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…
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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…
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Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 46, Otago University Press, Winter 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Poem — Kate Camp
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…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 46, John Dickson, Murray Edmond, Winter 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Poem — John Dickson
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 for a…
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Tagged with: Issue 46, Joe Bennett, Julia Moore, Lauren Roche, Penguin, Steele Roberts, Winter 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction and Review
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…
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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 and War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review and War
“’Tis desperate, so ‘tis” Tony Simpson
Burnt Barley Peta Mathias Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414276 Irish at Heart Marie Gray HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1865903449 It’s bound to continue to be one of the curiosities of this century – as it was of the last – that however…
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Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 46, Marie Gray, Peta Mathias, Tony Simpson, Vintage, Winter 1999
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review
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…
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Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan, Winter 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction and Review