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“Shocking the model” John McCrystal
Five Minutes Alone Paul Cleave Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572312 The Legend of Winstone Blackhat Tanya Moir Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775537755 MiSTORY Philip Temple Font Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 978047328204 You could argue that the artistic imagination is like one of those…
Tagged with: Font Publishing, Issue 110, John McCrystal, Paul Cleave, Penguin, Philip Temple, Tanya Moir, Vintage, Winter 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 110
Obligatory piety We don’t know whether, like us, others are feeling a certain uneasiness at the direction the WWI/Anzac centenary commemorations (often celebrations) are taking. That the platoons of books regularly pouring off the presses, here and overseas, that the…
Poem – Fiona Kidman
Grass Street 2000-2015 (more…)…
Telling stories, Jane Westaway
In the Neighbourhood of Fame Bridget van der Zijpp Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739247 Sleep Sister Karen Breen Eunoia Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9780994104755 These two new novels appear from what – not long ago – would have been opposite…
Tagged with: Bridget van der Zijpp, Eunoia Publishing, Issue 110, Jane Westaway, Karen Breen, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 110
Neuropathic not neurasthenic pain (more…)…
Genesis of a Māori writer, Tina Makereti
Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9781869797263 It is sometimes useful, in reading a review, to have some sense of the reviewer’s positioning in relation to the material. After all, the New Zealand literary community…
Tagged with: Issue 110, Tina Makereti, Vintage, Winter 2015, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poppy lopping and cultural cringing
Novelist Chris Else reflects on “the Eleanor Catton affair” Among the matters raised by the Eleanor Catton affair, two seem to have been given short shrift: our treatment of our tall poppies and whether or not we suffer from cultural…
Happy birthday Gecko Press
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