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Issue 38 | June 1999
Volume 9 | Number 2 | Issue 38 | June 1999 C K Stead: Gordon Ogilvie, Denis Glover: His Life Editorial Correspondence Jane Stafford: Rae McGregor, The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander Vincent O’Sullivan: Stuart Murray,…
Craft and art, Belinda Jones
100 New Zealand Craft Artists Helen Schamroth Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 1 86962 036 4 Helen Schamroth defines her book as a “personal snap-shot of the late 1990s that offers a representative sampling of a broad range of recent work by…
Searching for the celestial city, Bill Sewell
A Passion for Travel ed Tina Shaw Tandem Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 877178 31 4 We seem to live in an age of pointless record-breaking. People vie with each other to gulp down the most Weetbix in the shortest time…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 38, Tandem Press, Tina Shaw
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Difficult terrain, John McCrystal
To Each His Own Philip Temple Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 51 9 At the limits of the mellow plain of memory, there stands for each of us a mountain range of sorts, glittering with a hostility that repels…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 38, John McCrystal, Philip Temple
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The pommie twit and the puppetmaster, Tom Brooking
Hobson Governor of New Zealand 1840–42 Paul Moon David Ling, $49.95, ISBN 0 90899 054 5 To Be A Hero: A Biography of Sir George Grey, 1812–1898 Edmund Bohan HarperCollins, $49.95, ISBN 1 86950 279 5 It is hard to…
Tagged with: David Ling, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 38, Paul Moon, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Interesting exercise in failure, Jane Stafford
The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander Rae McGregor University of Otago Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 877133 37 X Name the New Zealand woman writer, born in the late 19th century to a prosperous middle-class family, with an…
Tagged with: Issue 38, Jane Stafford, Rae McGregor, University of Otago Press
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The perils of pragmatism, Tim Hazledine
The State in New Zealand 1840-1984: Socialism without doctrines? Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 193 X Unlike George Lucas of Star Wars, Michael Bassett has decided to tell his story in chronological order. He had wanted…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 38, Michael Bassett, Tim Hazledine
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Swimming with the tide, Sally Sutton
The Sound of her Body Laurence Fearnley Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 25 X Night Swimming Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 376 8 Spinners Anthony McCarten Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 355 5 The American poet Randall…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tony Beyer’s new moves, Tom Weston
The Male Voice Tony Beyer Dead Poets’ Books, $9.95, ISBN 1 877185 00 0 The Century Tony Beyer HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0 473 05154 0 It must be 15 years or more ago that Tony Beyer’s poem “New Moves” appeared…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Rabbits are no-go, Diana Noonan
Stanley’s Teddy Bear Dave Gunson Scholastic, $14.95, ISBN 1 86943 419 6 ABC. A Rhyming Alphabet Nick Gormack, drawings by Jenny Rendall Nag’s Head Press, $45.00, ISBN 0 908784 79 1 Maui and the Goddess of Fire A Maori Tale…
Tagged with: Brent Putze, Dave Gunson, Diana Noonan, Gavin Bishop, Issue 38, Jenny Hessell, Jenny Rendall, John Tarlton, Nag's Head Press, Nick Gormack, Scholastic, Trevor Pye
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review