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Issue 47 | March 2001
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,…
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…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Hazard Press, Issue 47, Kate Camp, March 2001, Mike Minehan
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Department of Internal Affairs, Geoff Robinson, Issue 47, March 2001
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 –…
Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Nelson Wattie, Nigel Cox, Victoria University Press
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…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 47, March 2001, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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…
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
Reader In writing, I can’t help but remember with intimate indifference the vein that runs parallel to your neck. Entering bone just below and in front of your earlobe, where it’s riven with vein purpose beneath your lower row…
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…
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
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