Volume 12 | Number 4 | Issue 55 | October 2002 Tim Hazledine: Jane Kelsey, At the Crossroads. Three Essays Editorial Letters “Imprints”: Peter Wells Jane Stafford: Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson, The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin…
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Super-seded? Susan St John
Rewarding Service: A history of the Government Superannuation Fund Neil Atkinson University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276227 It is hard to disagree with the opening lines of this book: “In The past three decades superannuation has become one of…
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Tagged with: Issue 55, Neil Atkinson, Otago University Press, Spring 2001, Susan St John
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Chord and discord Laurence Jenkins
A Life Set to Music, the Autobiography of Edwin Carr, New Zealand Composer Edwin Carr Blanchard Press, $42.95, ISBN 0473078511 With the recent death of Douglas Lilburn, this country was reminded that the vanguard of creative artists, those who first…
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Tagged with: Blanchard Press, Edwin Carr, Issue 55, Laurence Jenkins, Spring 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Less than kind, Elizabeth Webby
Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers C K Stead Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402723 When invited to review this new collection of critical essays by C K Stead, I initially demurred on the grounds of my…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Webby, Issue 55, Spring 2001
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
A fierce inwardness, Peter Wells
Poem – Leonard Lambert
Irony and automata, Bill Sewell
Husk Chris Price Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402669 I suppose it’s as true to say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its title as by its cover. Certainly, when it comes to some otherwise admirable collections of New…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Sewell, Chris Price, Issue 55, Spring 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Rescue mission, Nicholas Reid
A Fair and Just Solution – a History of the Integration of Private Schools in New Zealand Rory Sweetman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694148 Once upon a time there were, theoretically, two school systems in New Zealand. There were state…
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Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 55, Nicholas Reid, Rory Sweetman, Spring 2001
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Harry Orsman
Whizzbangs and big bangs, Fleur Beale
Follow the blue Brigid Lowry Allen & Unwin, $19.95, ISBN 186508400X Letters from the Coffin Trenches Ken Catran Random House, $16.95, ISBN 1869415094 The Sleeper Wakes David Hill Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313242 The High Wind Blows David Hill Puffin, $15.95,…
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Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Brigid Lowry, David Hill, Fleur Beale, Issue 55, Ken Catran, Puffin, Random House, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults