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Issue 61 | December 2003
Volume 13 | Number 5 | Issue 61 | December 2003 Geoff Chapple: Stephen Venables, Everest – Summit of Achievement; George Band, Everest – 50 years on Top of the World; Sir Edmund Hillary, High Adventure: Our Ascent of…
Domestic pastoral, Harry Ricketts
Summer Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734522 Jenny Bornholdt’s poems could be called “domestic pastoral”. This is one of the strongest – though often undervalued – lines in New Zealand poetry. You can trace it from Ursula Bethell’s…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Because it’s still there, Geoff Chapple
Everest – Summit of Achievement Stephen Venables Allen & Unwin, $79.95, ISBN 1741140668 Everest – 50 Years on Top of the World George Band Collins, $49.95, ISBN 0007147481 High Adventure: Our Ascent of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary Allen & Unwin,…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 2003, Christine Gee, Collins, Corgi Books, Garry Weare, Geoff Chapple, George Band, Issue 61, Margaret Gee, Rider, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stephen Venables
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The missionary position, Laurence Jenkins
Slow Water Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734506 In 1836, William Yate, clergyman and missionary, aged 3, set sail from London for his beloved Waimate North, the New Zealand mission which had been founded in 1823 by the…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Biting irreverence, David Eggleton
Dog: Poems C K Stead Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402863 Amongst our intelligentsia the bald dome of C K Stead looms large. In the identity parade of contemporary New Zealand culture, he is one of those controversialists, one of…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Eczema and ampersands, Janet Hughes
Sing-song Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869402952 Electric Yachts Tony Beyer Puriri Press, $26, ISBN 0908943253 Nonsense Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734514 Imagine a sequence of 80-odd poems centred on a case of eczema. That’s…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Obituary — Dennis McEldowney
Dennis McEldowney (1926-2003) In the 1991 edition of Who’s Who in New Zealand, Dennis listed two “recreations” – “gardening” and “looking about”. On Monday this week, a few hours before he died, Dennis was still “looking about”. Most of…
Cooking, droning and drowning, Robin Corney
Delicious Nicky Pellegrino Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415582 Death of a Conscience Heather Marshall HarperCollins, $21.99, ISBN 869504569 Oyster Catcher Greg Billington Reed, $29.95, ISBN 0790009013 Nicky Pellegrino’s Delicious is a debut novel that draws in her own background (Italian…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Remind me where we are now, Nicholas Reid
Secret City Vivienne Plumb Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 090856189X Shot Sarah Quigley Virago, $34.95, ISBN 1860499635 What country am I in here? Characters get ideas from watching “5.30 With Jude”, there’s a reference to “old Maori guys”, and one of…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review