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The gods gathering, John Dickson
Valparaiso Bob Orr Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402820 Human Scale Tony Beyer Sudden Valley Press, $16.95, ISBN 0958368481 The first time I read these two books, I read fast to find out whether I would want to read them…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2002, Bob Orr, Issue 57, John Dickson, Sudden Valley Press, Tony Beyer
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 57
Poetry reviewing and the art of dullness Reviewing poetry is hard, harder probably than any other kind of reviewing. With fiction, there are (usually) characters and a plot to provide a starting point. With history, ecology, or economics, there are…
Man in the dock, Lynley Hood
The Trials of Eric Mareo Charles Ferrall & Rebecca Ellis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734328 Some crimes touch a collective nerve, trigger a collective outrage. The high-pitched intensity of the debate – the foam-flecked arguments, the inflammatory media stories,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Charles Ferrall, Issue 57, Rebecca Ellis, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Jessica Le Bas
driving back from Takaka she says I will have to get a tricky one this time cause you are a smarty-pants she looks out the window g for grass h for hills t for trees r for river I will…
Holding the baby, Paula Boock
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Huia Publishers, Issue 57, Paula Boock, Renée
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Writing us up, Tom Brooking
Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940271S New Zealand’s extreme isolation has always made it
attractive to travellers. As the most remote destination on the globe it has always held…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Lydia Wevers, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Summoning the shark, Catharina van Bohemen
the shark bell Christine Johnston Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018248 Halfway to Africa Bronwyn Tate University of Otago Press, $24.95, ISBN 187727626X The Shark Bell is the story of a summer in the late 1960s St St Clair’s Beach, Dunedin, told…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bronwyn Tate, Catharina van Bohemen, Christine Johnston, Issue 57, Otago University Press, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 57
Lauris Edmond’s “false voice” In her review of my Kin of Place (October 2002 issue), Elizabeth Webby comments: “His reading [of Lauris Edmond’s “The Lecture”] depends entirely on the assumption that the “I” of the poem is Lauris Edmond herself…
Satire and sympathy, Sally Sutton
The Shag Incident Stephanie Johnson Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415019 When the playwright and academic Mervyn Thompson was abducted, branded a rapist, and tied to a tree by a group of feminists in 1984, I was eleven years old. I don’t…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Sally Sutton, Stephanie Johnson, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Far and near: some thoughts on the poetry of Bill Sewell, Brian Turner
Posted in Comment, Obituaries