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Issue 59 | August 2003
Volume 13 | Number 3 | Issue 59 | August 2003 Janet Wilson: Marilyn Duckworth, Swallowing Diamonds Editorial Correspondence Gavin McLean: Heather Worth, Anna Paris and Louisa Allen (eds), The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New…
The art of the odd, Janet Wilson
Swallowing Diamonds Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415485 In Marilyn Duckworth, New Zealand has its finest writer of the absurd. Although others have written about states of unreality or non-reality – most particularly Janet Frame, younger novelists like Elizabeth Knox,…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Taking ideas for a walk, Anne French
Tracing the Arc John Saker Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237557 On Make-up and Makeover Paula Boock Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237549 Notes of a Bag Lady Margaret Mahy Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237522 Until recently, the essay…
Tagged with: Anne French, Four Winds Press, Issue 59, John Saker, Margaret Mahy, Paula Boock, Spring 2002
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Adventures in the waiting room, Garth Baker
Going the Distance – Women Outdoors in New Zealand Tess Redgrave Tandem Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877298018 Seduced by the Sea ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869504461 Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail Geoff Chapple Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941537X…
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Posted in Awards, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Awards, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review
Aotearoa – the last frontier, Neville Peat
Environmental Histories of New Zealand ed Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019558421X Environmentally and in other ways, New Zealand is a last frontier – the last temperate-climate land on earth to be discovered and colonised…
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Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A light yodel, Jane Bowron
The Topp Twins Book Jools and Lynda Topp Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0143018604 The Topp Twins book is an absolute must for Topp Twins’ fans and an absolute miss for those with no more than a passing acquaintance with the…
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 59
And the winner is Literary prizes are, of course, a good thing, and only the most curmudgeonly of spoilsports would want to abolish them. In a profession with few career markers, prizes like the Montana New Zealand Book Awards…
Queering the Kiwi bloke’s pitch, Gavin McLean
The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New Zealand ed Heather Worth, Anna Paris and Louisa Allen University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276251 Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand 1960-1986 Laurie Guy Victoria University…
Tagged with: Anna Paris, Gavin McLean, Heather Worth, Issue 59, Laurie Guy, Louisa Allen, Otago University Press, Spring 2002, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Boy’s Own snapshots, Hugh Roberts
Imperial Vistas Family Fictions Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 186940274X Last Poems Kendrick Smithyman The Holloway Press, $65, ISBN 095823132X It’s an interesting parlour game to speculate how New Zealand’s literary history might have changed had Kendrick Smithyman…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Holloway Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 59, Kendrick Smithyman, Spring 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review