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For us there is only the trying, Paul Morris
Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-Fiction 2015 Jolisa Gracewood and Susanna Andrew (eds) Auckland University Press, $30.00 ISBN 9781869408244 Greatest Hits: A Quarter Century of Journalistic Encounters and Notes from Lost Cities David Cohen Mākaro Press, $35.00 ISBN 9780994106544…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Cohen, Issue 110, Jolisa Gracewood, Mākaro Press, Paul Morris, Susanna Andrew, Winter 2015
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Those are pearls that were his eyes, Lindsay Missen
Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand: 40 Years of Fingers Jewellery Gallery Damian Skinner and Finn McCahon-Jones David Bateman, $60.00, ISBN 9781869538620 Place and Adornment: A History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand Damian Skinner and Kevin Murray…
Tagged with: Damian Skinner, David Bateman, Finn McCahon-Jones, Issue 110, Kevin Murray, Lindsay Missen, Winter 2015
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
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
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…
Poppy lopping and cultural cringing
Posted in Comment