The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806-45 R D Crosby Reed Books, $65, ISBN 0 7900 0677 4 Ron Crosby’s The Musket Wars successfully compiles most of the available published material on the 1800-1840 wars between Maori into…
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Rise of the Super-models, Bernadette Hall
AUP New Poets Raewyn Alexander, Anna Jackson, Sarah Quigley Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 197 2 Sleeve-notes Emma Neale Godwit, $19.95, ISBN 1 86962 048 8 bell tongue Paola Bilbrough Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 363…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The eyes had it, Brian Turner
Bruno Roger Booth Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 908812 83 3 Years ago, whenever Bruno Lawrence (born in 1941 in Brighton, England, as David Charles Gilbert Lawrence) appeared or was mentioned, I used to think, “I’ll bet he’s a…
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Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
In a minor key, Victoria Carchidi
Letters – Issue 42
Poem – L E Scott
Early Sleep to sleep an hour before midnight they say is better than two after it depends on who the dream visitors are before dawn L E Scott
Writers and Readers Week, Jane Stafford
Come and float free of normal life Every year I bury a hundred and fifty of my townspeople. Another dozen or two I take to the crematory to be burned. I sell caskets, burial vaults, and urns for ashes. I…
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