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Words and deeds, Helen Watson White
The Political Years Marilyn Waring Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781988545936 The cover of Marilyn Waring’s book The Political Years shows a telling photograph of the 1979 National Party caucus in the Beehive: row upon row of suited men, with…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen Watson White, Issue 128, Marilyn Waring, Summer 2019
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
A critical lamp in a dark world, Helen Watson White
Charles Brasch: Journals 1958-1973 Charles Brasch, selected by Peter Simpson Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781988531144 “How many existences one leads at once,” wrote Dunedin poet, critic, patron and Landfall editor Charles Brasch in 1958: I am here with LF…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Charles Brasch, Helen Watson White, Issue 125, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Peacetime at last, Helen Watson White
Astride a Fierce Wind Huberta Hellendoorn Submarine, $38.00, ISBN 9780473395216 Writing in retirement in the small Dunedin apartment she shares with her husband Bart, Huberta Hellendoorn characteristically uses a domestic metaphor to describe her ever-changing experience: The revolving dryer reminds…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Helen Watson White, Huberta Hellendoorn, Issue 121, Submarine
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Christchurch circles and cliques, Helen Watson White
Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408480 When Christchurch poet and printer Denis Glover travelled to Britain in 1941 to serve in the Royal Navy, he left behind one literary circle and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Helen Watson White, Issue 116, Peter Simpson, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
At large and at small, Helen Watson White
In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections Otago Students of Letters Department of English, University of Otago, $22.00, ISBN 9780473249818 R A Lawson: Victorian Architect of Dunedin Norman Ledgerwood (Graham Warman photographs) Historic Cemeteries…
The one and the many, Helen Watson White
Urbanesia: Four Pasifika Plays Courtney Sina Meredith, Vela Manusaute, Victor Rodger, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Nathaniel Lees Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607433 Haruru Mai Briar Grace-Smith Strange Resting Places Paolo Rotondo and Rob Mokaraka Playmarket, $32.00, ISBN 9780908607440 In 2012, nearing…
Tagged with: Briar Grace-Smith, Courtney Sina Meredith, David Fane, Helen Watson White, Issue 103, Nathaniel Lees, Oscar Kightley, Paolo Rotondo, Playmarket, Rob Mokaraka, Spring 2013, Vela Manusaute, Victor Rodger
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, 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
Still sacred lives, Helen Watson White
Red Studio: Forty-five Prints John Z Robinson Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877460388 John Z Robinson is an artist in many media, and in two major modes. One is the ebullient use of colour in free-style painting; the other the witty,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Helen Watson White, Issue 89, John Z Robinson, Longacre Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
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