A Kind of Kingdom James Norcliffe Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 351 8 James Norcliffe lives in Christchurch – a place that has, in recent years, become a hive of poetic activity. Its pub-lishers such as Sudden…
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Willow pattern poetry, Mark Pirie
Tagged with: Issue 37, James Norcliffe, Mark Pirie, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Moore’s almanac, Linda Clark
A Brief History of the Future Mike Moore Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 908704 77 1 Aconversation with Mike Moore is like an adventure ride at a theme park. You’re bucked and rolled and threatened and sidetracked and at the…
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Tagged with: Issue 37, Linda Clark, Mike Moore, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A discomforting book, Margot Schwass
Choo Woo Lloyd Jones Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 345 3 The roaming narratives of Lloyd Jones – lately of Russia, Paris, Albania and other exotic destinations – return to local ground with Choo Woo. It’s certainly tempting to…
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Tagged with: Issue 37, Lloyd Jones, Margot Schwass, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Having the numbers, Margaret Clark
Bolger: A View from the Top Jim Bolger Penguin, $44.95, ISBN 0670 88369 7 This account of Jim Bolger’s seven years as Prime Minister has the great virtue of being written while events were still fresh in his mind. In other…
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Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Liz DeLoughrey and Susan Hall interview Patricia Grace
Immersion therapy, Ruth Brown
Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction Otto Heim Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 182 4 Both Sides of the Moon Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 362 8 After retiring from journalism,…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Māori, Review
Not reasoning the need, Maurice Goldsmith
Heathen in Godzone: Seventy Years of Rationalism in New Zealand Bill Cooke New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists, (no price given), ISBN 0 473 05392 6 This book is devoted to the institutional history of Rationalism in New Zealand. Basically Rationalism…
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology