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How to Gaze at the Southern Stars Richard Hall Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250995 Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels…
God Defend New Zealand: A History of the National Anthem Ashley Heenan School of Music and University of Canterbury, $29.95, ISBN 0908718098 Hear Our Voices We Entreat: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s National Anthems Max Cryer Exisle Publishing, $29.99,…
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Ashley Heenan,
Exisle Publishing,
Issue 68,
June 2005,
Max Cryer,
Redmer Yska,
School of Music and University of Canterbury
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History,
Music,
Non-fiction,
Review,
Sociology
Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot Lloyd Jones, illustrations by Timon Maxey Four Winds Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958251495 From Weta to Kauri: A Guide to the New Zealand Forest Janet Hunt, photographs by Rob Lucas…
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Andrew Crowe,
Barbara Murison,
Four Winds Press,
Issue 68,
Jennifer Beck,
Lloyd Jones,
Penguin Books,
Random,
Rob Lucas,
Scholastic,
Summer 2004,
Timon Maxey
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Biography,
Children,
Natural History,
Non-fiction
Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings Ian Pryor Random House, $39.95, ISBN 1869415558 An Irish psychic told me recently that I had a strong connection with Peter Jackson. Whacko, I thought. Bring it on. A…
The dispraise problem Witty essays by Iain Sharp and Paula Morris in recent issues of Landfall (May and November 2004) have again brought up that perennial hot topic – literary reviewing in New Zealand – and prompted us to…
Walking Lightly Fleur Beale, illustrations by Michaela Sangl Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783906 My Story: A New Song in the Land – The Writings of Atapo, Paihia, c 1840 Fleur Beale Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869436113 Robert Moran – Private Ken…
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Issue 68,
Jack Lasenby,
Joan de Hamel,
June 2005,
Ken Catran,
Longacre,
Lothian,
Mallinson Rendel,
Michaela Sangl,
Scholastic,
Shirley Corlett
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Children,
Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
Community Service Any inland town a washed-out afternoon, life is not quite a gift, more like a sentence – community service of a sort. Pushing prams getting the kids off to school, wondering what to do about the fucking…
Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters ed Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $59.99, ISBN 0909010072 The first thing you notice about this handsomely produced volume from Te Papa Press is the title Woollaston, in large red letters, running down the…
Books in Maori: An Annotated Bibliography, 1815-1900/ Nga Tanga Reo Maori: Nga Kohikohinga Me Ona Whakamarama compiled in the Alexander Turnbull Library by Phil Parkinson and Penny Griffith Reed, $120, ISBN 079000951X New Zealand has traditionally lacked “bibliodensity”. This term…
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Alexander Turnbull Library,
Hilary Stace,
Issue 68,
June 2005,
Penny Griffith,
Phil Parkinson,
Reed
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History,
Language,
Literature,
Māori,
Review
Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective David Grant Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877338214 Welcome to the Campus of Struggle: Dispatches from the International Student Academic Front 1999-2004 David Cohen Dunmore…
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David Cohen,
David Grant,
Dunmore Press,
Dunmore Publishing,
Harvey Molloy,
Issue 68,
June 2005,
Steele Roberts
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Education,
History,
Non-fiction,
Review