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The thinking person’s romance, Dennis McEldowney
The Beetle in the Box: a love story Chris Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414527 Anyone who has sat on the selection panel for a writer’s fellowship knows that the worst thing applicants can do is include a bald précis of…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Dennis McEldowney, Issue 48, June 2001, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Surf’s up … and down, Glenn Wood
Gone Surfing: The Golden Years of Surfing in New Zealand, 1950-1970 Luke Williamson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140298908 Over the past few years I’ve spent a considerable amount of surfing time sitting on various beaches, board beside me, wondering why I’d…
Tagged with: Glenn Wood, Issue 48, June 2001, Luke Williamson, Penguin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sport
The traffic in perceptions, Janet Hughes
Talking Pictures: Selected Poems Riemke Ensing HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473068044 The cover of Riemke Ensing’s latest collection sends mixed typographic signals. You read Selected Poems first, at the top; but it’s in italic, and grey, so it defers to the…
Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 48, Janet Hughes, June 2001, Riemke Ensing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters – Issue 48
Trade and politics I have a number of comments on Terence O’Brien’s review, in your March issue, of New Zealand in World Affairs, Volume III, 1972-1990, which I edited. The first is about New Zealand’s long and successful rearguard action…
Poem – John Ridland
Spring, 1940 (Christchurch) This morning Mary Ursula Bethell saw “Suddenly a weeping willow green, Beside the mechanic street.” Meantime Frank Thomas, Gear-changing effortlessly his fine machine, Motored over the “grey, stone-heavy bridge” To his garage – his garage –…
Issue 48 | June 2001
Volume 11 | Number 2 | Issue 48 | June 2001 Mary Varnham: Gavin McLean, Wellington – The First Years of European Settlement 1840-1850; Winsome Shepherd, Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens, and landscape; Julia Millen, Kirkcaldie & Stains –…
“No place for the flamboyant”, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Southern Capital Christchurch: Towards a City Biography 1850-2000 ed John Cookson & Graeme Dunstall Canterbury University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0908812876 Christchurch Changing Geoffrey Rice Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0908812531 Christchurch is my home city. My heart and my brain…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Geoffrey Rice, Graeme Dunstall, Issue 48, John Cookson, June 2001, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Story time, Ian Richards
City of Reeds Tina Shaw Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 014029791X City of Reeds, Tina Shaw’s third novel, is a large and accomplished work. It’s an example of a relatively new departure in New Zealand fiction: the story-telling novel. This sort…
Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 48, June 2001, Penguin Books, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not plain sailing, Anne French
Shapes on the Wind David Lewis HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 073226801X In 1934, when I was seventeen, I celebrated my last days at boarding school by building a canoe/kayak and informing the headmaster that I was going home in it…
Tagged with: Anne French, David Lewis, HarperCollins, Issue 48, June 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review