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Issue 54 | August 2002
Volume 12 | Number 3 | Issue 54 | August 2002 David Hill: Jack Lasenby, Kalik Editorial Letters Elizabeth Caffin: Elizabeth Knox, Billie’s Kiss Alan Horsman: Julius Vogel (ed Roger Robinson), Anno Domini 2000 or Woman’s Destiny Don Aimer:…
Blues in the night, John Allison
Late Love Songs Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 1877161446 Music Therapy Peter Olds Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $17.95 ISBN 1869420233 Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 Stephen Oliver HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473073889 I’ve never written a locomotive poem; not…
Tagged with: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 54, John Allison, Peter Olds, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Some Content May Disturb, David Hill
Kalik Jack Lasenby Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 01877135593 Why should I have to review Lasenby? After all, the guy’s beaten me far too often in far too many Children’s Book Awards. I’ll review him because his Travellers quartet of Young Adult…
Tagged with: David Hill, Issue 54, Jack Lasenby, Longacre, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Poem – C K Stead
Washington (Recalling Horace III 30) Summer arriving late your poet’s remembering takes him where marbled Lincoln looked down the long reflecting water and you and he, Cynara, walked and talked three days over that hallowed ground. Let me tell…
Beyond Treaty illiteracy, Richard Hill
Healing Our History: The Challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi Robert Consedine and Joanna Consedine Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0141004487 The Treaty of Waitangi and the Control of Language Richard Dawson Institute of Policy Studies, $29.00, ISBN 0908935552 I have…
Tagged with: Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 54, Joanna Consedine, Penguin Books, Richard Dawson, Richard Hill, Robert Consedine, Winter 2001
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Vivienne Plumb
The Waiting Room You are the space I have to go to before teeth, before tickets, before examination, and lying on the funny little bed, before the train, the plane, the exam, the interview, the sudden realisation, the notification,…
Four to tango, Lawrence Jones
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance Lloyd Jones Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 014308183 No reader of Lloyd Jones’s last novel, The Book of Fame, Winner of the Deutz medal in 2001, would have been able…
Tagged with: Issue 54, Lawrence Jones, Lloyd Jones, Penguin Books, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Voice-over, Michaelanne Forster
The Big OE Nigel McCarter Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 18771788837 A Snake in the Shrine – Journeys with Nobby through Middle Japan David Geraghty University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276138 When I picked up The Big OE by Nigel…
Tagged with: David Geraghty, Issue 54, Michaelanne Forster, Nigel McCarter, Otago University Press, Tandem Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Herons, dogs, lorikeets, Kim Griggs
Fool’s Paradise Steve Braunias Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869414837 Sit Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 1877270105 From the Heart Helen Brown HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503996 According to Phillip Lopate, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, the personal…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Helen Brown, Issue 54, Joe Bennett, Kim Griggs, Random House, Steve Braunias, Winter 2001
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Disquiet’s the theme, Roger Robinson
Taking Off Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734239 A poet in his prime falls almost silent for ten years. When his new collection at last appears, it opens with a sad song of music overheard, that also asks,…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Issue 54, Roger Robinson, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review