Tawa Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473 336 4 The final in the trilogy of Elizabeth Knox’s autobiographical novellas – the other two being Paremata and Pomare – Tawa is set in 1973, when Lex Keene is…
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Innocence into experience, Paula Boock
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 35, Paula Boock, Victoria University Press
Posted in Autobiography, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Fiction, Literature, Review
Never trust the narrator, Nicholas Reid
Playing Waterloo Peter Hawes Vintage New Zealand $24.95 ISBN 1 86941 323 7 The Whistler Stephanie Johnson Vintage New Zealand $29.95 ISBN 1 86941 346 6 What a beguiling thing alternative history is. In my teenage and post-teenage years, I…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Monkey business, Vivienne Jepsen
Lulu: a romance Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press $24.95, ISBN 0 86473332 1 Concrete Raewyn Alexander Penguin $24.95 ISBN 0 14027377 8 I loved In Translation, Annamarie Jagose’s first novel. It wasn‘t until about a dozen pages from the end…
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Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Issue 35, Penguin Books, Raewyn Alexander, Victoria University Press, Vivienne Jepsen
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The sadness of the incomplete, Elizabeth Caffin
A Boy and his Uncle Anne Kennedy Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33036057 4 Leave Before You Go Emily Perkins Picador $24.95 ISBN 0 33037204 1 In the opening pages of both these novels is that journey we all are heir…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Kate Camp
Yielding to the surges, Miranda Johnson
Shaking the Tree Roma Potiki Steele Roberts $19.95 ISBN 0 95837125 3 The Paper Road Julie Leibrich Steele Roberts $19.95 ISBN 0 95837122 9 the ordinary magic Vivienne Jensen (ed) New Zealand Poetry Society $14.00 ISBN 0 47304787 X Critics…
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Tagged with: Issue 35, Julie Leibrich, Miranda Johnson, Roma Potiki, Vivienne Jensen
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Digging for treasure, Richard Smith
Buried Ships: Poems new and unpublished Rob Jackaman Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 0 90879096 1 There is treasure to be found within the 144 pages of Buried Ships, though, as the subterranean cover by Bing Dawe seems to suggest, some…
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Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 35, Richard Smith, Rob Jackaman
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Brian Turner
Where history is made, Bernard Kernot
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815 Anne Salmond Viking $69.95 ISBN 0 67087787 5 The publication in 1991 of Salmond’s Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 marked a major re-interpretation of first contacts between…
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Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Bringing the body into poetry
Charles Ferrell interviews Les Murray CF: On the back cover of your latest book, Subhuman Redneck Poems, you invite the reader to guess which of its poems led you out of your recent bout of depression. Will you tell us?…
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