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Issue 109 | Autumn 2015
Volume 25 | Number 1 | Issue 109 | Autumn 2015 Letters Colin Peacock: Nicky Hager, Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment; Michael Field, The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans…
Letters – Issue 109
Mud on the tracks I want to say a few things about some connotations in the review of my third novel, Glam Rock Boyfriends (NZB Spring 2014). Nick Bollinger, your reviewer, is an expert re rock music, so I was…
Lifting the lid, Colin Peacock
Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 9781927213360 The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans Michael Field Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249024 “Laws are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Colin Peacock, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 109, Michael Field, Nicky Hager
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Siobhan Harvey
Cloudboy Sees the Sky Break (more…)…
From near and far, Pip Adam
The Shark Party Janet Colson Escalator Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473295141 Run Thomas Run Kate Carty Escalator Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473295240 The Silver Gaucho Jackie Ballantyne The Doby Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780473275259 In a lot of ways, these books represent work…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Escalator Press, Issue 109, Jackie Ballantyne, Janet Colson, Kate Carty, Pip Adam, The Doby Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Exploring the biographers, Tom Brooking
Frank Worsley: Shackleton’s Fearless Captain John Thomson Craig Potton, $50.00 ISBN 9781927213124 Dumont d’Urville: Explorer and Polymath Edward Duyker Otago University Press, $70.00 ISBN 9781877578700 Here we have two very different approaches to writing about the history of European…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Craig Potton, Dumont d’Urville, Edward Duyker, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, Issue 109, John Thomson, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
eSensual readings, Murray Bramwell
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe and Harry Ricketts (eds) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775534594 So what makes poems essential? In their introduction to this most appealing collection, the three editors mull over the problem…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 109, James Norcliffe, Murray Bramwell, Siobhan Harvey
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The sliding door in the dark, Airini Beautrais
The Lonely Nude Emily Dobson Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739292 Cinema Helen Rickerby Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473276485 Waha/Mouth Hinemoana Baker Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739704 I have often wondered how far poetry can stray into the mundane,…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Autumn 2015, Emily Dobson, Helen Rickerby, Hinemoana Baker, Issue 109, Mākaro Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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