I am not sure why I or anyone else should bother about the politics of a poet, especially of a poet whose typical response to politics varied only between contempt and rage. Still, he wrote a considerable number of political…
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Two out of four, Heather Murray
The Freedom Junkies Cliff Taylor Hazard Press, $24.95 The Age of Light Simon Wilson Penguin Books, $24.95 The Claim Sally Marshall Huia Publishers, $19.95 Jubilee Nepi Solomon Tandem Press, $19.95 Opening a novel by a new writer makes the…
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Tagged with: Cliff Taylor, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Huia Publishers, Issue 14, Nepi Solomon, Penguin Books, Sally Marshall, Simon Wilson, Tandem Press, Winter 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The need for success, Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Leap Into The Dark – The Changing Role of the State in New Zealand Since 1984 Andrew Sharp (ed) Auckland University Press, $34.95 One of the depressing features of New Zealand is the lack of sustained intellectual policy debate on…
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Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Issue 14, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A rare breed, Michael Morrissey
Prolific and professional, Norman Bilbrough
Focus and the Death‑Ride; The Ghosts of Triton; Shadow of Phobos, Ken Catran HarperCollins, $14.95 New Zealand children’s writers have come of age. They have reached a maturity that adult fiction writers in this country often fall short of. The…
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Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 14, Ken Catran, Norman Bilbrough, Winter 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Attending and avoiding, Elizabeth Webby
Journal of New Zealand Literature No 11, 1993, “Janet Frame Issue”, Department of English, University of Otago, $12.00 Paper‑givers and delegates at the conference which this issue of JNZL records came from Canada and Britain, as well as from…
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Tagged with: Department of English, Elizabeth Webby, Issue 14, Janet Frame, University of Otago, Winter 1994
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
So far, the easy part, Donal Curtin
A new approach to central banking: the New Zealand experiment and comparisons with Australia Sir Frank Holmes Institute of Policy Studies, $15.00 There is an economists’ joke about economists: it says an economist is someone who looks at something in…
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Tagged with: Donal Curtin, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 14, Sir Frank Holmes, Winter 1994
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review