frances Walsh, Godwit, Issue 95, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Realistic fictions, Helen Watson White
The Art of Peter Siddell Peter Siddell Godwit, $74.99, ISBN 9781869621872 In 1982, when Peter Siddell’s painting Urban Memory, 1982, was purchased by the Christchurch Art Gallery, no one could have dreamt how much value such an image might accrue…
Tagged with: Godwit, Helen Watson White, Issue 95, Peter Siddell, Spring 2011
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Houses and homes, Robin Skinner
Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture Julia Gatley (ed) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869404666 Home Work: Leading New Zealand Architects’ Own Houses John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781869621667 Sixty years ago The Group…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Godwit, Issue 94, John Walsh, Julia Gatley, Patrick Reynolds, Robin Skinner, Winter 2011
Posted in Architecture, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
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