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Sidelong reflections, Norman Bilbrough
All Done With Mirrors Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 68 3 This is the sort of novel you could search through – in vain – for a narrative skeleton: the firm coat-hanger from which the story is…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 43, Norman Bilbrough, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“The muddled dailiness of things”, Stuart Murray
Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 86473 370 4 The Canadian poet Douglas Barbour once wrote that Bill Manhire’s poetry displays a “duplicitous unwillingness to guarantee anything”, a feature he felt to be…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 43, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature
Posted in Essays, Literature
Derrida Downunder, Michael Peters
I’m an unabashed Francophile when it comes to philosophy. I remember reading Sartre’s Words as a fifth-former, sitting in a Wellington coffee bar when coffee bars first became fashionable. Last year I attended a conference entitled The End of Postmodernism?…
Our very own grande dame, Ginette MacDonald
Davina: An Acting Life Davina Whitehouse Reed, $34.95, ISBN 0 7900 0706 1 That much bandied-about word “Icon” is used rather too often in New Zealand to deify anyone who has stuck their head over the punga pallisade, who in…
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Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Collier reclaimed, Jane Clendon
Edith Collier: Her Life and Work 1885-1964 Joanne Drayton, Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 908812 90 6 Edith Collier left New Zealand in 1913 in order to study art in London. (Ironically, she arrived there just in time to…
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Posted in Art, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Erebus in the frame, Lydia Wevers
Erebus: a poem Bill Sewell Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1 877161 46 2 Is Erebus one of those events like Gallipoli, a bloodied trench, an oil stain in the white wastes of our forgetting? Like most people I remember where…
Printer’s ink in the veins, Vincent O’Sullivan
Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s Geoffrey Cox University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 70 1 Sir Geoffrey Cox turns 91 this year, the last of that remarkable roll-call of New Zealanders whose only way out…
Tagged with: Geoffrey Cox, Issue 43, University of Otago Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Flagship for conservation, Neville Peat
Kapiti Chris Maclean Whitcombe Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 473 06166 X A hilly chip off the old block, Kapiti Island lies alluringly close to the mainland – a Kapiti Coast landmark with a reputation considerably out of proportion to its…
Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 43, Neville Peat, Whitcombe Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
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