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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…
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…
No easy answers, Kirstie Archer
A Passing Guest Elspeth Sandys Flamingo, $24.95, ISBN 1869504054 In A Passing Guest, Elspeth Sandys bravely tackles contemporary New Zealand issues which many Pakeha authors shy away from: Maori and Pakeha relationships, Maori poverty, gang culture, and family breakdown. The…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Flamingo, Issue 56, Kirstie Archer, Summer 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
From the dark room, Michael Grimshaw
Snapshots on the Journey: through death & remembrance: an anthology of poems ed Rod MacLeod Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228672 Anthologies of poetry serve different purposes; the intent can be as important as the content. Michael Roberts’ Faber Book of…
Tagged with: Issue 56, Michael Grimshaw, Rod MacLeod, Steele Roberts, Summer 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Gloves off, Harry Ricketts
Adam Parore: The Wicked Keeper Angus Gillies Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 014301837X A friend and I used to have a favourite game. The game had several different permutations, but in its simplest form it involved imagining writers as cricketers and selecting…
Tagged with: Adam Parore, Angus Gillies, Harry Ricketts, Issue 56, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The one that got away, Russell Haley
Royce, Royce, the People’s Choice Peter Hawes Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414985 Peter Hawes’s new novel is a big, jocular and elaborate fishing yarn. The tale-telling is strenuously masculine, prodding, very physical. As you read, you feel as though you’re…
Tagged with: Issue 56, Peter Hawes, Random House, Russell Haley, Summer 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Awestruck at Otira, Neville Bennett
At Home on the Road Jill Malcolm New Holland, $24.95, ISBN 1877246658 Southern Journeys: South Island People and Places Roy Sinclair Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941439X There is a kea in my garden. When I hang out the washing, a…
Tagged with: Issue 56, Jill Malcolm, Neville Bennett, New Holland, Random House, Roy Sinclair, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Love and other cheeses, Susan Budd
Blessed Are Sarah-Kate Lynch Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869414977 Aromantic comedy with the WOW factor, Blessed Are makes you laugh, makes you cry and tells you everything you ever wanted to know, and more, about cheese-making. Coolarney House, where Joseph…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 56, Sarah-Kate Lynch, Summer 2001, Susan Budd
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rhythm and voice, R Carl Shuker interviews Damien Wilkins
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