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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…
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, June 2001, Rodney Grapes, 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, June 2001, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Purposeful nonsense? John O’Connor
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