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Rain Queen, Judith Fyfe
Salote, Queen of Paradise Margaret Hixon Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877133787 The image of Queen Salote, in London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953 – defiantly riding in an open coach in the pouring rain, and…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Judith Fyfe, June 2001, Margaret Hixon, Otago University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Roads to nowhere? Ruth Butterworth
Building the Constitution ed Colin James Institute of Policy Studies, $45, ISBN 090893548X Some time in 1997, with the prolonged aftermath of the first MMP election still agitating the establishment and mightily diverting the rest of us, the idea gained…
Tagged with: Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 48, June 2001, Ruth Butterworth
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
What about the pets? Suzanne Innes-Kent
Recycled People: Forming New Relationships in Mid-life Coral Atkinson & Paula Wagemaker Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251046 Recycled People is a timely and welcome book. When one examines the generation of any timely idea, one discovers that it arises…
Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Issue 48, June 2001, Paula Wagemaker, Shoal Bay Press, Suzanne Innes-Kent
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Margaret Atwood in New Zealand, Anne Else
Beginnings and Endings Mostly I want to read what writers write, not look at r listen to them. But in the mid-1980s, I went to hear Margaret Atwood. Murder in the Dark had recently appeared, and she read “Happy…
Turning the pages, Keith Maslen
A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand ed Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes and Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402316 These fifteen essays, based on papers given at the first New…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Issue 48, June 2001, Keith Maslen, Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
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…
Purposeful nonsense? John O’Connor
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