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Poem — Owen Marshall
Mechanical grief And I see you, fortuitously, in the cheapest chicken lot in town, tucked hard against a corrugated fence, with your bald front tyres sponging in a wind flogged puddle. Sullen rain has washed the many days of…
The two cultures, Ray Henwood
As a science undergraduate in the mid-1950s I was aware of C P Snow’s attempts to awaken people to the problem of the two cultures. Perhaps my growing interest and work in theatre had given me an edge over my…
All shook up, Charlotte MacDonald
Magnitude Eight Plus: New Zealand’s Biggest Earthquake Rodney Grapes Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733400 Poor Baron Von Alzdorf, owner of Wellington’s largest brick building, a hotel, was the township’s only casualty in the earthquake which struck at 9.17 pm…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 48, Rodney Grapes, Summer 1999, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
Extraordinary eyes, Vivienne Jepsen
Love in the Land of Midas Kapka Kassabova Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140298797 I have to say, at the outset, that I enjoyed reading Kapka Kassabova’s second novel. It’s a good story, told in such a way as to keep the…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin, Summer 1999, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Flying with the godwit, Rupert Glover
Wings of the Nation: A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78 Peter Aimer The Bush Press, $49.95, ISBN 0908608861 Wings of the Nation is subtitled A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78, but it…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Peter Aimer, Rupert Glover, Summer 1999, The Bush Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Electoral debrief, Ruth Laugesen
Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999 ed Jonathan Boston, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay & Nigel S Roberts Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734042 Up the hill from Parliament, a clutch of Victoria University’s political scientists…
Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 48, Jonathan Boston, Nigel S Roberts, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Summer 1999, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Live and let learn, Jim Collinge
Learning our Living: a teaching autobiography Charmaine Pountney Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561865 For many people a teaching autobiography might not seem an exciting prospect. Charmaine Pountney, however, is no ordinary teacher. This book is an account of nearly 60…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Charmaine Pountney, Issue 48, Jim Collinge, Summer 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
The triumph of reinvention, Mary Varnham
Wellington – The First Years of European Settlement 1840-1850 Gavin McLean Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0140288635 Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens, and landscape Winsome Shepherd Te Papa Press, $49.95, ISBN 0909010730 Kirkcaldie & Stains – A Wellington Story Julia Millen…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, Bridget Williams Books, Gavin McLean, Issue 48, Julia Millen, Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd, Mary Varnham, Penguin Books, Summer 1999, Te Papa Press, The National Opera of Wellington, Winsome Shepherd
Posted in History, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Happy days, Redmer Yska
I Live Here Now: Sarah Campion in 1950s New Zealand ed Rachel Scott Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251054 Over the summer of 2000, National Radio was the unlikely backdrop for a rumble over New Zealand in the 1950s. The…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Rachel Scott, Redmer Yska, Sarah Campion, Shoal Bay Press, Summer 1999
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology