Blog Archives
Letters – Issue 10
Review gives too much away I was grateful I had read Maurice Gee’s Going West before I read Elizabeth Smither’s review. One of the many fine things about the novel was Gee’s skilful withholding of major events, but most of…
Language listening to itself, Peter Crisp
The Drummer Ian Wedde, Auckland University Press, $18.95 The poem is a place where language listens to itself. Often it can be an occasion for acute soundings, where nods and glances tug at every cadence. Poetry today can be edgy…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Wedde, Issue 10, Peter Crisp, Spring 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Volume marred by lack of critical analysis, Ruth Butterworth
Claiming the Law: Essays by New Zealand Women in Celebration of the 1993 Suffrage Centennial Elisabeth McDonald and Graeme Austin (eds), Victoria University Press, $29.95 I was brought up in a matriarchy, educated at a girls’ school by confident women…
Tagged with: Elisabeth McDonald, Graeme Austin, Issue 10, Ruth Butterworth, Spring 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 10
Paula Wagemaker: ‘Celebrating the Past, Challenging the Future’ We live in an age of slogans – quick statements dreamed up to promote an idea, sell a product, launch a campaign. Most are glib and irritating, but some, like certain…
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