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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…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 49 | August 2001
Volume 11 | Number 3 | Issue 49 | August 2001 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 Life…
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…
More than a decent splash, Diana Bridge
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures Lauris Edmond Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473073188 I’ll Tell You This Much Vincent O’Sullivan Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 047306345X Avalanche Vivienne Plumb Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473067056 Plunge Harry Ricketts Pemmican Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473076306…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Diana Bridge, Harry Ricketts, Issue 49, Lauris Edmond, Pemmican Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bugger the box-office, Laurie Atkinson
The Little Theatre: golden years of the New Zealand stage Glyn Strange Clerestory Press, $45.00, ISBN 0958370699 A Theatre in the House: The Careys’ Globe Rosalie Carey Otago University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877133663 If British theatre, as Richard Eyre and…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Clerestory Press, Glyn Strange, Issue 49, Laurie Atkinson, Otago University Press, Rosalie Carey
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Robber barons, worker rebels, Gavin McLean
British Capital, Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront 1915-1951 Anna Green Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187713399X A few weeks ago, a retired port agency manager asked me who was “this Anna Green lady” and did I know anything…
Tagged with: Anna Green, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Gavin McLean, Issue 49, Otago University Press
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review