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Poem – John Allison
Out of the Blue Each year the ocean seems more blue, the gong of light upon the eyes more resonant You walk the hillside tracks above the sea, and everywhere the world becomes translucent blue, a music that’s a mirror…
The good, the sad and the reckless, Pat Quinn
Taur Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 18 6 because he’s my brother Helen Beaglehole Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0 908783 31 0 At the Big Red Rooster William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 877135 20 8…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 37, Jack Lasenby, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Pat Quinn, Scholastic, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Literature
Posted in Children, Literature
Tickled and moved, Peter Vere-Jones
Under the Bridge & Over the Moon Kevin Ireland Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 363 6 bums on seats: The Backstage Story Roger Hall Penguin, $44.95, ISBN 0 670 88366 2 What makes a writer? As requested, I read these…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Kevin Ireland, Penguin Books, Peter Vere-Jones, Roger Hall, Vintage
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Out of the war zone, Pat Gilberd
When Parents Part How Kids Adapt: What Hurts What Heals Rhonda Pritchard Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 027790 0 When It’s Over: When a Relationship ends: New Zealanders talk about their experience of separation and divorce Michaelanne Forster Penguin, $24.95,…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Michaelanne Forster, Pat Gilberd, Penguin Books, Rhonda Pritchard
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Public postures, private lives, Erik Olssen
Waiting for the Revolution James Edwards David Ling, $24.95, ISBN 0 908990 51 0 Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes ed Tom Bramble Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86374 344 5 When I was an undergraduate…
Tagged with: David Ling, Erik Olssen, Issue 37, James Edwards, Tom Bramble, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Touched by an angel, Linda Burgess
The Vintner’s Luck Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 342 9 Put up your hand if you don’t know that Elizabeth Knox was delirious with a combination of fever and exhaustion, had a dream that lasted days,…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 37, Linda Burgess, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Jan Hutchison
The long sleep is over when this child comes to stay. The house thinks spring is here for ever. It stretches its arms out to the sky and windows and doors breathe gulps of rushing air. You can hear the…
The emptiness within, Heather Murray
The Lonely Margins of the Sea Shonagh Koea Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 348 2 On the lonely margins of society, Shonagh Koea’s women conduct their lives. It is a rich territory evidently, for after five novels and two volumes…
Subtle use of myth, Nelson Wattie
Baby No-Eyes Patricia Grace Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 14 027993 8 In Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction {reviewed on p22], Otto Heim expresses surprise that writers like Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera have shocked…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Nelson Wattie, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review