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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…
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
Cabinet of curiosities, Roger Blackley
Icons Nga Taonga: From the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Te Papa curatorial team Te Papa Press, $79.99, ISBN 090901096X On a recent visit from his Tasmanian hideaway, art museum guru Daniel Thomas expressed amazement that Te Papa’s…
Tagged with: Issue 64, Roger Blackley, Summer 2003, Te Papa curatorial team, Te Papa Press
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
An end to the “musket wars”, Rawiri Taonui
Taua – Musket wars, land wars, or tikanga? Warfare in Maori society in the early nineteenth century Angela Ballara Penguin, $59.95, ISBN 0143018892 Reviewing R D Crosby’s The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-iwi Conflict 1806-1845 (New Zealand Books, March…
Tagged with: Angela Ballara, Issue 64, Penguin, Rawiri Taonui, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Earthquakes and adulteries, John Horrocks
Good Luck Anna Livesey Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 086473459X The Adulterer’s Bible Cliff Fell Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734603 Both these collections of poetry come from recent graduates of Victoria University’s creative writing programme. The publisher is Victoria…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Cliff Fell, Issue 64, John Horrocks, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Here’s looking at you, kid, John O’Connor
Gallery: A Selection Mark Pirie Salt Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 1876857242 Toku Tinihanga: Selected Poems 1982-2002 Michael O’Leary HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473090066 Walking the Land Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877270520 We live in the age of celebrity. This has…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 64, John O’Connor, Kevin Ireland, Mark Pirie, Michael O’Leary, Salt Publishing, Summer 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Taking to the air, Janet Hughes
Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air City Gallery/Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734727 As I shelved Rosalie Gascoigne: Plain Air among my treasured collection of exhibition catalogues, it set me thinking about the reasons we buy catalogues, and the various pleasures they…
Tagged with: City Gallery, Issue 64, Janet Hughes, Rosalie Gascoigne, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 64
Catering for the “common reader” The October 1991 issue of New Zealand Books reviewed 6 titles. Twelve years and 57 issues later, the figure was almost exactly the same: NZB October 2003 covered 38 new books. So what’s changed? Certainly…
A spirit intense and rare, Doug Munro
Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings ed Roger Robinson Streamline, $34.95, ISBN 0958210624 Everyone knows about Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), described by a contemporary as “a spirit intense and rare” and immortalised by Samoans as Tusitala (the teller of…
Tagged with: Doug Munro, Issue 64, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson, Streamline, Summer 2003
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review
Posted in Literature, Pacific, Review