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Issue 123 | Spring 2018
Volume 28 | Number 3 | Issue 123 | Spring 2018 Letter C K Stead: “Unusual Obsequies” (poem) Janet Wilson: Fiona Kidman, This Mortal Boy: A Novel Annabel Gooder: Grace Bridges, Lee Murray and Aaron Compton (eds), Te Kōrero…
Time-hopping, Adrian Kinnaird
Helen and the Go-go Ninjas Ant Sang and Michael Bennett Penguin Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9780143771241 A creative collaboration between a writer and artist is common in the world of comics and graphic novels. Celebrated collaborators like Stan Lee and…
Tagged with: Adrian Kinnaird, Ant Sang, Issue 123, Michael Bennett, Spring 2018
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
“A kind of undressing”, Elspeth Sandys
Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History Peter Wells Massey University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780994143 Peter Wells is a wonderful writer, and this is almost a wonderful book. Writing a family memoir (or, as the author calls this particular memoir, Uncovering…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 123, Massey University Press, Peter Wells, Spring 2018
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Placing the monarchy, Stephen Levine
This Realm of New Zealand: The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown Alison Quentin-Baxter and Janet McLean Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408756 To say that this book adds considerably to the literature about the monarchy in New Zealand would be…
Tagged with: Alison Quentin-Baxter, Auckland University Press, Issue 123, Janet McLean, Spring 2018, Stephen Levine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Lead kindly light, Paul Morris
Sunday Best: How the Church Shaped New Zealand and New Zealand Shaped the Church Peter Lineham Massey University Press, $55.00, ISBN 9780994140777 Saints and Stirrers: Christianity, Conflict and Peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814-1945 Geoffrey Troughton (ed) Victoria University Press, $40.00,…
Shivers of emotion, Tom McLean
Dan Davin: A Field Officer’s Notebook: Selected Poems Robert McLean (ed) Cold Hub Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473430689 Robert McLean here presents an edited selection of Dan Davin’s poetry, collecting a body of verse seen as having value in itself rather…
Tagged with: Cold Hub Press, Dan Davin, Issue 123, Robert McLean, Spring 2018, Tom McLean
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Wrestling with the past, Gwynaeth McIntyre
Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561766 Athens to Aotearoa’s cover image, Herakles Wrestles the Taniwha, epitomises the very essence of…
Tagged with: Diana Burton, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Issue 123, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Brewing a legacy, Michael Donaldson
Guinness Down Under: The Famous Brew and the Family Come to Australia and New Zealand Rod Smith Eyeglass Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780473408428 Guinness – like the citizens of its country – has travelled to all parts of the world. It…
A study of politically enforced self-restraint, Janet McLean
In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy Elizabeth McLeay Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561841 As I write, the sitting president of the United States of America is reported to be seriously contemplating the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 123, Janet McLean, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dancing with facts
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