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Poem – Nicola Easthope
Man at the kerb The longest road the hottest tar the fish mouth before gulls the heart attacks the heat deafens the trembling the flying in the face the pockmarks pooling the squint the lean the chancing on the…
Issue 125 | Autumn 2019
Volume 29 | Number 1 | Issue 125 | Autumn 2019 Editorial Paula Morris: Roger Blackley, Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910 Nicola Easthope: “Man at the kerb” (Poem) Thom Conroy: Anne Kennedy, The Ice…
Editorial – Issue 125
What’s in a name? We are delighted to announce that Peppercorn Press has decided that this journal will henceforth be known as New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa. The new name better reflects what we’ve always striven to do,…
Colonial orientalism, Paula Morris
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910 Roger Blackley Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869409357 The cover image of Roger Blackley’s impressive new book is a famous one: a tea break in Charles Goldie’s frame-stacked studio in…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Roger Blackley
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
A complicated relationship, Thom Conroy
The Ice Shelf Anne Kennedy Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562015 What role does a book invite me to accept as its reader? I need not comply with a book’s request, of course, but I’m bound to recognise or, at…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Evolution or revolution?”, Simon Upton
The New Biological Economy: How New Zealanders are Creating Value from the Land Eric Pawson and the Biological Economies Team Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408886 Having lived away from New Zealand for the best part of 15 years, I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2019, Biological Economies Team, Eric Pawson, Issue 125, Simon Upton
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Going high, Julia Millen
To the Mountains: A Collection of New Zealand Alpine Writing Laurence Fearnley and Paul Hersey (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781988531205 Since the arrival of Pacific peoples, New Zealand’s mountains have enthralled and enchanted. Māori revered the craggy peaks…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Julia Millen, Laurence Fearnley, Otago University Press, Paul Hersey
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Poem – C K Stead
Tohunga Crescent Across our street the Allen Curnow house sold and garden-tidied and refurbished, respectably letting as “AirBnB” is home to wild parties, and just once a riot bringing cop cars, a paddy wagon, pepper spray and more than one…
Notes on an ending, Elspeth Sandys
Novelist and memoirist Elspeth Sandys reflects on the need and use of endnotes We are all familiar with the conversation about the relation between fiction and non-fiction. “I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography. I write autobiography and I’m…
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