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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…
Tagged with: Annamarie Jagose, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Laurence Jenkins, Victoria University Press
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, C K Stead, David Eggleton, Issue 61
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…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Janet Hughes, Nick Ascroft, Puriri Press, Tony Beyer, Victoria University Press
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Black Swan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Heather Marshall, Issue 61, Nicky Pellegrino, Reed, Robin Corney
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Cape Catley, Issue 61, Nicholas Reid, Sarah Quigley, Virago, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
This might sting a bit, Simon Upton
Continuity Amid Chaos: Health Care Management and Delivery in New Zealand ed Robin Gauld University of Otago Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276510 Snakes and Ladders: The Pursuit of a Safety Culture in New Zealand Public Hospitals Peter R Roberts Institute of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Health Services Research Centre, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 61, Kevin Dew, Otago University Press, Peter R Roberts, Robin Gauld, Simon Upton
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Fingerprints over everything, Lawrence Jones
Red Shoes Elizabeth Smither Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 18569621034 The Sea Between Us Elizabeth Smither Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018590 Reviewing You’re Very Seductive William Carlos Williams 25 years ago, Lauris Edmond complained that in the poems we did not “feel that…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Elizabeth Smither, Godwit, Issue 61, Lawrence Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Children’s books winners
The young adult novel Right Where It Hurts by David Hill has won this year’s New Zealand Library and Information Association Esther Glen Medal. The Elsie Locke Medal for non-fiction went to Andrew Crowe’s Which New Zealand Insect, and The…