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Reduced to worthy gestures, Ron Smith

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

The Armed Forces of New Zealand James Rolfe Allen & Unwin New Zealand, $39.95, ISBN 1 86448 800 X New Zealanders generally support the concept of international order. They believe that aggressors should be resisted and human rights protected. They…

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Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, War

Out of the time-capsule, Ian Richards

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

The Big Room and Other Stories O E Middleton Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1 877 22804 4 Selected Stories Maurice Shadbolt David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0 908 99056 1 These are collections of short stories by two of the old…

Tagged with: David Ling, Ian Richards, Issue 39, Maurice Shadbolt, O E Middleton, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Taking off, Paola Bilbrough

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

The Inland Eye Mary McPherson Pemmican Press, $14.95,  ISBN 0 473 05869 3 Oh My God I’m Flying Johanna Aitchison Pemmican Press, $14.95,  ISBN 0 473 05610 0 The Long Sleep is Over Jan Hutchison Steele Roberts, $19.95,  ISBN 1…

Tagged with: Glenda Fawkes, Issue 39, Jan Hutchison, Johanna Aitchison, Mary McPherson, Paola Bilbrough, Pemmican Press, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Letters – Issue 39

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Memorialising an institution Maurice Goldsmith’s review of my book, Heathen in Godzone: Seventy Years of Rationalism in New Zealand (March 1999 issue), makes some valid points. He is quite right, for instance, to point out that several important questions remain…

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Posted in Letters

Burning on, Paul Millar

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Paul Millar interviews Albert Wendt Paul Millar (PM): Your new book looks impressive. Albert Wendt (AW): If I had continued writing short stories regularly – for a period I didn’t write any – it would be even bigger. The four…

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Posted in Comment

Poem – Miranda Johnson

Posted on August 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Letter for a mayor This is Your City and after all, you’re just being civil. It’s important to look the part to swank and swoon to chat up the girls. Who knows from which pussy your next vote might emerge?…

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Posted in Poem

Issue 39 | August 1999

Posted on August 23, 1999 by NZ Books

Volume 9 | Number 3 | Issue 39 | August 1999 Ralph Crane: Maurice Shadbolt, From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir; James McNeish, An Albatross Too Many Correspondence Ian Richards: O E Middleton, The Big Room and…

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Posted in Contents