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Travels with a paintbrush, Iain Sharp
Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific Laurence Simmons Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877578175 In the last decades of the 20th century, with political correctness at its zenith, you could scarcely mention the British Empire in…
Tagged with: Iain Sharp, Issue 99, James Cook, Laurence Simmons, Otago University Press, Spring 2012, William Hodges
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Temporal blather, Iain Sharp
Iain Sharp raises an eyebrow at the ghosts of reviewers past. Thanks to the National Library’s splendid Papers Past website, forgotten follies are now at our fingertips. In June and early July 1909, for example, every edition of the Ashburton…
Combing the romantic inheritance, Iain Sharp
Lives of the Poets John Newton Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736284 Goya Rules Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 9780473160401 Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing from Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404581 When…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2011, Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Iain Sharp, Issue 93, John Newton, Murray Edmond, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
World-famous in New Zealand, Philip Temple
Heaphy Iain Sharp Auckland University Press, $64.99, ISBN 9781869404215 The one-name title for this book confidently assumes this is someone we all know. After all, there can be only one Heaphy – Charles – because in the history of our…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Iain Sharp, Issue 85, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Hearing the voice, James Norcliffe
The Singing Harp Iain Sharp Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420365 The Dwarf and the Stripper and other poems Stephen Sinclair Addenda, $19.95, ISBN 095821865X To … Bill Dacker Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420357 Many…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bill Dacker, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Iain Sharp, Issue 66, James Norcliffe, Stephen Sinclair, Winter 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
What might he have become? Iain Sharp
The Man Who Never Lived Kevin Ireland Vintage, $24.95 ISBN 1 86941 325 3 Kevin Ireland begins his second novel in classic thriller mode. While taking his daily constitutional walk along the waterfront of Mt Matheson (an affluent seaside community…
Ironies with wry detachment, Iain Sharp
My Name is Paradiso James McNeish David Ling, $24.95 ISBN 0908990278 On the back cover of his seventh novel, there’s a head-and-shoulders photograph of James McNeish taken by his wife, Helen. The author has been caught midway through the process…
Reviled, Iain Sharp
Poor Behaviour Bill Payne Secker & Warburg, $24.95 The Duration of a Kiss Peter Wells Secker & Warburg, $24.95 I wonder what Bill Payne and Peter Wells make of each other. Simultaneous publication by Reed’s new Secker & Warburg imprint…
Tagged with: Bill Payne, Iain Sharp, Issue 16, Peter Wells, Secker & Warburg, Summer 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bovver boys
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