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Settling the matter, Bill Oliver
Maori Sovereignty: the Maori Perspective Hineani Melbourne Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1 86958 208 x Maori Sovereignty: the Pakeha Perspective Carol Archie Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 186958 209x Return to Sender: what really happened at the fiscal envelope…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, Carol Archie, Hineani Melbourne, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Office of Treaty Settlements, Reed, Wira Gardiner
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Doing it our way, Bill Southworth
Mass Media in the Pacific ‑ Nuis Bilong Pasifik David Robie (ed) University of Papua New Guinea Press, $29.95 ISBN 9980840528 Foreign Correspondents Liam Jeory and Cameron Bennett Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1869582101 As the technological means for gathering…
Tagged with: Bill Southworth, Cameron Bennett, David Robie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Liam Jeory, University of Papua New Guinea Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Cliché summitry, Nigel Roberts
To Everest via Antarctica Robert Mads Anderson Penguin, $29.95 ISBN 0140254005 7 Summits Solo Robert Mads Anderson David Bateman, $125.00 ISBN 1869532074 On 30 April 1985 Dick Bass ‑ an American entrepreneur who developed the Snowbird ski resort in Utah…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 22, Nigel Roberts, Penguin Books, Robert Mads Anderson
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The practice of elusiveness, Bill Sewell
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, poet and commentator I first encountered Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s work at the University of Auckland in 1969, when my stage 1 German literature class was asked to analyse the poem “Middle Class Blues” from his third collection…
More the activity than the goal, Mac Jackson
How To Be Nowhere: Essays and Texts 1971‑1994 Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $49.95 ISBN 086473 249X This book has an index of names. There are about 560, from Laurence Aberhart to Jane Zusters. Marie Antoinette is followed by Billy…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 22, Mac Jackson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The power of words and rituals, Ruth Butterworth
The Source of the Song. New Zealand Writers on Catholicism Mark Williams (ed) Auckland University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 2872 Catholicism as a “cultural force”? Andrew Johnston very properly has trouble with the whole notion of a separable entity. Anne…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 22, Mark Williams, Ruth Butterworth
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
A question of literary trust, Harry Ricketts
Water, Leaves, Stones Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $19.95 ISBN 086473 2899 Much of Dinah Hawken’s rightly acclaimed first collection, It has no sound and is blue (1987) was concerned with balance and the difficulty of achieving and maintaining it,…
Tagged with: Dinah Hawken, Harry Ricketts, Issue 22, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Heaped atomic details, Alan Loney
Empty Orchestra David Eggleton Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 186940 1271 When David Eggleton’s Empty Orchestra arrived in my letterbox, it was the fourth book I had received that day. Beside it was another sent to me by a friend,…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, David Eggleton, Issue 22
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Accurate misquotation – a blast from the present, Hugh Roberts
Posted in Comment, Poetry