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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
Rough justice, Malcolm MacLean
Mene Confessions: Tall Tales from Netball’s Inner Circle Bernice Mene (and Geoff Young) Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1869588282 Picture the scene: an exceptionally glum group of public servants in Wellington one Monday morning in October 1999. The reason…
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, December 2000, Issue 46, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Random House, Robyn Kahukiwa
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
A hard-won magic, Elizabeth Crayford
Markings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133922 Not long after Cilla McQueen moved to her new address on Liffey St, Bluff, she booked a place on a tour of the Tiwai aluminium smelter, the chimney of which…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, December 2000, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 46, Otago University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
On the beat, Neil Cameron
A Policeman’s Paradise? Policing a Stable Society, 1918-1945 Graeme Dunstall Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $49.95, ISBN 0864693567 This (large) volume is the fourth in the “official” history of the New Zealand…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – David Eggleton
Late-Model Import-Export Cultural Recycling Poem The golden cherubim of twenty-two turn into promises of middle age, locked inside a gilded cage. Jumping Jack Weta is growing rhubarb in the suburbs; Academies of Yahoos offer Diplomas in Primal Urges. Maybe…
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
A dentist’s view of heaven No drill, no syringes, no mouth washes no cotton padding like tiny bolsters no excavating a tooth like a collapsed house in which at the bottom remains like a family safe in a doodlebug…
From the University of Suffering, Joe Bennett
Julia Moore : Julia Moore P.I. Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140293833 Lauren Roche: Bent Not Broken Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228338 These are the stories of two New Zealand women who have triumphed over circumstance. Neither story makes cheerful reading…
Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Joe Bennett, Julia Moore, Lauren Roche, Penguin, Steele Roberts
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – James Brown
The Crickets We came creeping out the cracks hot summer nights at the local swimming pool like black, anti-cicadas of the night, our exotic chirps a skimpy advert for the sins we hoped would be forthcoming. We sucked in…
Overlapping associations, Tom Larkin
Japan and New Zealand, 150 Years ed Roger Peren New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Massey University, in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, [not for sale], ISBN 0958350574 In 1878, Asajiro Noda, the eight-year-old son…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 46, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Roger Peren, Tom Larkin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War