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Poem — Leonard Lambert
The Enamelled Box When they unearth the mass graves and discover the rivers of blood, or even stop to puzzle over a million lost golf-balls, may they also find medical instruments of ingenious design and exquisite precision; Let them…
Mingling the sacred and the profane, Martin Edmond
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573098 Oddly enough – or perhaps not – when this book arrived at my door I remembered one of the more arcane…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harry Ricketts, Issue 112, Martin Edmond, Penguin Books, Summer 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Voices from the past, Jock Phillips
Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans Christopher Pugsley and Charles Ferrall (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9780864739919 Amid the flood of printed words that have marked the centenary of New Zealand’s Gallipoli experience, Remembering Gallipoli comes with,…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 112, Jock Phillips, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Obituary — Jack Body
Harmonious sensuality Ross Harris recalls the life and work of fellow-composer Jack Body (1944-2015) Jack Body was born in the small North Island farming town of Te Aroha to parents with little interest in music. Even so, he was playing…
Tagged with: Gillian Whitehead, Issue 112, Jack Body, Jennifer Shennan, Ross Harris, Scilla Askew, Steele Roberts, Summer 2015
Posted in Obituaries
Posted in Obituaries
Poem – Leonard Lambert
Hinterland What lands lie east of here? North and south are known, and west, but to the east, to my left, the country folds in upon itself and falls away, rising in the near distance to a long tableland.…
Poem – C K Stead
A matter of time When I was young it was C.P. Snow averred anyone who did not know the Second Law of Thermodynamics was uneducated. ‘Two Cultures’ was his bag and what he wanted was scientists reading poems, Arts chaps…
Not just bits of cloth, Jennifer Shennan
New Zealand’s Historic Samplers – Our Stitched Stories Vivien Caughley David Bateman, $50.00 ISBN 9781869538668 Vivien Caughley’s opening definition of a sampler is “an embroidered cloth which records a stitched pattern, often the alphabet and numerals, sometimes pictures, and stitch…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 112, Jennifer Shennan, Summer 2015, Vivien Caughley
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
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