Volume 11 | Number 1 | Issue 47 | March 2001 Julia Millen: Colin Hogg, A Life in Loose Strides: the story of Barry Crump Editorial Correspondence Jan Kemp: “Rain” (poem) Dale Williams: W V Kerr & John Kerr,…
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Certainties/doubts, Kate Camp
the long road to teatime Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402235 Writing Lives – Ending Silences Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877161853 I have admired Anna Jackson’s poetry in various journals, and as part of the AUP…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Hat-tricks, Geoff Robinson
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, volume 5 (1941-1960) Auckland University Press/Department of Internal Affairs, $130.00, ISBN 1869402243 When asked to review this fifth volume of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, my first reaction was “why me?”; and…
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Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
The freedom within, Nelson Wattie
Skylark Lounge Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733925 In Nigel Cox’s second novel, Dirty Work, Nif, a woman rebelling against the controlling hand of Hendy, the master of her world, has a message tattooed on her back –…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Strangers in a strange land, Chris Else
A Spider-Web Season and The Transfer Station Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161799 Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …” This line from Yeats is the epigraph to Russell Haley’s first book, The Walled Garden (1972). It…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rolling the credits, Nicholas Reid
Reframing Women – a History of New Zealand Film Deborah Shepard HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869503147 Books that set out to be histories of an art form are always doing two things simultaneously – documenting and criticising. Deborah Shepard’s Reframing…
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Tagged with: Deborah Shepard, HarperCollins, Issue 47, March 2001, Nicholas Reid
Posted in Gender, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Paul Wolffram
Passion and precision, Chris Laidlaw
A Lucky Man Keith Quinn Shoal Bay Press, $44.95, ISBN 0908704917 It is one of life’s idiosyncrasies that the nicer a guy is, the more some people will feel compelled to hate him. Keith Quinn, the doyen of television sports…
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Tagged with: Chris Laidlaw, Issue 47, Keith Quinn, March 2001, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
A response from the publishers
The basic premise of your editorial in the December 2000 issue (“Publishers behaving badly”) was quite reasonable. Publishers should indeed accept or reject submissions, or discuss a continuation of consideration with authors within three months. Unfortunately, the editorial tends to…
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