Volume 12 | Number 1 | Issue 52 | March 2002 Michael Laws: Brian Edwards, Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister Editorial Shelagh Duckham Cox: Kirsty Gunn, Featherstone Simone Drichel: Alan Duff, Szabad Diana Bridge: “The route” (poem) Kim…
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Redefining war art, Roger Blackley
I was no soldier: An artist’s war diary Ted Lewis Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228494 I was no soldier tells the story of an art teacher’s experiences of World War 2. Ted Lewis volunteered in January 1941 for the medical…
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Tagged with: Issue 52, Roger Blackley, Steele Roberts, Summer 2002, Ted Lewis
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The perils of proximity, Michael Laws
Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister Brian Edwards Exisle Publishing, $44.95, ISBN 0908988206 Biography is a fraught art. If the subject is dead, then the Author is reliant upon a myriad of sources, often contradictory, to capture the essence of…
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Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Exisle Publishing, Helen Clarke, Issue 52, Michael Laws, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Without guilt or apology, Harry Ricketts
Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life: New & Collected Writings Michael King Cape Catley, $34.95, ISBN 0908561881 “This is the sort of letter that doesn’t look well in a Biography,” Rupert Brooke wrote Eddie Marsh in September 1913. Brooke…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Harry Ricketts, Issue 52, Michael King, Summer 2002
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Bestriding two worlds, Alan Ward
He Tipua: The Life and Times of Sir Apirana Ngata Ranginui Walker Viking, $69.95, ISBN 0670911887 In the Foreword, Sir Henare Ngata, son of Sir Apirana, on Behalf of the Ngata family and the Ngati Porou people, thanks Dr Ranginui…
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Tagged with: Alan Ward, Issue 52, Ranginui Walker, Sir Apirana Ngata, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Not the Wairarapa? Shelagh Duckham Cox
Featherstone Kirsty Gunn Faber & Faber, $34.95, ISBN 0571212476 The epigraph is an entry in an imagined handbook. It provides information you’d expect from a motoring guide about a small town you’ve never visited before, and it’s in the same format…
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Tagged with: Faber & Faber, Issue 52, Kirsty Gunn, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Summer 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Something nobody counted on, Bill Hastings
Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 086473414X I completely misunderstood this book. I did what I usually do to begin reviewing a book. I checked for a subtitle,…
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Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Issue 52, Stephanie de Montalk, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press, W K (Bill) Hastings
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Faith’ll fix it, Catharina Van Bohemen
faithsinger Rosie Scott Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414667 “It’s a delightful reversal that I’ve become more radical as I’ve gotten older. I get so enraged by the kind of social injustice I feel”: Rosie Scott in an interview with Rob O’Neill…
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Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Issue 52, Rosie Scott, Summer 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review