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Walking in the real world, Owen Marshall
Dad Art Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560561 Acoustic engineer Michael Stirling is divorced, in contact through a dating site with apparently grieving Chrissie, tending a father in a dementia unit, living in Wellington’s Sanctum Apartments having lost…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 114, Owen Marshall, Victoria University Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Fiona Roberton
Dad When I go to visit him at 4:30 on a Friday he thinks Sunday and looks into my eyes as if I might know. I don’t. I don’t even know when his dinner time is. We occupy different worlds…
Hero worship, Gyles Beckford
A Few Hares to Chase: The Life and Economics of Bill Phillips Alan Bollard Auckland University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9781869408299 The sages have long counselled that you should never meet your heroes. Should that be extended to writing about them?…
Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Auckland University Press, Bill Phillips, Gyles Beckford, Issue 114, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Changed, changed utterly, Diane Comer
Earthquakes & Butterflies Kathleen Gallagher Wickcandle Books, $35.00, ISBN 9780473332327 Kathleen Gallagher’s Earthquakes & Butterflies is a work of profound beauty and healing for all of us who experienced the Christchurch earthquakes, however near or far we were from the…
Tagged with: Diane Comer, Issue 114, Kathleen Gallagher, Wickcandle Books, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Consecrated ground, Ian Lochhead
Historic Churches: A Guide to Over 60 Early New Zealand Churches Linda Burgess (Robert Burgess photographer) Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775537335 Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design Bill McKay (Jane Ussher photographer) Godwit, $85.00, ISBN 9781775538363 One of…
Tagged with: Bill McKay, Godwit, Ian Lochhead, Issue 114, Jane Ussher, Linda Burgess, Random House, Robert Burgess, Winter 2016
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Looking for love, Kirsten McDougall
52 Men Louise Wareham Leonard Red Hen Press, $36.00, ISBN 97815970999967 I felt deeply sad upon finishing Louise Wareham Leonard’s new book, 52 Men. Its constituent 52 parts tell a story that fits right into our Tinder-times, even though Leonard…
Tagged with: Issue 114, Kirsten McDougall, Louise Wareham Leonard, Red Hen Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Unearthing skeletons, John McCrystal
Daughters of Messene Maggie Rainey-Smith Mākaro Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994117267 Something Else David Parkyn (Sally Griffin illus) Piedog Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780473321505 “There are only two or three human stories,” as Willa Cather once said, “and they go on repeating…
Tagged with: David Parkyn, Issue 114, John McCrystal, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Mākaro Press, Piedog Press, Sally Griffin, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tipping points, Sylvan Thomson
First Lady – From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand’s Sex-change Pioneer Liz Roberts with Alison Mau Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927262375 Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand Education Alexandra C Gunn and Lee A Smith (eds)…
Tagged with: Alexandra C Gunn, Alison Mau, Issue 114, Lee A Smith, Liz Roberts, Otago University Press, Sylvan Thomson, Upstart Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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The Sharp end of the stick, Catherine Robertson
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