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Letters – Issue 4
Bringing on the bovver boys? The theme of your brief piece in the first issue of New Zealand books, justifying the publication, was that books were an undervalued cultural asset. Mention is made of designers and publishers, but not authors…
Editorial – Issue 4
This issue reflects the intense activity of women as writers, publishers, painters and participants in every conceivable activity from those presented in The Book of New Zealand Women to a lively figure of an earlier age, Lady Barker, whose classic…
Shorter reviews, Gavin McLean
Worlds of Katherine Mansfield Harry Ricketts (ed), Nagare Press, Palmerston North, 1991 The last decade’s avalanche of books on Katherine Mansfield and her work makes this slim collection of essays timely, even necessary. Acknowledging that Mansfield has ‘become an industry’,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Carin Svensson, Gavin McLean, Harry Ricketts, Issue 4, Katherine Mansfield, Nagare Press, New Women's Press, Oxford University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Issue 4 | March 1992
Volume 1 | Number 4 | Issue 4 | March 1992 Editorial, March 1992 Letters, March 1992 Shelagh Duckham Cox: Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold, Bridget Williams (eds), The Book of New Zealand Women: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa A…
A 12 year old’s viewpoint, Nicola Chilton
Fabulous and Familiar: Children’s reading in New Zealand past and present Mary Atwool and others, Exhibition and Catalogue, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, 1991, $24.75 Books for Life Susan Price, The Gondwanaland Press, Wellington, 1991, $12 My Mum took…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Gondwanaland Press, Issue 4, Mary Atwool, National Library of New Zealand, Nicola Chilton, Susan Price
Posted in Children, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Rare and valuable flowers, Adrian Kiernander
He Reo Hou: 5 Plays by Maori Playwrights Playmarket, Wellington, 1991, $25.30 E nga rangatira, teena koutou, teena koutou, teena koutou, e nga mate, haere, haere, haere, e nga iwi katoa, teena koutou, teena koutou, teena koutou. What are my…
An admirable thematic approach, Mark Stocker
A Concise History of New Zealand Painting Michael Dunn, David Bateman, Auckland, 1991, $89.95 A history of New Zealand painting written by a scholar is well overdue. Michael Dunn, longtime Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Auckland,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, David Bateman, Issue 4, Mark Stocker, Michael Dunn
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
The true sexual and racial violence of (post-)colonial history, Judith Dale
Jeannie Once Renée, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1991, $12.95 Broken Arse Bruce Stewart, Victoria University Press, 1991, $12.95 With these, the latest in the 31-title series, New Zealand Play-scripts, is indicated the extending range of published drama. The comedic and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Bruce Stewart, Issue 4, Judith Dale, Renée, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
The legacies of history, B J Poff
Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter Jeffrey Sissons, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 1991, $39.95 Kinds of Peace: Maori People After the Wars, 1870-85 Sir Keith Sinclair, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Unsung Hero:…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1992, B J Poff, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 4, Jeffrey Sissons, Otago University Press, Peter Kennett, Sir Keith Sinclair
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review