Star Waka Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 86940 213 8 Robert Sullivan is himself a star by whose directions we may sail with some certainty. His work has already established him as a writer of skill and…
See more ›
Blog Archives
Following the stars, James Ritchie
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 40, James Ritchie, Robert Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The hidden Hyde, Chris Prentice
The Book of Nadath Robin Hyde (ed Michele Leggott) Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 86940 191 3 We are at another of the threshold times that punctuate historical consciousness, when we look back, take stock, and, through the inevitable process…
See more ›
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Prentice, Issue 40, Michele Leggott, Robin Hyde
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Time to lay the past to rest, Fujio Kano and Duncan Campbell
The Featherston Chronicles: A Legacy of War Mike Nicolaidi HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1 86950 295 7 Within the wider framework of the history of New Zealand’s involvement in World War Two, the “happenings and events” that took place in No.…
See more ›
Tagged with: Duncan Campbell, Fujio Kano, HarperCollins, Issue 40, Mike Nicolaidi
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Underestimated, Harry Ricketts
The Perfect Symbol: Poems Unpublished & Uncollected Louis Johnson (with illustrations by Edgar Mansfield) Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877159 06 9 It’s eleven years now since the death of Louis Johnson, a large, likeable man with a relish for…
See more ›
Tagged with: Harry Ricketts, Issue 40, Louis Johnson, Wai-te-ata Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Beeb without the warts, Jim Collinge
To The Fullest Extent Of His Powers: C E Beeby’s Life In Education Noeline Alcorn Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 86473 353 4 About 20 years ago I met an old doctor. On learning that I was involved in…
See more ›
Tagged with: C E Beeby, Issue 40, Jim Collinge, Noeline Alcorn, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
“We even wept a little”, Philip Temple
View From The Summit Sir Edmund Hillary Doubleday, $59.95, ISBN 0 908821 09 3 This is a book by a man’s man, the kind of Kiwi male whom R A K Mason saw as the “embodiment of the New Zealand…
See more ›
Tagged with: Doubleday, Issue 40, Philip Temple, Sir Edmund Hillary
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review