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Issue 56 | December 2002
Volume 12 | Number 5 | Issue 56 | December 2002 Tony Simpson: Damien Wilkins, When Famous People Come to Town; Kate Camp, On Kissing; Vincent O’Sullivan, On Longing Editorial Letters Harry Ricketts: Angus Gillies, Adam Parore: The Wicked…
Memory and practice, James Ritchie
Ko Tahu, Ko Au: Kai Tahu Tribal Identity Hana O’Regan Horomaka Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0473079518 In their long journeys into time, the cultures of Polynesia were refined, renewed and developed in their contents and characters not by conscious effort but…
Tagged with: Hana O’Regan, Horomaka Publishing, Issue 56, James Ritchie, Summer 2001
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Lord Of The Wings, Witi Ihimaera
Lord Of The Wings (extract from forthcoming novel ) One day Karuhiruhi, chieftain of the large black seashag iwi, decided to leave his cliff-faced pah and travel throughout his coastal kingdom. His wife, Queen Kara, had just given birth…
Empty vessel, Gavin McLean
Joyita: Solving the Mystery David G Wright Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402707 It was a recurring image in New Zealand and Pacific newspapers and magazines 40 to 50 years ago: the waterlogged hull of the old Islands trader Joyita,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David G Wright, Gavin McLean, Issue 56, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Famous last words, Bill Manhire
They knew how to die in the old Icelandic sagas. In Grettir’s Saga a man called Atli Asmundarson gets a spear through the stomach. He looks down in surprise, and then – in the middle of a 10th-century wilderness…
The short story of non-fiction, Tony Simpson
When Famous People Come to Town Damien Wilkins On Kissing Kate Camp On Longing Vincent O’Sullivan Four Winds Press, $14.95 each, ISBN 0958237506; 0958237514; 0958237530 Shortly after these little books, none much longer than 50 pages, were published in September…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Four Winds Press, Issue 56, Kate Camp, Summer 2001, Tony Simpson, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The father from hell, Julia Millen
In Endless Fear: a true story Colin Crump Penguin, $34.99, ISBN 014301823X The Crump legend again. This time, a bit of a yarn from Barry’s younger brother Colin, about growing up with the father from hell. Wally Crump should never…
Tagged with: Colin Crump, Issue 56, Julia Millen, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Bernadette Hall
Choccy Bic “cut my nails for me will ya, sweet chick,” says Nan “they’re sharp as bloody knives.” “sure thing” says Round who’s been hanging out for a choccy bic “that’s the trick!” says Nan and sticks her feet…