Volume 8 | Number 2 | Issue 33 | June 1998 Owen Marshall: Ian Richards, To bed at noon: the life and art of Maurice Duggan Tony Simpson: Neil Robinson, To the Ends of the Earth; John MacGibbon, Going…
To bed at noon: the life and art of Maurice Duggan Ian Richards Auckland University Press $49.95 ISBN 1 86940159 X There was a changing of the guard in New Zealand literature in the seventies and eighties, and one sign…
60s Chicks Hit the 90s Jane Tolerton Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 27243 7 Mea culpa. I am a Sixties Chick. A Catholic one to boot. I’ve been probed by Jane Tolerton in her gently determined style for her amazingly…
Salute to Service: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and its Predecessors, 1860-1996 Julia Millen Victoria University Press, $49.95 ISBN 0 86473 324 0 Jayforce: New Zealand and the Military Occupation of Japan, 1945-48 Laurie Brocklebank…
Change of Hart Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95 ISBN 1 86958 571 2 John Hart’s second book in four years, Change of Hart, had a hard act to follow. His first book, Straight from the Hart, written when he…
Shape-Shifter Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts $29.95 ISBN 0 9583712 1 0 In Hone Tuwhare’s work all senses are engaged – tasting, sniffing, visualising, touching and hearing the world of the poem – each poem generates atmosphere through the powerhouse of…