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Barbarians at the gate? Penny Fenwick
A Shakeup Anyway ‑ Government and the Universities in New Zealand in a Decade of Reform Ruth Butterworth and Nicholas Tarling Auckland University Press, $34.95 Universities are amongst the most enduring of all social institutions ‑ a state of affairs…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 16, Nicholas Tarling, Penny Fenwick, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1994
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
An old‑fashioned life, David Mackay
Captain James Cook: A Biography Richard Hough Hodder & Stoughton, $54.95 Explorers do not always present easy subjects for biographers. Often the central achievements take up a relatively small portion of their lives and the doggedness and perseverance required for…
Tagged with: Captain James Cook, David Mackay, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 16, Richard Hough, Summer 1994
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Operatically triumphant, Jeanine Graham
Edward Stafford: New Zealand’s First Statesman Edmund Bohan Hazard Press $49.95 Years of exposure to the drama and rhetoric of the performing arts and a professional lifetime of meticulous attention to accuracy and detail have enabled Edmund Bohan to bring…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Edward Stafford, Issue 16, Jeanine Graham, Summer 1994
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Still on the margins, Anne Else
Suffrage and Beyond ‑ International Feminist Perspectives Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (eds) Auckland University Press, $39.95 The movement for women’s suffrage can be said to have begun at the World Anti‑Slavery Convention held in London in 1840, where American…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Issue 16, Melanie Nolan, Summer 1994
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Poem — Harry Ricketts
A literary history R A K Mason The problem with being a poet in New Zealand is: how do you show it? No one wants a lone crag, or Christ on the swag. But I’m going to be famous, I…
Different qualities, Charles Croot
Ornamental Gorse Chris Orsman Victoria University Press, $19.95 The Persistent Levitator Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $19.95 Honeypants Lynda Earle Auckland University Press, $19.95 Black Family Letters from Boston L E Scott Blue Black Press / Bent Publishing, $15.95 What…
Contributing to the tribal record, Jane McRae
Kati au i konei compiled by Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal Huia Publishers, $24.95 This book contains texts, translations and explanatory notes for 15 waiata from Ngati Toarangatira and Ngati Raukawa. It is written in Maori and English, illustrated with photographs…
Tagged with: Huia Publishers, Issue 16, Jane McRae, Summer 1994, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Better at a distance, Gerry Webb
My History, I think Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin Books, $29.95 “Neither autobiography nor yet fiction, this fascinating document traces the workings inside the mind of a leading writer”, says the blurb. The sad fact is that the workings of this writer’s…
Tagged with: Gerry Webb, Issue 16, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg, Summer 1994
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Skin and bones, Tom Beard
Skinning a Fish Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 The cover illustration ‑ a cold blue etching of a grotesque deep‑sea fish screwed to a ragged knife ‑ is a spare and disturbing image that hints at a hard edge to…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 16, Kevin Ireland, Summer 1994, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review