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Letters – Issue 38

Giving postmodernism a chance Books may be disappointing, more so reviews, especially from the viewpoint of the reviewed. Alastair Shaw last year reviewed a collection I edited, entitled Cultural Politics and the University, along with Soleh Maani’s Investing in Minds

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Adolescents and other animals, Kate De Goldi

Dog Breath and other stories Norman Bilbrough Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0 908783 30 2 Raindancer Vivienne Joseph Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0 908783 34 5 Go Horatio! Pat Quinn Scholastic, $11.95, ISBN 1 86943 404 8 Comes Naturally David

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Literary court-jester, C K Stead

Denis Glover: His Life  Gordon Ogilvie Godwit, $59.95, ISBN 1 86962 038 0 I knew Denis Glover over many years, mostly at a distance, and never very well, yet my memories of him are sharper than those of people I

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Clayton’s books? Denis Welch

America on Five Bullets a Day Raybon Kan Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 656 5 Just Walking the Dogs Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 49 7 Yin and Tonic Renée Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1

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David Geary interviews Emily Perkins

Waiting for the (non-)event David Geary (DG): Has this lunch interrupted your day? Emily Perkins (EP): No, I always take a break in the afternoons. DG: You’re not a binge writer? EP: Nope. Nor top up. DG: Sorry? EP: It’s

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Poem – Frankie McMillan

Big Boy has something to say When I came into the room this morning, group, I felt like running away, honest to God, I did. Group, I have something to say. Now I don’t want anyone getting upset. That’s the

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A shed of one’s own, Neville Bennett

Blokes and Sheds Jim Hopkins (text) & Julie Riley (photography) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 278 7 Back Down the Track Barry Crump Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1 86958 672 7 To assert “blokes’” values – albeit very mildly

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Unexpected kindness, Elizabeth Crayford 

Boys’ night out Anne French Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 189 1 Kitchens”, the first poem in Anne French’s fifth  ollection Boys’ night out, is set in her sister’s kitchen: “Pam wants/ to know how I’m feeling.” The

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