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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Winged words, Jane McRae
Nga Pepeha a nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors ed Hirini Moko Mead and Neil Grove Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864733992 Maori sayings are “ready bits of loftiness and sonority”, to use George Steiner’s apt characterisation of formulaic expression.…
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Tagged with: Hirini Moko Mead, Issue 52, Neil Grove, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Ghosts and disclosures, Charmaine Pountney
Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand ed Alison Laurie Harrington Park Press, $79.95, ISBN 1560232528 Academic publications are often daunting to lay readers obscure, dense, and obfuscatory. But Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, a paperback for general readers (co-published simultaneously as…
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Tagged with: Alison Laurie, Charmaine Pountney, Harrington Park Press, Issue 52, Summer 2002
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Butting the trend, Marion McLeod
In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings 1984 – 2000 Marilyn Waring Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242098 Journalism is an ephemeral business. “Today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapping” – the saying may be out of date but the…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 52, Marilyn Waring, Marion McLeod, Summer 2002
Posted in Essays, Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Essays, Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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