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Lost voices and parodic games, Harry Ricketts
Gipsy: A Fictional Sequence of Poems Kathleen Gallagher, Nag’s Head Press, $22.50 This is an unusual book, not least because it is so handsome an artefact. Hardbound, beautifully produced, illustrated with evocative linocuts by David Nepia, Gipsy is not the…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Kathleen Gallagher, Nag's Head Press, Spring 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Colonial views, Gavin McLean
Massacre Bay: A 19th Century Saga of Colonial Life Ken Gunn, The Book Guild, $39.95 Ken Gunn’s handsomely produced hardback historical novel, Massacre Bay, takes us back to the early days of Pakeha settlement in Nelson province. It tells the…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 10, Ken Gunn, Spring 1993, The Book Guild
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
‘Womanly skills and small-scale economies’ – old assumptions and fresh perspectives, Margot Roth
Margot Roth reviews a major suffrage year publication, and briefly comments on the difficulties of book reviewing in New Zealand. Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand ‑ Nga Ropu Wahine o te Motu Anne Else…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Historical Branch Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 10, Margot Roth, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Distance and dislocation, Patricia Glensor
Best Friends Elspeth Sandys, David Ling Publishing, $19.95 Dunedin Shena Mackay, Penguin, $19.95 Both of these books deal with distance – within relationships and across time and space – and with dislocation, of various and at times particularly Antipodean kinds.…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 10, Patricia Glensor, Penguin, Shena Mackay, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Elusive birds beautifully depicted, Pat Quinn
Moa: The Story of a Fabulous Bird PhilipTemple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, $11.95 Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World Mary Taylor, Ashton Scholastic, $19.95 The South Island ‘sightings’ of the elusive moa provide a timely context…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Chris Gaskin, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 10, Mary Taylor, PhilipTemple, Spring 1993
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Posted in Children, Natural History, Review
Modern Helen of Troy disappoints, Stephanie Edmond
The Iron Mouth Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $32.95 The Iron Mouth, Beryl Fletcher’s second story in a trilogy of feminist novels, is written on two levels. On one level, it is a simple novel about a crowd of…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Spring 1993, Stephanie Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A kiwi space drama, Trevor Agnew
Deepwater Landing Ken Catran, Harper Collins (Tui), $14.95 Ken Catran is the unsung artisan of young adult writing in this country. He has been writing television scripts (Children of the Dog Star), novels (Steel riders) and film scripts (Alex) for…
Tagged with: Harper Collins, Issue 10, Ken Catran, Spring 1993, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Inner worlds, outer worlds, Jane Parkin
Seeing Red Marilyn Duckworth, Vintage, $19.95 Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight Shonagh Koea, Vintage, $19.95 Reading Shonagh Koea’s stories in Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight is like sampling a box of good, rich chocolates. Read (or eat) too many at once and…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Jane Parkin, Marilyn Duckworth, Shonagh Koea, Spring 1993, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Vivid pictures of 19th century New Zealand, Kay Harrison
Swag and Tucker Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, $18.95 The Runaway Settlers Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, $16.95 These delightful books, set in New Zealand’s colonial days, bring to life the harsh and tender experiences of families in the New Zealand of…
Tagged with: Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, Issue 10, Kay Harrison, Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults