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No need to be noisy, Bill Sewell
Lucky Table Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734069 Vincent O’Sullivan is not – and has never been – one of our noisier poets. He’s not known, like Denis Glover or James K Baxter, for extravagant behaviour; or, like…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 50, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2000
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Wine, wisdom and so on: Four founders look back at the beginnings of New Zealand Books
Retrospective Shelagh Duckham Cox We met first in Lauris Edmond’s house at 22 Grass St in the middle of 1990 and the six of us – Lauris, John Mansfield Thomson, Pat Hawthorne, Vincent O’Sullivan, Martin Bond and Shelagh Duckham…
Tagged with: Issue 50, Martin Bond, Pat Hawthorne, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2000
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
Bent on purgation, Laurence Jenkins
Long Loop Home: A Memoir Peter Wells Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869414683 The body language in the photograph forecasts much about the story between the covers of Peter Wells’s Long Loop Home. A Memoir. Three figures pose on a deserted beach,…
Tagged with: Issue 50, Laurence Jenkins, Peter Wells, Vintage, Winter 2000
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
How to lose friends … Linda Burgess
Reviewing It’s been a good day. I read the last 20 pages, the treat I’d saved myself for the morning, then I got out of bed and wrote the review. Four hundred words in less than half an hour. The…
Poem — W H Oliver
Blue Irises for Lauris Edmond After, appropriately, several false turnings and twice overshooting the mark I was there, on the shorn grass looking around at the hills uncertain, suitably too, which of the freshly turned patches of dirt embraced…
Lyetening up, Mark Amery
Len Lye: A Biography Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402472 Len Lye himself ensures his biography is a ripper of a read. While biographer Roger Horrocks studiously clocks and chronicles the events and years of a long, ever-colourful…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 50, Len Lye, Mark Amery, Roger Horrocks, Winter 2000
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
“Considerate autocrats”, Bill Sewell and Harry Ricketts
Editing Writers can get paranoid about editors. We know; we’re writers ourselves. Like many others, we’ve imagined editors to whom we’ve submitted work flicking through it in a spirit somewhere between malice and mischief. A number of masochistic scenarios spring…
Risky business, Alison Kirkman
Whistle Blower: Abuse of Power in the Church: A New Zealand Story Louise Deans Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877178780 How dangerous men think and how to stay safe for life Brent Sanders Random House Australia, $24.95, ISBN 0091842093 Touchy Subject:…
Tagged with: Alison Jones, Alison Kirkman, Brent Sanders, Issue 50, Louise Deans, Otago University Press, Random House Australia, Tandem Press, Winter 2000
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Rubble and trouble, Philip Temple
Kaput! Stevan Eldred-Grigg 1stBooks Library, $50 approx, ISBN 1587215543 Before me I have a postcard of a 1952 poster published by the Office of Information of the German Democratic Republic. A Berlin working woman stands behind a pile of bricks,…
Tagged with: 1stBooks Library, Issue 50, Philip Temple, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Winter 2000
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review