Volume 13 | Number 2 | Issue 58 | June 2003 Brian Turner: W H Oliver, Looking for the Phoenix – A Memoir Editorial Letters Elizabeth Smither: “Singing in the rain” (poem) Lydia Wevers: Bill Sewell, The Ballad of…
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Back to the future, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Another thing about Jake, Otto Heim
Hard lines, David Grant
The Crisis in New Zealand Schools Martin Hames Education Forum in Association with Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864694105 My initial reaction was that The Crisis in New Zealand schools would be redolent with jargon and full of half-truths and misinformation…
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Tagged with: David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Education Forum, Issue 58, Martin Hames, Winter 2002
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Jan Kemp
In command of his talent, Lydia Wevers
The Ballad of Fifty-one Bill Sewell HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473092540 A couple of years ago I wrote a favourable review of Bill Sewell’s long poem Erebus (1999). He rang and thanked me after he read it; part of what he…
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Tagged with: Bill Sewell, HeadworX, Issue 58, Lydia Wevers, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A room of one’s own, Jane Tolerton
Away from Home: The Story of Victoria House Frances Porter Bridget Williams Books, $29.95, ISBN 1877242977 Girls “on the cusp of independence”, as the back cover of this book puts it, are the stuff of many a story. But that…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Frances Porter, Issue 58, Jane Tolerton, Winter 2002
Posted in History, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Review, Sociology
Talking Music, Sue Court
Talking Music: conversations with New Zealand musicians Sarah Shieff Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402286 Sometimes, out of sheer perversity, I read an entire book ithout having read the preface or introduction to see whether my perception of a book is…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 58, Sarah Shieff, Sue Court, Winter 2002
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Free speech (at a price), Lynley Hood
I used to believe that only pornographers, bigots, blasphemers and show-offs needed to worry about censorship in New Zealand. But, in the course of bringing A City Possessed into the world, I discovered that we all have to worry about…
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