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Poetic hair, C K Stead

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

C K Stead recalls encountering Rupert Brooke’s The Complete Poems. During WWII my sister Norma, two and a half years my senior, acquired a “pen-friend” in Rugby, England. I don’t recall the friend’s name, but we sent her family food…

Tagged with: C K Stead, Issue 76, Summer 2006
Posted in Imprints

“My mother was a writer”, Kathryn Walls

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Kathryn Walls looks at the influence of Lyndahl Chapple Gee’s writing on her son’s work. Maurice Gee clearly admired his mother as a person. But although he has often noted that she was a writer, he has always stopped short of…

Tagged with: Issue 76, Kathryn Walls, Maurice Gee, Summer 2006
Posted in Byline

Lost writers revisited, Elizabeth Webby

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 Jane Stafford and Mark Williams Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735227 In this excellent reassessment of an important phase of New Zealand’s literary and cultural history, Jane Stafford and Mark Williams challenge previous views…

Tagged with: Elizabeth Webby, Issue 76, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams, Summer 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Heroics, Ken Catran

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Best and Bravest: Kiwis Awarded the Victoria Cross Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson HarperCollins, $17.99, ISBN 1869505239 Soldier in the Yellow Socks: Charles Upham, Our Finest Fighting Soldier Janice Marriott HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 1869505697 War Zones Helen Beaglehole Steele Roberts,…

Tagged with: Colin Richardson, Glyn Harper, HarperCollins, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 76, Janice Marriott, Ken Catran, Steele Roberts, Summer 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War