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Issue 53 | June 2002
Volume 12 | Number 2 | Issue 53 | June 2002 Anne French: Lauris Edmond, An Autobiography; Selected Poems 1975-2000 Editorial Peter Wells: Dennis McEldowney, The World Regained; Vanya Lowry, From the Wisteria Bush Louise White: “Rituals” (poem) Nicholas…
The hollow society and its fillers, Ruth Butterworth
The Nationbuilders Brian Easton Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940260X Economic history is not much taught, written or researched in New Zealand. It seems to be the poor relation in university economics departments, losing out to the pedlars of doctrine…
High-flying hubris, Terry Hall
Battle of the Titans: Sir Ronald Trotter, Hugh Fletcher and the Rise and Fall of Fletcher Challenge Bruce Wallace Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 014100472X Bruce Wallace was in an excellent position to write a book that exhaustively chronicles the history of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Bruce Wallace, Hugh Fletcher, Issue 53, Penguin, Sir Ronald Trotter, Terry Hall
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
The Truth Problem, Anne French
An Autobiography Lauris Edmond Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 18772421225 Lauris Edmond: Selected Poems 1975-2000 ed K O Arvidson Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242152 There’s only one issue to be resolved with autobiography, and that is the Truth Problem.…
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Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Poem – Louise White
Rituals Sprung from the trunk of a treefern, a backbone curves against the sky. It was the same then, early morning under manuka, the slab secured between branches, a smoke-house dangling on rope. The knife paused in my father’s…
A model egotist, Nicholas Reid
A Deserter’s Adventures – the Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli Translated from the Italian by John Crockett Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276111 Since the first English-language publication of Dom Felice Vaggioli’s New Zealand and its Inhabitants in 2000, the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Dom Felice Vaggioli, Issue 53, John Crockett, Nicholas Reid, Otago University Press
Posted in Autobiography, History, Non-fiction, Review
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Zigzags and jags, John Horrocks
Rhyming Planet David Eggleton Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877228567 Clearances Alan Riach Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 18772700705 Acetylene Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734190 David Eggleton, street entertainer, licensed to rave, appears in a surprisingly subdued pose on…
Tagged with: Alan Riach, Autumn 2001, David Eggleton, Geoff Cochrane, Hazard Press, Issue 53, John Horrocks, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
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To sing the last word, Janet Wilson
Oh There You Are Tui! New and Selected Poems Dinah Hawken Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734107 From the outset of her poetic career, one of the most promising debuts in recent New Zealand writing with It has No Sound…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Dinah Hawken, Issue 53, Janet Wilson, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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