When considering euthanasia First, you should own a wise physician friend, a young one, the kind who could find a needle in a brainstorm. If not, rent one. If you wish, consult a minister or priest. (For myself, I…
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Localising the global, George Griffiths
From Tamaki-makau-rau to Auckland R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402596 Rolling Thunder: the Spirit of Karekare Bob Harvey Exisle Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0908988176 Remembering Godley: a Portrait of Canterbury’s Founder ed Mark Stocker Hazard Press, $29.95,…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Bob Harvey, Exisle Publishing, George Griffiths, Hazard Press, Issue 53, Julia Bradshaw, Mark Stocker, Otago University Press, R C J Stone
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Both sides now, Peter Wells
The World Regained Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1869402537 From the Wisteria Bush Vanya Lowry Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402561 The nature of memoir is an act of resurrection, exploration, delineation. It is both a wreath placed…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Dennis McEldowney, Issue 53, Peter Wells, Vanya Lowry
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 53
Moments of invention, Bill Sewell
The Stepmother Tree James McNaughton Darius Press, $14.95, ISBN 0473078244 I don’t think there is such a thing as a “stepmother tree”. My Shorter Oxford hasn’t heard of it anyway. But if a stepmother tree has never existed, then perhaps…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Bill Sewell, Darius Press, Issue 53, James McNaughton
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Cultivating their own garden, Harvey McQueen
Dialectic of Mud Richard Reeve Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 869402529 The Whole Forest Nick Williamson Sudden Valley Press, $16.95, ISBN 095820912X Abstract Internal Furniture Helen Rickerby HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473078570 Most New Zealand poetry is a private garden. The…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2001, Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Helen Rickerby, Issue 53, Nick Williamson, Richard Reeve, Sudden Valley Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Argument without end, Michael King
The Shaping of History: Essays from The New Zealand Journal of History ed Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242179 Histories, Power and Loss: Uses of the Past – a New Zealand Commentary ed Andrew Sharp and Paul McHugh…
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Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Autumn 2001, Bain Attwood, Bridget Williams Books, Fiona Magowan, Issue 53, Judith Binney, Michael King, Paul McHugh
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The grit and the grog, Gerry Evans
Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam Neil Atkinson Te Papa Press, $39.95, ISBN 0909010818 An Errand of Mercy: Captain Jacob Eckhoff and the loss of the Kakanui Redmer Yska Banshee Books, $29.95, ISBN 0473076993 “For more than…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Banshee Books, Gerry Evans, Issue 53, Neil Atkinson, Redmer Yska, Te Papa Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Stirring lilacs, Norman Bilbrough
The Secret History of Modernism C K Stead Harvill Press, $29.95, ISBN 1864069418 Usually I find it a pleasure to read my way into C K Stead’s particular world; to encounter the consciousness beneath – and attached to – the narrative.…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2001, C K Stead, Harvill Press, Issue 53, Norman Bilbrough
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review