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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, Nicholas Reid, Spring 1999
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, Shoal Bay Press, Spring 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Jan Kemp
Rain The night you flew away it rained soft rain to veil your going rain which knows you’ll return. I’ll be there on the other side of the glass in your reflection when you look for me in this…
A bit of rough, Julia Millen
A Life in Loose Strides: the story of Barry Crump Colin Hogg Hodder Moa Beckett, $34.95, ISBN 1869588223 For 40 years his name has been identified with the quintessential Kiwi male: resilient, adventurous, self-sufficient, laconic, handy with rifle and…
Tagged with: Colin Hogg, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 47, Julia Millen, Spring 1999
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Apocalypse Soon, David Hill
Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Diana Noonan, Graeme Lay, Issue 47, Longacre, Paula Boock, Penguin, Random House, Spring 1999
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
“No, bad language, please”: the YA fiction debate, Jane Westaway
Sex, suicide, abortion, incest, violence, substance abuse – read all about it in young adult (YA) fiction. In the last decade or so, the genre has become identified with what enthusiasts applaud as gritty realism, presenting characters and situations adolescents…
Generous to a fault, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jane Stafford, Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Spring 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Evolution or revolution? Terence O’Brien
New Zealand in World Affairs: Vol. 3, 1972-1990 ed Bruce Brown Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864733720 In his introduction to this third volume in the history of modern New Zealand international relations, covering 1972-1990, Merv Norrish suggests the…
Tagged with: Bruce Brown, Issue 47, Spring 1999, Terence O’Brien, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A response from the publishers
Posted in Comment