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Secrets of the All Blacks not all that secret, Spiro Zavos
The Jersey: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Team Peter Bills Pan Macmillan, $38.00, ISBN 9781509856688 Murdoch: The All Black Who Never Returned Ron Palenski Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516127 The cultural historian E H McCormick once noted that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Pan Macmillan, Peter Bills, Ron Palenski, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2018, Upstart Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Poem – Tayi Tibble
Watching the Boys Play Rugby like flies swarming in black tidal pools or a milky way of sluts in short shorts and long socks, Catholic schoolboys teasing each other in the scrum. Bull-headed matadors depending on the score. The music…
Words uncaged, Tim Upperton
How to Defeat the Philistines David Beach David Beach, $25.00, ISBN 9780473426163 Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561872 A Fine Morning at Passchendaele Kevin Ireland Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9780947493677 Poetic forms are a bit like…
Tagged with: David Beach, Harry Ricketts, Issue 124, Kevin Ireland, Steele Roberts, Summer 2018, Tim Upperton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Sport and sexuality, Bill Hastings
Broken Play Nicholas Sheppard RSVP, $35.00, ISBN 9780994140814 Grant Robertson, our minister of finance, has a picture in his office of a rugby team called the Krazy Knights. The photo was taken 20 years ago. He is in it. All…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Issue 124, Nicholas Sheppard, RSVP, Summer 2018
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Back in the day, Chris Else
Tane’s War Brendaniel Weir Cloud Ink Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473415648 Gone to Pegasus Tess Redgrave Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780473419196 Rotoroa Amy Head Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561919 Over the last ten years or so, the number of established New…
Tagged with: Amy Head, Brendaniel Weir, Chris Else, Cloud Ink Press, Issue 124, Submarine, Summer 2018, Tess Redgrave, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
With thanks, Jane Westaway
Memory Pieces Maurice Gee Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776562077 Anyone who has taken even a passing interest in Maurice Gee’s long career must be aware that his childhood has been the ongoing imaginative source of his fiction, and that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Maurice Gee, Summer 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction
Patchwork, Lisa Warrington
These Two Hands: A Memoir Renée Mākaro Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780994137845 These Two Hands is the memoir of a woman’s life which is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. Born in Napier in 1929, Renée has lived through tumultuous times, both in…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mākaro Press, Renée, Summer 2018
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Plays and playmaking, Mark Houlahan
Performing Dramaturgy Fiona Graham Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607648 Floating Islanders: Pasifika Theatre in Aotearoa Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell ISBN 9781988531076 Dawn Raids Oscar Kightley Playmarket, $18.00, ISBN 97809080607631 “What is a dramaturg?” I overheard that question earlier this year…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Fiona Graham, Issue 124, Lisa Warrington, Mark Houlahan, Oscar Kightley, Playmarket, Summer 2018
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Pacific, Plays, Review
Is the book launch dead? Graeme Lay
Posted in Comment