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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On the Main Trunk Line, Charlotte Yates
An Ordinary Joker: the life and songs of Peter Cape ed Roger Steele Steele Roberts, $59.95, ISBN 1877228125 For a singer, Peter Cape has always struck me as an anomaly, with his thin nasal tenor, tentative tuning, and strongly defective…
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Tagged with: Charlotte Yates, Issue 55, Peter Cape, Roger Steele, Spring 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Pamela to pomo, Sydney Shep
Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study of his Printing Based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts Keith Maslen University of Otago (Studies in English 7), $95.00, ISBN 0473077604 Reading/Saying/Making: Selected Essays Alan Loney The Writers Group, $39.95, ISBN 0473076284…
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Tagged with: Alan Loney, Issue 55, Keith Maslen, Samuel Richardson, Spring 2001, Sydney Shep, The Writers Group, University of Otago
Posted in Biography, Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Lucky dip, Nelson Wattie
After Bathing at Baxter’s: Essays and Notebooks Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734182 Structurally, as the subtitle suggests, this is a mixed bag, but on most pages most readers will find a sentence or two, a paragraph, an…
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Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 55, Nelson Wattie, Spring 2001, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
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
Small shoes; small reviews: media treatment of children’s literature, Barbara Mabbett
It is a truth universally acknowledged that value of labour is associated with size of client: children’s nurses and teachers, for instance, are almost always paid less that those who nurse or teach people whose shoes and wallets are somewhat…
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