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1905: A Sports Odyssey, Adrienne Simpson
The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140296948 New Zealanders love sport. The truth of this frequently-heard comment is daily demonstrated by the amount of space our newspapers allocate to sporting activities. Success on the cricket pitch, putting…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, Issue 46, Lloyd Jones, Penguin, Winter 1999
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial — Issue 46
Publishers behaving badly Writers can be an ungracious lot. They take offence easily; they rarely apologise or express thanks; even more rarely do they return favours. They are also known to derive as much pleasure from a friend’s literary failure…
Catherine Chidgey — work in progress
From a work in progress [Marin and his brother Ivan are living in a rough gumfield whare in the far north of New Zealand around 1900. This section opens with a letter from Marin to his sister.] A strange…
When Porsche comes to shove, Jane Clifton
The Anti-Economist Papers Paul Bieleski Tandem, $24.95, ISBN 187717856X Here’s a nice rural scene: a passing motorist bets a mustering farmer one sheep that he can guess the exact number of sheep in his flock. When the motorist gets the…
Tagged with: Issue 46, Jane Clifton, Paul Bieleski, Tandem, Winter 1999
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem — Kate Camp
Admit one Cranes like cranes above the city. The city is a poem that says no matter what boat you take you cannot find the boat to take you from yourself to yourself. The man who is part of…
“They all knew”, Peter Russell
Strawberries with the Führer Helga Tiscenko Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251038 The first chapters of Helga Tiscenko’s memoir of her life are in large part a tale of the ordinary. Her childhood with her younger sister Sigrid in…
Tagged with: Helga Tiscenko, Issue 46, Peter Russell, Shoal Bay Press, Winter 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The rhythm method, Paola Bilbrough
From the Author of Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733887 Animals Indoors Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733895 A close-up of a bat’s face and prehensile paws adorn the cover of Nick Ascroft’s first collection…
Tagged with: Issue 46, Nick Ascroft, Paola Bilbrough, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press, Winter 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — John Dickson
a note concerning names the early spring evening was warm and close and while I walked the dog there was grass and trees and a moon and something else in me the intimate safety of names Later, I listened…
The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling
Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 0908561784…
Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan, Winter 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review