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Poem — Jan FitzGerald
McLaren Falls in this place the river rises to meet us & rungs of spray swing from bank to sky ducks pedal down to Freshwater Atlantis in this place indefinable grapnels to granite & lake-loving cypress tai chi in the…
You had to be there, Simon Upton
Creating a National Spirit – Celebrating New Zealand’s Centennial ed William Renwick Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734751 How many people can recall New Zealand’s 150th birthday? And of those who can, what is it that is most vividly remembered?…
Tagged with: Issue 70, Simon Upton, Victoria University Press, William Renwick, Winter 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Yes, Minister, Bob Gregory
The Tie That Binds: The Relationship Between Ministers and Chief Executives Colin James Institute of Policy Studies and the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, $25.00, ISBN 0908935676 Public service reform was not a major election…
Tagged with: Bob Gregory, Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 70, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Winter 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dealing with the fallout, Nick Matwiyoff
Nuclear New Zealand: Sorting Fact from Fiction Andrew McEwan Hazard, $39.99, ISBN 187727058X In July 2002, on the 36th anniversary of the first French nuclear tests on the Mururoa Atoll, John Doom of Papeete’s Association Mururoa e Tatou announced that…
Tagged with: Andrew McEwan, Hazard, Issue 70, Nick Matwiyoff, Winter 2005
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Science
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Science
Take me there now, Garth Baker
A Tramper’s Journey Mark Pickering Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333174 Ride: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand The Kennett Brothers The Kennett Brothers, $39.95, ISBN 095834907X Just this week, someone I know who cannot bear to be more…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Garth Baker, Issue 70, Mark Pickering, The Kennett Brothers, Winter 2005
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
One-night stands, Christine Johnston
Next to Gods: A Cleaner’s Story Don Franks Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251487 On Getting Old Kevin Ireland Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251479 On Going to the Movies Peter Wells Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251460 I have…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Don Franks, Four Winds Press, Issue 70, Kevin Ireland, Peter Wells, Winter 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Cracks in the world, Kathryn Walls
Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1869504852 Margaret Mahy’s 1995 novel The Other Side of Silence presents itself as the autobiography of its female hero (whose name, too, is “Hero”). At the end, however, the first…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 70, Kathryn Walls, Tessa Duder, Winter 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
One of the survivors, Tony Simpson
A Radical Writer’s Life Dick Scott Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790009765 The society in which I grew up largely no longer exists, immolated in the “reforms” of the 80s and 90s. It would be wrong to consider that an entirely bad…
Tagged with: Dick Scott, Issue 70, Reed, Tony Simpson, Winter 2005
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Women on top, Linda Burgess
Posted in Comment