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Do they have talent?: they sure have chutzpah, Anne French
Between these Hills Vivienne Plumb (ed), Between these Hills Collective, Wellington, 1991 White Feathers: An Anthology of New Zealand and Pacific Island Poetry on the Theme of Peace Terry Locke, Peter Low and John Winslade (eds), Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991,…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 1992, Between these Hills Collective, Hazard Press, Issue 4, John McIndoe, John Winslade, Michael Harlow, Peter Low, Terry Locke, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A lifelong acrimonious argument: portrait of Patrick White, A F Bellette
Patrick White: a Life David Marr, Cape, London, 1991, $49.95 In future each issue will contain at least one review of an important book published outside New Zealand. Here A F Bellette reviews the first biography of Australia’s perhaps greatest…
Tagged with: A F Bellette, Autumn 1992, Cape, David Marr, Issue 4, Patrick White
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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…
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Bridget Williams, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 4, Merimeri Penfold, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Posted in Biography, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
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…