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Poem – Allen Curnow
A Raised Voice Let it be Sunday and the alp-high summer gale gusting to fifty miles. Windmills groan in disbelief, the giant in the pulpit enjoys his own credible scale, stands twelve feet ‘clothed in fine linen’ visibly white from…
Consecrating Curnow, Simon During
Allen Curnow: Simply by Sailing in a New Direction Terry Sturm (Linda Cassells (ed)) Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408527, Allen Curnow’s first book, Valley of Decision, appeared as a “Phoenix Miscellany” under the Auckland University College Students’ Association Press…
Tagged with: Allen Curnow, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Linda Cassells, Simon During, Terry Sturm
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 121
Readership survey results We have been asking ourselves some questions lately, about how we can change and improve to meet the changing expectations of our readers. The answer to questions relating to format and appearance were obvious – the journal…
A story of story-telling, Miriam Meyerhoff
The Truth About Language: What it is and where it came from Michael C Corballis Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408633 Many people have remarked that, more than language itself, how we use language is what sets humans apart from…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Michael C Corballis, Miriam Meyerhoff
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Championing indigenous art histories, Stella Ramage
Colonial Gothic to Māori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Conal McCarthy and Mark Stocker (eds) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9781776561094 The Gedenkschrift – essays by colleagues collected in posthumous commemoration of an esteemed academic – is an…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Conal McCarthy, Issue 121, Mark Stocker, Stella Ramage, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
“An area of increasing need”, Sylvan Thomson
Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives Evan Hazenberg and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561759 The day before this review was due, my mother messaged me to say that she had heard an interview on…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Evan Hazenberg, Issue 121, Miriam Meyerhoff, Sylvan Thomson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
A bizarre, but very New Zealand, world, Jonathan Lane
Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult Lilia Tarawa Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781760631499 Lilia Tarawa’s memoir, Daughter of Gloriavale, paints her childhood somewhere between an idyllic summer camp in the country and the winged bonnets and…
Radiant living: a hero rediscovered, Julia Millen
Edmund Hillary: A Biography Michael Gill Potton and Burton, $60.00, ISBN 9780947503383 1953: Edmund Hillary, Everest conqueror (with Tenzing Norgay), is knighted by newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II. From the time he climbed his first peak in the Southern Alps,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Julia Millen, Michael Gill, Potton and Burton
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Art about sadness, Dylan Horrocks
Out of the Woods: A Journey Through Depression and Anxiety Brent Williams (Korkut Öztekin illus) Educational Resources, $40.00, ISBN 9780473390068 American cartoonist Keiler Roberts, whose comics have eloquently documented her own struggles with mental illness, recently wondered on Facebook about…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Brent Williams, Dylan Horrocks, Educational Resources, Issue 121, Korkut Öztekin
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
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