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Catherine Healy: Giving sex workers a voice
Working Girls Jan Jordan, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 In 1987 when the Prostitutes Collective was established largely in response to the AIDS pandemic, it was necessary to turn to overseas experience for guidance. It was all very interesting reading about…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Catherine Healy, Issue 4, Jan Jordan, Penguin
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lighthouses illuminated, J H Sutherland
Leading Lights: Lighthouses of New Zealand Anna Gibbons, photographs by Grant Sheehan, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $44.95 Just after Easter 1990, the keepers were withdrawn from The Brothers Lighthouse in Cook Strait, the last New Zealand light to be de-manned…
Tagged with: Anna Gibbons, Autumn 1992, Grant Sheehan, Hazard Press, Issue 4, J H Sutherland
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Acceptance of diversity, Claire-Louise McCurdy
Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View Julie Glamuzina and Alison J Laurie, New Womens Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Does anyone in New Zealand at the time not remember Parker and Hulme, the two Christchurch girls who murdered the mother of…
Tagged with: Alison J Laurie, Autumn 1992, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Issue 4, Julie Glamuzina, Juliet Hulme, New Women's Press, Pauline Parker
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson
New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Publisher Profiles 2: Bridget Williams Books, Fiona Kidman
‘I have a commitment to social justice and equality. I don’t believe there should be poverty in New Zealand like there is now. That’s the social background to my publishing’, says Bridget Williams. The publishing office of Bridget Williams Books…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Bridget Williams, Bridget Williams Books, Fiona Kidman, Issue 4
Posted in Imprints
Posted in Imprints
Jonathan Else: Welcome to a new series
Nigel Brown Gregory O’Brien, Random Century, Auckland, 1991, $33.95 Gretchen Albrecht Linda Gill, Random Century, Auckland, 1991, $33.95 (New Zealand Contemporary Artists series) On the strength of these first two titles, anyone wishing to know more about New Zealand painting…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Gregory O’Brien, Gretchen Albrecht, Issue 4, Jonathan Else, Linda Gill, Nigel Brown, Random Century
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Leonard Lambert
Sonless Man Sonless man, soft murderer. made of this daughter a loud unlovely boy, as if a man should swap yarns with a fern or force a rough acquaintance with the mysteries of the earth, Sonless man, shy killer,…
From teapots to platters: a vital potter, Brian Carmody
Doreen Blumhardt, Teacher and Potter Marion McLeod, Daphne Brasell Associates, Wellington, 1991, $21.95 In a world where books on artists and craftsmen are often loaded with jargon and preoccupied with the personal psychology of the subject, Doreen Blumhardt, Teacher and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Brian Carmody, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Doreen Blumhardt, Issue 4, Marion McLeod
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Blurred portrait of a painter, Mark Stocker
Alan Pearson: His Life and art Denys Trussell, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $75 Biography is one thing and hagiography quite another. Sadly, Denys Trussell has failed to realise the difference in his readable, provocative but deeply flawed biography of the…
Tagged with: Alan Pearson, Autumn 1992, Denys Trussell, Hazard Press, Issue 4, Mark Stocker
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The poetry scene today, Tony Beyer
Posted in Comment