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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 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
Singing out, William Brandt
Chronicle of the Unsung Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403118 Martin Edmond, son of Lauris, played a role in two iconic cultural phenomena of my formative years in 70s and 80s Auckland – he wrote the screenplay for…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Martin Edmond, Summer 2003, William Brandt
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
But is it art? Jenny Nicholls
Paste Up – A Century of New Zealand Poster Art Hamish Thompson Godwit, $39.95, ISBN 1869621042 In February, Auckland Mayor Banks found himself compelled to tell immigrants not to spit in public. “Many of them come from countries where spitting…
Tagged with: Godwit, Hamish Thompson, Issue 64, Jenny Nicholls, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Lucky to be alive, Ann Beaglehole
A Strange Outcome – The Remarkable Survival Story of a Polish Child John Roy-Wojciechowski and Allan Parker Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 014301904X About 800 Polish refugees, 733 of them children and Most of them orphans, sailed into Wellington harbour in…
Tagged with: Allan Parker, Issue 64, John Roy-Wojciechowski, Penguin Books, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Painted ladies, Christine Johnston
Paint Your Wife Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019066 “He had seen one thing and thought the other. He’d made the mistake of seeing what he expected to see, what he was used to seeing”– this quotation from the back…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 64, Lloyd Jones, Penguin, Summer 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Emma Neale
Newborn His mouth a small red hearth we crowd around drawn like man-moths to its light and warmth. When its suck and flicker at the breast stops we blow cool breath on the soft black coal of his head…
Riding the beast, Michael Laws
New Zealand Votes: The General Election of 2002 ed J Boston, S Church, S Levine, E McLeay & N Roberts Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734689 I was on the baños in Baños, Ecuador when the 2002 election results were…
Tagged with: E M McLeay, E McLeay, Issue 64, J Boston, Michael Laws, N Roberts, S Church, S Levine, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Another coffee-table paperweight, Mark Amery
New Zealand Painting: a concise history Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $99.99, ISBN 1869402979 There’s a story that’s been hanging around a while now like a bad smell. Once upon a time, the story goes, painting died. Bloated and fat,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Mark Amery, Michael Dunn, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2004
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