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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…
Getting by with a little help, Nelson Wattie
It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on their Friendships ed Jane Westaway and Tessa Copland Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135828 We’re unlikely to find a better definition of “friend” than the one in Lennon and McCartney’s famous lines:…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jane Westaway, Longacre, Tessa Copland
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
On the whale’s back, Miro Bilbrough
Miro Bilbrough on Whale Rider the movie I was unusually wary, seeing Whale Rider for the first time. was in the editing stages of a short feature film, a peculiarly sensitive time to see someone else’s film. Sequestered away…
Poem – James Brown
Letter Sir – I am very distressed by what can only be described as the lamentable state of poetry in this country today. In the past we have enjoyed a fine tradition of inspired, well-crafted verse from the likes…
Breastfeeding and rhododendrons, Julia Millen
In a Strange Garden: the life and times of Truby King Lloyd Chapman Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018795 A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907-2000 Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869402901 Sir Truby King died…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Julia Millen, Linda Bryder, Lloyd Chapman, Penguin, Truby King
Posted in Biography, Health, History, Non-fiction
Posted in Biography, Health, History, Non-fiction
Poem – Jenny Bornholdt
December Last days of December broccoli squeaking on the stove and your hair – it’s a tidal wave crashing forwards as you bend to open the envelope you sent from Fielding, in 1971, to your father – in it,…
Steady as she goes, Colin James
Holyoake’s Lieutenants ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 8864694369 I came across Norm Shelton a day or two after Jack Marshall sacked him in February 1972 at the end of the Holyoake era. He had a pile of complimentary…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 61, Keith Holyoake, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Writers and Readers Week line-up
Richard Ford, Jenny Diski, Alistair MacLeod and Clive James are among overseas writers expected to appear during next year’s New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week. With them will be poets Mark Doty and Sharon Thesen, fiction writers Etgar Keret,…
Editorial – Issue 61
Copycat crime A few decades ago a newspaper ran in full without permission a crucial chapter of an enthusiastically awaited political book on the eve of its publication. I remember this for the copyright dispute it provoked more than for…
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In search of the “good” writer, Elspeth Sandys
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