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Issue 63 | June 2004

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Volume 14 | Number 2 | Issue 63 | June 2004 Jock Phillips: Michael King – The historian who opened our eyes (essay) Fleur Adcock: “Historian dies in fiery crash” (poem) Editorial Megan Hutching: Susan Jacobs, Fighting with the…

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Poem – C K Stead

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Takapuna (Janet Frame 1924-2004) So, old friend, you’ve come to it at last (Ron Mason’s line, and now an echo of Yeats!). How does it feel to feel nothing? No one will ask you to read, no unmarked sheet…

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Poem – Gregory O’Brien

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Dominion From the morning’s politicians as they are delivered unto us shrink-wrapped and bouncing across the lawns of Hataitai deliver us, o lord—from the brash and unhumble who fall face-first, and whom daily we extract from mulch and puddle,…

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Poem – Jan Kemp

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Staunch (i.m. Michael King 1945 – 2004 & Maria Jungowska 1949 – 2004) I’d have wished you a gentler death in keeping with generosity & deft, liquid speech, yours of right, Michael, not this bizarre fireballing out, though your friend…

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Satiric barbs and Danish cross-stitch, Margot Schwass

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Change of heart Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press, $27.95, ISBN 0864734662 yet another ghastly christmas Shonagh Koea Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 186941568X These new novels by Barbara Anderson and Shonagh Koea sit comfortably together, like well-chosen china teacups. Their worlds have…

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What’s on the menu, Shelagh Duckham Cox

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Songs from the Violet Café Fiona Kidman Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414055 In his 1984 essay “Reflections on Exile”, Edward Said remarks: Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least…

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An equal say, Barry Gustafson

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Adventures in Democracy. A History of the Vote in New Zealand Neill Atkinson University of Otago Press in association with the Electoral Commission, $39.95, ISBN 1877276588 Organised society depends on the existence of governments. What those governments should do and…

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Local and special, Stuart Murray

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932-1945 Lawrence Jones Victoria University Press, $49.94, ISBN 0864734557 Nationalism, and especially cultural nationalism, inhabits a position in contemporary culture that seems peculiarly complex. Easy to identify, yet…

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Outside the shadow, Kim Worthington

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Janet Frame The extensive media attention given to Janet Frame’s death in January is utterly fitting for one who may well be our country’s greatest writer and is certainly our most distinguished, having been seriously considered for the Nobel Prize…

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Family gatherings, Isa Moynihan

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Lily’s Cupola Bronwyn Tate University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276596 Bloom Kelly Ana Morey Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018922 Joybird Rosemary Wildblood David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0998990901 The three-generation novel has always been popular with women writers. Besides Lily’s Cupola, Bloom…

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