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Issue 74 | August 2006
Volume 16 | Number 3 | Issue 74 | August 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…
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
It was hell, Gavin McLean
Diary of a Kiwi Soldier in World War II Cecil Coughlan (ed Garrie Coughlan) Reed, $19.99, ISBN 1007900104X No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone ed John Crawford (with Peter Cooke) Reed, $49.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 74, Winter 2006
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Not quite Camelot, Simon Upton
For the Record: Lange and the Fourth Labour Government ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 1877399108 The hold-a-conference, publish-a-book industry continues in full swing with the appearance of For the Record: Lange and the Fourth Labour Government. This volume,…
Tagged with: Dunmore Publishing, Issue 74, Margaret Clark, Simon Upton, Winter 2006
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Carol’s eggs Each girl child contains her eggs. Carol keeps under her bed one dozen in a carton, safe from plundering friends and flatmates. Eggs make a meal, a girl is eggs. Poached or scrambled, eggs are quick. In…
Earshot rules, Nelson Wattie
Languages of New Zealand ed Allan Bell, Ray Harlow and Donna Starks Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734905 When I returned to New Zealand in 1989 after a quarter-century in Europe, I was naturally curious about how European languages fared…
Tagged with: Allan Bell, Donna Starks, Issue 74, Nelson Wattie, Ray Harlow, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Tousled and tart, Emma Neale
London Notebook Mark Pirie Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $24.95, ISBN 1869420586 Wild Daisies: The Best of Bub Bridger Bub Bridger Mallinson Rendel, $34.95, ISBN 0908783973 Your Secret Life Harry Ricketts HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 0476101300 Presenting Pirie’s new collection as…
Tagged with: Bub Bridger, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Emma Neale, Harry Ricketts, HeadworX, Issue 74, Mallinson Rendel, Mark Pirie, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Picture books, the cunning genre, Norman Bilbrough
Papa’s Island Melanie Drewery, illustrations Fifi Colston Reed, $16.99, ISBN 1869485947 Nobody’s Dog Jennifer Beck, illustrations Lindy Fisher Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437284 Haere – Farewell, Jack, Farewell Tim Tipene, illustrations Huhana Smith Huia, $16.99, ISBN 1869691040 Uncle Jack Kate De…
Tagged with: Ben Brown, Fifi Colston, Gavin Bishop, Helen Taylor, Huhana Smith, Huia, Issue 74, Jacqui Colley, Jean Prior, Jennifer Beck, Kate De Goldi, Lindy Fisher, Melanie Drewery, Norman Bilbrough, Pamela Allen, Puffin, Reed, Scholastic, Tim Tipene, Trapeze, Winter 2006
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Portrait of an irritating lady, Isa Moynihan
Vibrant with Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell ed Peter Whiteford Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864735049 Editor Peter Whiteford, a senior lecturer in the English Department at Victoria University, has done Ursula Bethell proud with this generous selection of…
Tagged with: Isa Moynihan, Issue 74, Peter Whiteford, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review