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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: Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 46, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Roger Peren, Tom Larkin, Winter 1999
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
“A genius for upholstery”, Kim Hill
Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady: such an adolescent cliché, you could say, not to mention a literary one. Spirited young thing falls in thrall to a superficially sophisticated older man, and ruins her life. The Victorians were apparently…
I remember, I remember, Jane Bowron
The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864733372 Anyone who grew up in New Zealand in the 1960s and ’70s can bask in the nostalgia of Elizabeth Knox’s trilogy The High Jump…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 46, Jane Bowron, Victoria University Press, Winter 1999
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Language and loss, John Dickson
laminations Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402227 In the poem “Can that Mango” from Murray Edmond’s latest book, the following lines are spoken (or so a note informs us) by one of two angels who are discussing a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 46, John Dickson, Murray Edmond, Winter 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Roma Potiki
Doña Musica for Julia Varley The butterflies that have come out of the garden of the kaosmos flutter behind each of the ears of Doña Musica. Doña Musica is a character and she is not. She is herself and…
Hanging matter, Marion McLeod
The Curative Charlotte Randall Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140297537 This is an amazing and amazingly good novel. The second novel is supposed to be the hardest but any reader coming to this one “blind” would judge it to be the work…
Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, Issue 46, Marion McLeod, Penguin, Winter 1999
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From a work in progress, Damien Wilkins
Finally she found the room. Truly they’d banished him and as she pulled up a chair beside the bed and took out the patient’s file from her folder, she had the question in her head, if this man is dangerous,…
From the sin bin, Bernard Carpinter
The Cassino Legacy Michael Wall Penguin, $19.95, ISBN 0140288368 Cardinal Sins Michael Wall HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503619 Michael Wall wants to see his name on the airport bookshelves of the world. He is making serious and professional efforts to write,…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Edmund Bohan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Michael Riddell, Michael Wall, Penguin, Reed, Winter 1999
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Issue 46 Winter 1999
Volume 9 | Number 2 | Issue 46 | Winter 1999 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…