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Issue 64 | August 2004
Volume 14 | Number 3 | Issue 64 | August 2004 Janet Hughes: Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air Editorial: Catering for the “common reader” Michael Laws: J Boston, S Church, S Levine, E McLeay & N Roberts (eds), New Zealand…
The novelist as poet, Nick Ascroft
Lazy Wind Poems Graham Lindsay Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869402855 Moody Bitch Stephanie Johnson Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 1869621050 Vanilla Wine Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734719 Summer on the Cote d’Azur Alistair Paterson HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 04730980244…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Geoff Cochrane, Godwit, Graham Lindsay, HeadworX, Issue 64, Nick Ascroft, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Ploughing a lone furrow, Julia Millen
Writers In Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand Writers Jenny Robin Jones Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403029 As Edward Gibbon Wakefield wrote in 1829: Literary men, men of science, philosophers, do not emigrate to new colonies where their…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Jenny Robin Jones, Julia Millen, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Keeping your hair on, Heather Murray
The Transformation Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734654 In Mutes and Earthquakes Bill Manhire gives his creative writing pupils a couple of pieces of advice: 1) write what you know, and 2) write what you don’t know. If,…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Heather Murray, Issue 64, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A truly adventurous coot, Brian Turner
John Pascoe Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing in association with The Whitcombe Press, $59.95, ISBN 0473094436 When I was a runty little joker, I often heard my father’s mother, Liz, describe people as “silly buggers”. John Pascoe would have…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 64, John Pascoe, Summer 2003, The Whitcombe Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Nasty things people do, Bernard Carpinter
The Temptations of Frederick Weld Michael Wall Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415930 Devil’s Apple Simon Snow Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415477 The Monstrance David McGill Silver Owl Press, $24.95, ISBN 095824510X Chicane Colin D Peel HarperCollins, $21.99, ISBN 1869504887 Alternative…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Black Swan, Colin D Peel, David McGill, HarperCollins, Issue 64, Ken Mitchell, Michael Wall, Paul Thomas, Silver Owl Press, Simon Snow, Summer 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Paradise or purgatory, Alan Knowles
John Kinder’s New Zealand Ron Brownson (with contributions from Peter Shaw, Michael Dunn and Roger Blackley) Godwit and Auckland Art Gallery, $49.95, ISBN 1869621077 John Kinder turned his back on taunts of religious inflexibility and charges of being a “stiff-necked”…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Auckland Art Gallery, Godwit, Issue 64, John Kinder, Michael Dunn, Peter Shaw, Roger Blackley, Ron Brownson, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
A wink to the grown-ups, Gavin Bishop
The Night Kite Peter Bland, illustrations by Carl Bland, Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783833 Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Graeme Gash, Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783752 Cat’s Whiskers – 4 Favourite Lynley Dodd Stories Lynley Dodd…
Tagged with: Carl Bland, Gavin Bishop, Graeme Gash, Issue 64, Lloyd Jones, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Peter Bland, Summer 2003
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
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Montana New Zealand Award 2004 winners
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