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Strong collection from young poets, Rachel Bush
Sevensome Vivienne Plumb and Paola Bilbrough (eds), Calliope Press, $13.00 Seven women, young enough to be able to use a word like ‘km’ comfortably and all of them talented, combined to publish this book. When I first read it, a…
Tagged with: Calliope Press, Issue 10, Paola Bilbrough, Rachel Bush, Spring 1993, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Real‑life stories? Laura Kroetsch
Other Voices 3: Lifestories Ruth and Oz Kraus (eds), Brick Row/ Hallard Press, $19.95 Other Voices 3: Lifestories is one of those books you read and, midway through the page, stop, grab the phone and call anyone you can. It…
Tagged with: Brick Row Publishing, Hallard Press, Issue 10, Laura Kroetsch, Oz Kraus, Ruth Kraus, Spring 1993
Posted in Biography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 10 | Spring 1993
Volume 3 | Number 2 | Issue 10 | Spring 1993 Paula Wagemaker: “Celebrating the Past, Challenging the Future” Letters Margot Roth: Anne Else (ed), Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations – Nga Ropu Wahine o te Motu…
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