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A very late Victorian, David Young
Charles Fleming: Environmental Patriot Mary McEwen Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 1877333239 Before the imposition of celebrity culture on the recent New Zealand telescape and its consort media, being famous in New Zealand was possibly even more of a problem…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Young, Issue 74, Mary McEwen, Winter 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A troubled solitary, Peter Russell
Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music Philip Norman Canterbury University Press, $55.00, ISBN 1877257176 What serious music-lover can imagine the world without Bach? Yet we might easily not have had him. For Johann Sebastian was the last of eight children,…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Douglas Lilburn, Issue 74, Peter Russell, Philip Norman, Winter 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Brave new globalising world, Paul G Buchanan
New Zealand in a Globalising World ed Ralph Pettman Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734956 The globalisation literature peaked at the end of the millennium, before the zero-sum logic of 9/11 subordinated its concerns to the security requirements of the…
Tagged with: Issue 74, Paul G Buchanan, Ralph Pettman, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Issue 74 Winter 2006
Volume 16 | Number 2 | Issue 74 | Winter 2006 Peter Russell: Philip Norman, Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music Editorial: “Love and Theft” Letters Lawrence Jones: Barbara Anderson, Collected Stories Bruce Wallace: Ian Hunter and Diana Morrow…
Heavy light industry, Paul Thompson
Domestic Architecture (1974-2005) Laurence Aberhart McNamara Gallery, $49.95, ISBN 0958243085 Light Wine Things Bill Culbert Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $29.95, ISBN 0908910444 Figure in the New Zealand Landscape Victoria Ginn OTS Publications, $39.95, ISBN 04760160X The Terrible Boredom of Paradise…
Tagged with: Bill Culbert, Derek Henderson, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Issue 74, Janet Bayley, John Pascoe, Lara Strongman, Laurence Aberhart, Mahara Gallery, McNamara Gallery, Mountain View Publishing, OTS Publications, Pacific Press, Paul Thompson, Victoria Ginn, Winter 2006
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Drawing in the air, Martin Edmond
The Desire of the Line: Ralph Hotere – Figurative Works Kriselle Baker Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403436 Pine Ralph Hotere and Bill Manhire Otakou Press, $800 (signed) $350 (unsigned), [no ISBN] In Dunedin in the mid-1990s, researching the Clairmont…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Manhire, Issue 74, Kriselle Baker, Martin Edmond, Otakou Press, Ralph Hotere, Winter 2006
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
It’s theatre, really, David Larsen
I’ve lost track of how often my ass has fallen asleep from boredom at literary festivals. I’ve lost track of how often I was supremely disappointed by a writer’s public persona. I used to be as earnest and serious and…
Enter a messenger, David Hill
Our English teacher in form five was a nice, ineffectual guy. He stuttered, so in typically compassionate boys’ school style, we called him “Static”. His discipline was pretty tenuous; some of the second-year fifth formers (this was the 1950s: score…
Poem — C K Stead
The rower Did grandfather Stead (she wants to know) row for Oxford or Cambridge – or (as sometimes asserted) for one then the other? These claims for him I long ago dismissed but she’s heard there’s a pewter mug…
Gold dust in the goose bath, Harry Ricketts
The Goose Bath: Poems Janet Frame (ed Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire) Vintage, $39.99, ISBN 1869417658 How The Goose Bath acquired its title is a good story and a characteristic one. The bath itself, as Frame’s niece Pamela…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Denis Harold, Harry Ricketts, Issue 74, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review