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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
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