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Twinkle, twinkle, David Hill
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…
Letters — Issue 68
Sense and intention Thanks to Chris Else for the review of my latest novel Tu (NZB, December 2004). However a mistake has been made. In the third-to-last paragraph of the review there has been a misquotation from the book. The…
Pa-men and boys, Linley Boniface
Katherine Mansfield’s Men ed Charles Ferrall and Jane Stafford Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society in association with Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 187733846X “The idea of sitting and waiting for a husband is absolutely revolting and it really is the attitude of…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 68, Jane Stafford, June 2005, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, Linley Boniface, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Planting the evidence, Steven Price
Justice With Both Eyes Open Marc Alexander Hazard Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877270601 The cover of Marc Alexander’s new book exploring the criminal justice system features a laudatory remark taken from criminologist Greg Newbold’s foreword. “Refreshingly free of the mindless ideological…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 68, June 2005, Marc Alexander, Steven Price
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Standing up for it, Redmer Yska
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,…
Tagged with: Ashley Heenan, Exisle Publishing, Issue 68, June 2005, Max Cryer, Redmer Yska, School of Music and University of Canterbury
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The power and the gory, Ginette McDonald
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…
Tagged with: Ginette McDonald, Ian Pryor, Issue 68, June 2005, Peter Jackson, Random House
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial — Issue 68
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…
Surviving, Joan de Hamel
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…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Issue 68, Jack Lasenby, Joan de Hamel, June 2005, Ken Catran, Longacre, Lothian, Mallinson Rendel, Michaela Sangl, Scholastic, Shirley Corlett
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Poem — Leonard Lambert
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…