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Planting the evidence, Steven Price
Justice With Both Eyes Open Marc Alexander Hazard Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877270601 The cover of Marc Alexander’s new book exploring the criminal justice system features a laudatory remark taken from criminologist Greg Newbold’s foreword. “Refreshingly free of the mindless ideological…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 68, June 2005, Marc Alexander, Steven Price
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Cantankerous, laconic and weird, Margot Schwass
Getting Away With It Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270792 Butler’s Ringlet Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019198 A Man Who Eats The Heart Josh Greenberg Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734824 Together, these three novels suggest that the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Hazard Press, Issue 69, Josh Greenberg, Kevin Ireland, Laurence Fearnley, Margot Schwass, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Screen play, Martin Edmond
On River Road Chris Else Random, $26.95, ISBN 1869416236 Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734808 Stench Mike Johnson Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270687 Three books, all works of fiction, all by men who will not see…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 67, Martin Edmond, Mike Johnson, Nigel Cox, Random, Spring 2004, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From the edges, Anna Livesey
It Was a Tuesday Morning Peter Olds Hazard Press, $25.00, ISBN 187727075X Natural Anthem Leonard Lambert HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473098032 Recessional Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0476002710 Peter Olds published work in the iconoclastic literary magazine Freed in the late…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 67, Leonard Lambert, Peter Olds, Spring 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Moments of triumph, Joan Rosier-Jones
Transit of Venus Rowan Metcalfe Huia, $31.95, ISBN 1869690834 Love in Shades of Grey Glynne MacLean Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019309 Like Small Bones Ruth Pettis Hazard Press, $24.99, ISBN 1877270784 A first novel does not just appear. It is usually…
Tagged with: Glynne MacLean, Hazard Press, Huia, Issue 66, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Rowan Metcalfe, Ruth Pettis, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Across the great divide, Harvey McQueen
Apes Road: Poems Since 1997 Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877270245 Working Voices John O’Connor & Eric Mould Hallard Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864770480 In his essay “The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground”, Australian Les Murray explores a myth: We tend nowadays…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Eric Mould, Hallard Press, Harvey McQueen, Hazard Press, Issue 65, John O’Connor, Rob Jackaman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Here’s looking at you, kid, John O’Connor
Gallery: A Selection Mark Pirie Salt Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 1876857242 Toku Tinihanga: Selected Poems 1982-2002 Michael O’Leary HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473090066 Walking the Land Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877270520 We live in the age of celebrity. This has…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 64, John O’Connor, Kevin Ireland, Mark Pirie, Michael O’Leary, Salt Publishing, Summer 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Speaking frankly of Frank and James K, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson’s Centenary ed Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford Cape Catley, $49.99, ISBN 0908561938 O Jerusalem – James K Baxter: An Intimate Memoir Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270385 Two icons…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Frank Sargeson, Graeme Lay, Hazard Press, Issue 59, James K Baxter, Mike Minehan, Spring 2002, Stephen Stratford, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Who’s been sleeping here? Bernard Carpinter
The Empty Bed Paul Thomas HarperCollins, $31.95, ISBN 0732271703 Killings and jokes are what readers expect from Paul Thomas, after his three wonderful thrillers Old School Tie (also known as Dirty Laundry), Inside Dope and Guerilla Season. There is a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bernard Carpinter, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Horizon Press, Issue 57, Paul Thomas, Tom Lewis
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fragments of possible worlds, David Gregory
Fourteen Reasons for Writing Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 18877270080 It may not possess the weight of historical significance of The Kennedy Question, but I asked myself, “where were you when Kevin Ireland’s first book of poetry (Face to…
Tagged with: David Gregory, December 2001, Hazard Press, Issue 51, Kevin Ireland
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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