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Issue 117 | Autumn 2017
Volume 27 | Number 1 | Issue 117 | Autumn 2017 Editorial Letter Kevin Ireland: Adam Dudding, My Father’s Island: A Memoir Helene Wong: Tyl von Randow, Red Dust Over Shanghai: A Shanghai-New Zealand Memoir 1937-1954 Martin Edmond: Nick…
Poem – Fleur Adcock
The Old Government Buildings There it sprawls, embodying magnitude – but also symmetry – not sure whether to label itself “buildings” or “building”. Dignity would demand the plural, but “Largest wooden building in the southern Hemisphere” denotes it as singular.…
Poetry and politics, Sarah Sharp
Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist Harry Holland (Dougal McNeill ed) Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493172 Writing during the 1920s, Harry Holland describes the celebration of Burns Night as an event which unites Scots around the world: be the Scot where…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Dougal McNeill, Harry Holland, Issue 117, Robert Burns, Sarah Sharp, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Writing about writing, Anne Else
Talk of Treasure Jane Carswell Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780994137913 How do you depict the process of writing? Very few of the many films about writers try to show their protagonist actually doing it. Doctor Zhivago demonstrates why: Omar Sharif sits…
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poetic truths, Helen Heath
In a Slant Light: A Poet’s Memoir Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578717 When I read Elizabeth Knox’s personal essays The Love School, in 2008, I finally realised that a writer’s past is whatever they say it is.…
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Treaty flows, Alex Calder
Treaty of Waitangi: The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State Miranda Johnson Oxford University Press, $41.00, ISBN 9780190600020 Reconciliation, Representation and Indigeneity: “Biculturalism” in Aotearoa New Zealand Peter Adds, Brigitte Bönish-Brednich, Richard S Hill, Graeme Whimp…
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Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Quality assured, Guy Somerset
Annual Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris (eds) Gecko Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776570775 Would it kill Wellington children’s publisher Gecko Press to once – just once! – say “Sod it, really, who can be bothered?” and bung out some bit…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Downtown voices and sugar-rush diction, David Cohen
The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016 Nicola Legat (ed) Massey University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780994130068 Tell You What 2017: Great New Zealand Nonfiction Susanna Andrew and Jolisa Gracewood (eds) Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781869408602 If I had to name…
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Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Wonderful New Zealand everydayness, Caitlin Walker
The Year of Falling Janis Freegard Mākaro Press, $35.00 ISBN 9780994106575 Selina’s life seems perfect. She’s got the job of her dreams, she and her boyfriend have been together for a record 18 months, and she’s got her health under…
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Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
From a trio of veterans, Anna Mackenzie
The Severed Land Maurice Gee Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143770244 Shooting Stars Brian Falkner Scholastic, $21.00, ISBN 9781775433606 Cool Nukes Des Hunt Scholastic, $20.00, ISBN 9781775433422 As a veteran of more than 50 years, Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s…
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Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults