The End of the Golden Weather directed by Ian Mune This is not a film review. Movie buffs please note. It is a reflection on a key work in the corpus of New Zealand literature and the use which a…
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New Zealand film: an overall view, John Roberts
Tagged with: Bruce Mason, Ian Mune, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Edge of The Earth, Alison Glenny
Edge of The Earth; Stories and Images from the Antipodes Vincent Ward (with Alison Carter, Geoff Chapple and Louis Nowra), Reed, Auckland, 1990, $34.95 The appearance and title of this loosely strung together collection of prose pieces, photographs and film stills,…
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Tagged with: Alison Carter, Alison Glenny, Geoff Chapple, Issue 5, Louis Nowra, Reed, Vincent Ward, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, Māori, Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Māori, Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Figures in history: the sculpture of Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan
Visitors who arrive at Mangere airport see their first piece of New Zealand sculpture as they leave the main terminal building: the eight-foot-high bronze figure of a young lean Batten as she stretches on tip-toe, waving to the crowd, reaching for…
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Tagged with: Issue 5, Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Fun for the very young, Nicola Chilton
Food is Fun for Young Cooks Dianne Lowry and Jan van der Voo, Book 2 Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 This book states it is ‘a perfect introduction for 7-12 year-olds to the delights of cooking’. About a quarter…
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Tagged with: Dianne Lowry, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 5, Jan van der Voo, Nicola Chilton, Winter 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 5
Boys at centre-stage, Vivien Joseph
Uncle Trev and The Great South Island Plan Jack Lasenby, Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, 1991, $14.95 Does Daniel Wilmott Tell Lies? Juliet Martin, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991 The Boy At The Door and Other Stories of the Supernatural Anthony Holcroft, Hazard…
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Tagged with: Anthony Holcroft, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 5, Jack Lasenby, Juliet Martin, Vivien Joseph, Winter 1992
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Parrots and paintings, Tom Fitzgibbon
The Story of the Kakapo: Parrot of the night Philip Temple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, $9.95 Matarawa House Rhondda Greig, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $21.50 For the many summertime trampers such as myself, the name of Philip Temple…
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Tagged with: Chris Gaskin, Hazard Press, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 5, Philip Temple, Rhondda Greig, Tom Fitzgibbon, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
The Dictionary in retrospect, John Roberts
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume One, 1769-1869, Allen and Unwin (Bridget Williams Books) and the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1990, $120 Christendom is essentially a construct of biography. The Gospels relate the temporal genealogy, life and death…
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Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Bridget Williams Books, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review