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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…
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
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