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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2001, C K Stead, Harvill Press, Issue 53, Norman Bilbrough
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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.…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 2001, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 53, K O Arvidson, Lauris Edmond
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…
Talking Toss Woollaston, Gregory O’Brien
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