The Diogenes Club (In memory of Bill Sewell) Yes, you will have received an invitation, join the others in the heavy armchairs of the Strangers’ Room. Sherlock, in an upswing mood which analysts today would recognise, will dominate the…
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Light reading, dark lives, Margie Thomson
The Denniston Rose Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415612 This highly readable historical novel has already had a big thumbs-up from readers, and it’s not hard to understand why. It’s a darkly engaging story that almost constitutes a new…
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Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 59, Jenny Pattrick, Margie Thomson, Spring 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 59
Hobson’s choice, Bryan Gilling
Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi Paul Moon David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0908990839 The Treaty of Waitangi often appears to have sprung forth, fully formed, from William Hobson’s pen on 6 February 1840. Many…
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Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, David Ling Publishing, Issue 59, Paul Moon, Spring 2002
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Truth vs the good story, Laura Kroetsch
Barbed Wire Between Us: A story of love and war Derek Round Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869415248 Last of the Whalers: Charlie Heberley’s Story Heather Heberley Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561903 In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer’s Search for…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Derek Round, Gondwanaland Press, Heather Heberley, Issue 59, Laura Kroetsch, Penguin, Random House, Robin Allardyce, Spring 2002, Susan Price, Tessa Duder
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
But is it a poem? Harvey McQueen
8 Stages of Grace Diane Brown Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415256 The blurb to Sarah Quigley’s latest volume of poems says: people often ask her if there’s a connection between her prose and her poetry but she doesn’t think so. There…
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Tagged with: Diane Brown, Harvey McQueen, Issue 59, Spring 2002, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Horace at Kapiti, Roger Robinson
Early in the second of the “Four Letters in Verse” that make up Alistair Te Ariki Campbell’s Poets in Our Youth, the poet is recalling for Harry Orsman how as a boarder at Weir House, I found myself in the…
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