Lands and Deeds Gregory O’Brien Godwit Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 908877 68 4 Timeless Land Graham Sydney, Brian Turner and Owen Marshall Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 0 9583405 5 2 100 New Zealand Paintings Warwick Brown Godwit Press, $75.00, ISBN…
Glamour and the Sea Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 305 4 The cover is a racy, blown-up photograph of three youths with the unmistakeable look of an earlier generation; to the fore is the author’s father, Ray…
An Absurd Ambition: Autobiographical Writings E H McCormick ed Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 156 5 There were giants on the earth in those days” and we follow their footsteps with awe. When writing a chapter on…
A Matter of Timing Lauris Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 140 9 In A Matter of Timing, Lauris Edmond’s first collection of new poems since the 1988 volume Summer Near the Arctic Circle, we find new depths and…
A Fighting Withdrawal: the life of Dan Davin Keith Ovenden Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0 19 212355 1 Even before this careful and stylish biography came out,to think of Dan Davin was to conjure a rich and in some…
How many cultures make a culture? Mark Williams
Australians have been encouraged over the last decade to identify their economic destiny with Asia. Their last Prime Minister even had a habit of pointing to maps and proclaiming that Australia was part of Asia. The cultural and economic redirections…
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