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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…
Editorial – Issue 56
Foul winds and fair play. The rugby season is over at last – for all of a couple of
months. But the challenger series for the America’s Cup is already beating to windward. And our professional cricketers, in whatever light…
Screw on the loose, Greg Newbold
The Journey to Prison: Who Goes and Why Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950433X Over the last few years, Celia (“Ces”) Lashlie, through her outspoken and sometimes controversial rhetoric, has become a well-known and popular speaker on criminal justice issues…
Tagged with: Celia Lashlie, Greg Newbold, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Summer 2001
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
They also serve, Katie Pickles
Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two ed Jim Sullivan HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950416X High Flyers: Celebrating the Extraordinary Women of the RNZAF 1977-2002 Bee Dawson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018221 Being in the military…
Tagged with: Bee Dawson, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Jim Sullivan, Katie Pickles, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Poem — Nick Ascroft
The 27th of December: at: “The time the chemist’s car got robbed, because They still require medicine around The tide of christmas, Grandad would’ve drowned If left alone in – like his neighbour was: “That morning, officer, because you…
Letters – Issue 56
Cosmopolitanism Mark Williams’s review of Damien Wilkins’s Chemistry (October 2002 issue) is a convincing defence against Patrick Evans’ claims that Wilkins, and other young New Zealand authors, are courting a lucrative cosmopolitanism while neglecting their duty to the local and…
Running away to sea, Redmer Yska
Swirly World: the solo voyages Andrew Fagan HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 186590402X Wet Behind the Ears: adventures of a runaway sailor Peter Taylor HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869504003 With the sea breathing down their necks, New Zealanders are drawn more than most…
Tagged with: Andrew Fagan, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Peter Taylor, Redmer Yska, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The French defection, Owen Marshall
Son of France Geoff Cush Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415027 An intellectual comic novel needs a good idea, and Geoff Cush had one for Son of France. What if the French, instead of being thwarted at Akaroa, had succeeded in making…
Words like ferns: the neglected Harold Gretton, Les Cleveland
Posted in Comment