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New Zealand’s bloodiest campaign, Steven Loveridge
New Zealand’s Western Front Campaign Ian McGibbon Bateman, $80.00, ISBN 9781869539269 Efforts to explain and/or convey WWI’s Western Front have endured for a century. Libraries could be stocked with military histories investigating the operation of armies, the performance of commanders…
Tagged with: Bateman, Ian McGibbon, Issue 118, Steven Loveridge, Winter 2017
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
A most “vigorous afterlife”, Roger Blackley
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (eds) Auckland University Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, $75.00, ISBN 9781869408565 This extremely elegant book, with its unusual, tall-and-thin “hyper-portrait” format, brings the artist Gottfried…
Tagged with: Gottfried Lindauer, Issue 118, Ngahiraka Mason, Roger Blackley, Winter 2017, Zara Stanhope
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The unnerving detritus of what was, Jane Westaway
The Shops Steve Braunias and Peter Black (photographer) Luncheon Sausage Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780908689941 Once upon a time, I met people who owned a shop. I was young and impressionable and, on my first visit, was dazzled by a window…
Tagged with: Issue 118, Jane Westaway, Luncheon Sausage Books, Peter Black, Steve Braunias, Winter 2017
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
A continuum of community, Chris Bourke
New Zealand Jazz Life Norman Meehan (Tony Whincup photographer) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560929 In the 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, the fictional rock band was positive about its declining fan base. “We are more selective about our…
Tagged with: Chris Bourke, Issue 118, Norman Meehan, Tony Whincup, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Protect, promote, and attract an audience, Wayne Hope
Māori Television: The First Ten Years Jo Smith Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408572 The birth of the Māori Television Service in March 2004 coincided with nationwide protests against the Labour government’s plan to entrench, legislatively, Crown ownership of the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 118, Jo Smith, Wayne Hope, Winter 2017
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Turning a blind eye, Rae Varcoe
Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the “Unfortunate Experiment” Ronald W Jones Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780947522438 My first acquaintance with National Women’s Hospital was as a final-year medical student in 1968. It was an unpleasant experience of…
Tagged with: Issue 118, Otago University Press, Rae Varcoe, Ronald W Jones, Winter 2017
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – John Davidson
Parsifal We all shoot the swan in youthful trespass ignorant of our misdeed. Not all of us, though, get off so lightly and get a second chance to be embraced as saviour fool. And the second chance, if it comes…
Poem – C K Stead
The year was 69 (for Sam Sampson) Reading your poem and re-reading my reading I remembered the bar Colin painted for Maurice in the studio among trees below the house above the inlet at Arapito Road with a text that…
Making friends with Mansfield, Ashlee Nelson
Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir Sarah Laing Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776560691 The graphic form is in some ways a more complex undertaking than straightforward prose, for a graphic text must concern itself not only with the words…
Tagged with: Ashlee Nelson, Issue 118, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Laing, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review