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Poetic accomplishments, Peter Simpson

Waiting Shelter Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1991, $17.95 Angle of Repose Jean Lonie, Te Taa Haeretahi/ The Hand-in-Hand Press, Wellington, 1991 Making Tracks: A Selected 50 Poems Sam Hunt, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $14.95 Breeze Bob Orr, Auckland…
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On top of Mount Cook: women’s worlds, Shelagh Duckham Cox

The Book of New Zealand Women: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (eds), Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991, $45 You could start to read The Book of New Zealand Women at the beginning and…
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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…
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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…
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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’,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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