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Issue 72 | March 2006
Volume 16 | Number 1 | Issue 72 | March 2006 Margaret Mahy: Janet Frame (illustrations David Elliot), Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of Dreams: The Story…
Love and damage, Margie Thomson
A Short History of Paradise Norman Bilbrough Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020358 Kissing Shadows Renée Huia, $34.99, ISBN 1869692039 How often can one say of local fiction, and mean it, that it’s an absolute delight to read? Known as a writer…
Tagged with: Huia, Issue 72, Margie Thomson, Norman Bilbrough, Penguin, Renée, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – John O’Connor
Rex purveyor of tall tales & veteran of Gallipoli, the Western Front. carpenter & model maker, smoker of ‘roll-yr-owns’, thin as a rake, he grew only asparagus for an anaemic looking wife who loved the races & left him &…
The ones that didn’t get away, David Hill
How to Catch a Fish Kevin Ireland Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 0958253862 How to Drink a Glass of Wine John Saker Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 095823582X Discussing Aldous Huxley’s On the Margin in his 2002 biography of that now untrendy…
Tagged with: Awa Press, David Hill, Issue 72, John Saker, Kevin Ireland, Summer 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Making it, Bernadette Hall
A Box of Bees Emily Dobson Victoria University Press, $17.95, ISBN 0864735103 As It Was in the Beginning Stu Bagby Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877338540 Raw Places John Horrocks Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877338451 Who can deny the bliss of…
Tagged with: Bernadette Hall, Emily Dobson, Issue 72, John Horrocks, Steele Roberts, Stu Bagby, Summer 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Kiwi ways of dying, Abby Letteri
Last Words: Approaches to Death in New Zealand’s Cultures and Faiths ed Margot Schwass Bridget Williams Books, $29.99, ISBN 1877242349 The primary school my daughter attends has one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse populations in the New Zealand…
Tagged with: Abby Letteri, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 72, Margot Schwass, Summer 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Peeling away from the margins Janet Wilson
Red Leaves Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869403460 Fire-penny Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372066 Resistance Meg Campbell Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $16.95, ISBN 1869420578 This bouquet of verse demonstrates the flourishing talent of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Diana Bridge, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Issue 72, Janet Wilson, Meg Campbell, Otago University Press, Summer 2005
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Forging the real, Louise O’Brien
Hibiscus Coast Paula Morris Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019767 The Fossil Pits Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735081 With her debut novel, Queen of Beauty, Paula Morris won both the 2001 Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing and the…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Uneasy rider, Bernard Carpinter
One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro Tim Hanna Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019740 You’ve seen the movie, now read the book. In the case of the film The World’s Fastest Indian and this book, that is the better order…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Issue 72, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Hanna
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The quality question, Chris Else
Posted in Comment