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Letters – Issue 46
Reviewing the reviewer I am writing in response to the review of my book The Ambush, which appeared in the August issue of your magazine. Laurence Jenkins accuses me of “the clumsy telling of a not-very-interesting story”. Let’s take a…
“’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…
Tagged with: December 2000, HarperCollins, Issue 46, Marie Gray, Peta Mathias, Tony Simpson, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Out of the twilight, Harry Ricketts interviews Kate De Goldi
Interview Harry Ricketts (HR): Did books mean a lot to you as a child? Kate De Goldi (K De G): They were my whole life really. I was a remarkably sedentary child. My mother’s favourite description of me was…
Tagged with: December 2000, Harry Ricketts, Issue 46, Kate De Goldi
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Light that fire, Lydia Wevers
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 eds Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 869402308 A thick black-and-white book with a beautiful cover illustration by Patrick Hanly taken from the second issue of Freed, Big Smoke…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, December 2000, Issue 46, Lydia Wevers, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Experts in avoidance, Emma Neale
Nineteen Widows Under Ash Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473395X Wilkins’ new novel, set in the United States, begins as Evelyn Herbert undertakes a road journey to her Pacific Northwest hometown. She has left her husband, and…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, December 2000, Issue 46, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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…
Tagged with: Bernice Mene, December 2000, Geoff Young, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 46, Malcolm MacLean
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