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The federation game, Colin James
Waltzing with Matilda: Should New Zealand join Australia? Bob Catley Dark Horse Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0958214611 A chilling graph presented to Auckland business leaders on 14 May undermines Bob Catley’s thesis. Auckland, the graph showed, lost 3.4% in GDP per…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, Bob Catley, Colin James, Dark Horse Publishing, Issue 49
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Variations on the familiar, Lawrence Jones
Ellie and the Shadow Man Maurice Gee Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0141004177 Responses to Maurice Gee’s Ellie and the Shadow Man, his fourteenth adult novel and his twenty-sixth book, will probably vary between the extremes marked by two of my…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, Issue 49, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Odds on, Joseph Romanos
Two Over Three on Goodtime Sugar: The New Zealand TAB turns 50 David Grant Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734018 David Grant’s history of the Totalisator Agency Board should come with a warning: it is not to be approached by…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, David Grant, Issue 49, Joseph Romanos, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Editorial – Issue 49
Two cheers for biography Biography doesn’t always get a good press. It has been Said to have “added a new terror to death”, while Oscar Wilde remarked that “[e]very great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas…
More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson
Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…
Tagged with: Autumn 2000, HeadworX, Issue 49, L E Scott, Mary Macpherson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 49 Autumn 2000
Volume 10 | Number 1 | Issue 49 | Autumn 2000 Barry Gustafson: Michael Bassett & Michael King, Tomorrow Comes the Song. A Life of Peter Fraser Editorial Correspondence Kim Hill: Carole van Grondelle, Angel of the Anzacs: The…
Poem — Jo Thorpe
The Tate Modern (found in Time magazine) As power stations go, Bankside was a looker a hulking lunker with tapering chimney and squat symmetry enhanced by groups of windows striping its entire height. Also, it has size – which modern…
Elsie Locke, Hugh Laracy
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