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Stoic endurances, David Green
‘My hand will write what my heart dictates’: The unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends ed Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald with Tui MacDonald Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, David Green, Frances Porter, Issue 27, Tui MacDonald, Winter 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The making of a ‘too hospitable’ canon, Mac Jackson
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English ed Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558338 8 “I cannot think that real poets have any competition,” wrote Blake. But we lesser mortals…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 27, Jenny Bornholdt, Mac Jackson, Mark Williams, Oxford University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 27 — Letters
Alternatives Your review of my book, Rebuilding New Zealand, was at best a Clayton’s review, by a member of the financial establishment (the head of investment strategy for AMP Investments) who has an evident stake in the social and economic…
What new is there to tell? Miles Fairburn
Lands for the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand: a Biography of John McKenzie Tom Brooking Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 21 3 There have been three reformist governments in New Zealand history. The…
Tagged with: Issue 27, John McKenzie, Miles Fairburn, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking, Winter 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 27 — Spring 1997
Volume 7 | Number 1 | Issue 27 | Spring 1997 Brian Easton: Why we are getting poverty wrong and what we need to do Mac Jackson and Bill Oliver pick over the new Oxford anthology Janet Wilson admires…
About time we had some facts, Brian Easton
Children of the Poor: How poverty could destroy New Zealand’s future Mike Moore Canterbury University Press, $19:95, ISBN 0 908812 67 1 In 1980 the National cabinet withdrew the government subsidy to CORSO, nominally because it had produced a film…
Tagged with: Brian Easton, Canterbury University Press, Issue 27, Mike Moore, Winter 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Distracting rhetoric, Janet Hughes
Blowing My Top Kevin Ireland Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 25645 8 The opening of Blowing My Top discovers the hero, Darby Fulljames, in full cry, venting his discontent at his bankruptcy, disgrace and incarceration. Reading it, I couldn’t…
Tagged with: Issue 27, Janet Hughes, Kevin Ireland, Penguin Books, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Gripping, lyrical Kidman, Janet Wilson
Ricochet Baby Fiona Kidman Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 304 0 Fiona Kidman is today more than ever in command of her craft. Ricochet Baby, her new novel— and first book since the semi-autobiographical volume, Palm Prints (1994) — will…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 27, Janet Wilson, Vintage, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The law, Not one for cultural cringe, Bill Sewell
Salmond: Southern Jurist Alex Frame Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 86473 286 4 The name Sir John Salmond will mean little to most New Zealanders. Historians may be familiar with him as an influential Solicitor-General from 1910 to 1920…
Tagged with: Alex Frame, Bill Sewell, Issue 27, Sir John Salmond, Victoria University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
An anxious Kiwi psyche, Bill Oliver
Posted in Comment