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An elegant and serious survey, Jonathan Else
Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90s Trish Clark and Wystan Curnow (eds), Longman Paul, $34.95 This volume is a refreshing challenge to several assumptions that have become the dead wood of art theory and scholarship in New Zealand, and,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Jonathan Else, Longman Paul, Spring 1992, Trish Clark, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Rich repertoire, Lawrence Jones
Tomorrow We Save the Orphans Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1992, $24.95 Last year as I was working through a huge box of anonymous entries to the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award competition, I came across an ill‑typed,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, John McIndoe, Lawrence Jones, Owen Marshall, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The voices of the film makers, Geoff Lealand
Film in Aotearoa New Zealand Jonathan Dennis and Jan Bieringa (eds), Victoria University Press, 1992, $49.95 University lecturers have become very aware of the price of new books, especially if they are likely to appear on set text or recommended…
Tagged with: Geoff Lealand, Issue 6, Jan Bieringa, Jonathan Dennis, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Publisher Profiles 4, Quentin Wilson of the Hazard Press
If Grant Fox plans to publish his memoirs, it is unlikely that the Hazard Press of Christchurch would be his saviour. If, however, he writes a series of black, All Black poetic meditations on the art of penalty kicking and…
Let’s moider mother, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Daughters of Heaven a play by Michelanne Forster Daughters of Heaven has already been performed at Court Theatre in Christchurch and Downstage in Wellington. Now its author, Michelanne Forster, has received a joint commission from Television New Zealand and New…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Juliet Hulme, Michelanne Forster, Pauline Parker, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Spring 1992
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Politics and Society, Gavin McLean
The 1990 Election: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand E M McLeay (ed), Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 1991 The 1990 election was the dullest in recent decades, with a battered, cynical electorate sensing the inevitability…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Department of Politics, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, E M McLeay, Gavin McLean, Geoffrey Moss, GP Publications, Issue 6, John Deeks, Judy McGregor, Longman Paul, Margie Comrie, Moss Associates, Nick Perry, Richard Rudman, Spring 1992, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Letters — Issue 6
Sculptures for Seville Among the many items in New Zealand books for June of this year which it has given me pleasure to read, mark and inwardly digest is the article on Sculptures for Seville by Tony Stones, written by…
Auckland fabric and flavour, Burwell Hunt
The Heart of Colonial Auckland 1865‑1910 Terence Hodgson, Random Century, Auckland, 1992, $29.95 This book takes a lively look at early Auckland, after the capital was transferred to Wellington in 1865. Concentrating on the lower end of the Queen St…
Tagged with: Burwell Hunt, Issue 6, Random Century, Spring 1992, Terence Hodgson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Is it really that bad? Anton D Meister
The Farming Fiasco David Yerex, GP Publications Ltd, 1992 ‘There is something absurd about the way the whole business of farming and food distribution was managed,’ writes David Yerex. In nine short chapters, Yerex covers a wide range of topics…
Tagged with: Anton D Meister, David Yerex, GP Publications Ltd, Issue 6, Spring 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology