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Dress sense and sensibility, Jane Westaway
The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781869621810 New Zealand Fashion Design Angela Lassig Te Papa Press, $120.00, ISBN 9781877385377 Fashion can signify everything from…
Tagged with: Angela Lassig, Autumn 2011, Claire Regnault, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Godwit, Issue 93, Jane Westaway, Lucy Hammonds, Te Papa Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Reaping what you sow, James Beattie
A History of Gardening in New Zealand Bee Dawson Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621568 Published on glossy paper with quality full-colour images, A History of Gardening in New Zealand is a most attractive book. Bee Dawson provides a whistle-stop overview…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Bee Dawson, Godwit, Issue 93, James Beattie
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Collecting and restoring, John Horrocks
Where Your Left Hand Rests Fiona Kidman Godwit, $29.00, ISBN 9781869621773 As Fiona Kidman points out herself, it is half a lifetime ago since her first book of poems, Honey and Bitters, was published in 1975. Her new collection…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Godwit, Issue 92, John Horrocks, Summer 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Virtually naive, Hamish Clayton
Dick Frizzell: The Painter Dick Frizzell Godwit, $75.00; ISBN 9781869621742 It’s funny how an established artist’s moment can seem to arrive suddenly second time around with an exceptionally appealing – almost unbelievable – narrative logic. After the remarkable debut and…
Tagged with: Dick Frizzell, Godwit, Hamish Clayton, Issue 90, Winter 2010
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Not just good friends, Bill Hastings
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand Chris Brickell Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621346 This review comes to you from the backwoods of Ontario. It is a crisp autumn evening. I write this in front of a fire in…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Chris Brickell, Godwit, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Hinterlands, Mary Macpherson
Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs Andrew Ross Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864735737 Hinterland: Rick Alexander’s New Zealand Photographs Rick Alexander First Edition, $75.00, ISBN 9780475123703 A Short History of Photography Harvey Benge with Gerry Badger Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621445 Even…
Tagged with: Andrew Ross, First Edition, Gerry Badger, Godwit, Harvey Benge, Issue 84, Mary Macpherson, Rick Alexander, Summer 2008, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Zero waste, Martin Edmond
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany Brian Turner Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621421 Near the beginning of the seventh of the 34 essays in this book, the 16-year-old Brian Turner, full of teenage angst and contemplating suicide, is sitting…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Godwit, Issue 84, Martin Edmond, Summer 2008
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Neither here nor there, Jane Westaway
Here Comes Another Vital Moment Diane Brown Godwit, $25.00, ISBN 1869621190 News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 0864735324 Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia Martin Edmond Addenda, $44.95, ISBN 1921037083 According to…
Tagged with: Addenda, Diane Brown, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Jane Westaway, Martin Edmond, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Where’s Colin? Roger Blackley
Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South Christopher Johnstone Godwit, $69.99, ISBN 186921247 Christopher Johnstone begins his survey of New Zealand landscape paintings in the 1860s, the period when an exhibiting culture emerged to support amateurs,…
Tagged with: Christopher Johnstone, Godwit, Issue 78, Roger Blackley, Winter 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review