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Approaches to Writing, Ian Gordon
Committed to Print J E Traue, Victoria University Press, Wellington, $24.95 The Common Writer Robert Neale, Oxford University Press, Auckland, $29.95 Real Writing Rachel McAlpine, GP Publications, Petone, $24.95 These three books approach the craft of writing from three very…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Ian Gordon, Issue 6, J E Traue, Oxford University Press, Rachel McAlpine, Robert Neale, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
A poet’s story, Kevin Ireland
Curved Horizon: An Autobiography Ruth Dallas, University of Otago Press, MacIndoe, 1991, $29.95 I have only ever met Ruth Dallas once, and briefly, so I have no idea of what she is like to talk to, but she always comes…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Kevin Ireland, Otago University Press, Ruth Dallas, Spring 1992
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Very Much a ‘Wellington’ piece? Janet Wilson
Janet Wilson discussed Phil Mann’s ‘The Poverty Trap’ with Rev Dr Penny Jamieson, Bishop of Dunedin. Dr Jamieson has recently served on the People’s Select Committee which enquired into the effects of benefit cuts, and other aspects of the National…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Janet Wilson, Phil Mann, Rev Dr Penny Jamieson, Spring 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Believable magic and poignant realism, Celia Dunlop
See Ya, Simon David Hill, Mallinson Rendel, 1992, $19.95 Under the Rotunda James Norcliffe, Hazard Press, 1992, $14.95 David Hill’s exceptional first novel for younger teenagers shows all the assurance one would expect from this former high school teacher and…
Tagged with: Celia Dunlop, David Hill, Hazard Press, Issue 6, James Norcliffe, Mallinson Rendel, Spring 1992
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Autobiography through journalism, Rachel Lawson
Hidden Places: a memoir in journalism Michael King, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992, $27.95 Rachel Lawson reviews Michael King’s new book and discusses his work with him. Michael King has established his reputation through exploring what it means to be…
Tagged with: Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 6, Michael King, Rachel Lawson, Spring 1992
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Brian Turner
A Good Keen Man What is it that a donkey sees in a man?’ – Paul Durcan I am grubbing the bank, clearing snarls of grass, buttercup, dock and a few thistles that feign death, Roots like pasta twine…
Lively and perceptive, Elizabeth Marsden
The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse Shirley Tunnicliff (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Wellington, 1992, $24.95 Mary Hobhouse came to New Zealand, arriving in March 1859, as the wife of the first Anglican Bishop of the province of Nelson. She…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elizabeth Marsden, Issue 6, Mary Hobhouse, Shirley Tunnicliff, Spring 1992
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial — Issue 6
John Mansfield Thomson, who resigned from the Peppercorn Press in June, was the founding editor of New Zealand Books. The journal began as an idea of his; in making its first impact, and throughout the first 18 months of publication,…
Persevere, dear reader, Leonard Lambert
Best Beakerful Dean Farran Productions, Christchurch, 1991, $12 Missing Parts: poems 1977-1990 Alan Loney, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $19.95 Metaphysics for Fun Ross Fraser, Dragonfly Press, Auckland, 1991, $15 Waiheke Art and Poetry Pamela Reid (ed), P O Box 202,…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Dean Farran Productions, Dragonfly Press, Hazard Press, Issue 6, John Patterson, Jye Kang, Leonard Lambert, Nagare Press, Pamela Reid, Ross Fraser, Spring 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review