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Issue 75 | October 2006
Volume 16 | Number 4 | Issue 75 | October 2006 Brian Turner: Geoff Park, Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Editorial: “The importance of being earnest” Letters Kerry Popplewell: “Reading The Master” (poem) Mary Varnham: Edmund Bohan,…
Must do better, Jon Johansson
Political Leadership in New Zealand Raymond Miller and Michael Mintrom (ed) Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 1869403584 One of my favourite leadership stories derives from the French Revolution. A self-styled revolutionary leader is enjoying a typically Parisian delight, his morning…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Jon Johansson, Michael Mintrom, Raymond Miller, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 75
The importance of being earnest Palmerston North writer Craig Harrison once glumly observed in an interview with one of us that, although the trend might be apparent only to someone who had read all 140 entries in Palmerston North’s Evening…
Cheery beery male bohemia, Julia Millen
The Bookmen’s Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 Chris Hilliard Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403622 Pat Lawlor’s “bookmen” or “frothblowers” were middle-aged men identifiable and, in a way, isolated not by such things as flamboyant attire, but by…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Hilliard, Issue 75, Julia Millen, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The sins of our fathers, Brian Turner
Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Geoff Park Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734573 In his excellent address to the New Zealand Landscape conference in 2003, included in Theatre Country under the title “A Moment in History”, Geoff Park…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Geoff Park, Issue 75, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Children’s fiction Wilderness tips, Kathryn Walls
The Tears of Harry Wakatipu Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 1877361437 Stories about individuals surviving in the wilderness have a long history. The Old Testament represents the wilderness as the place of escape from the oppression and corruption of…
Tagged with: Issue 75, Jack Lasenby, Kathryn Walls, Longacre Press, Spring 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Not to be sneezed at, Rae Varcoe
Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand Geoffrey W Rice University of Canterbury Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877257354 Survive Bird Flu and Other Disasters Bronwen King Hazard Press, $14.99, ISBN 1877393185 This week’s papers contain news of progress in…
Tagged with: Bronwen King, Canterbury University Press, Geoffrey W Rice, Hazard Press, Issue 75, Rae Varcoe, Spring 2006
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Palate cleansers, Paola Bilbrough
The Violinist in Spring Anna Smaill Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 08647350222 Hourglass Sue Wootton Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 187733877X The Devil in My Shoes Phil Kawana Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403525 Poetry is an elastic genre; there are…
Tagged with: Anna Smaill, Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Phil Kawana, Spring 2006, Steele Roberts, Sue Wootton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bubble jets of yearning, Murray Bramwell
Dante’s Heaven Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $30.00, ISBN 090894330X Beauty Sleep Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735111 The Gas Leak Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403568 In the fragile world of poetry publishing it is always…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Jan Kemp, Kate Camp, Murray Bramwell, Puriri Press, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review