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Likely stories, James C Raymond
Falling for Science: Asking the Big Questions Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877361722 Imagine yourself in Egypt in the third century BC. You believe the earth is round – what else would cause ships’ masts to appear before their…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, Issue 81, James C Raymond, Longacre Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Science
Wholemeal, Louise O’Brien
Drybread Owen Marshall Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 9781869419196 Drybread is Owen Marshall’s third novel, adding to an already rich body of work. His last novel, Harlequin Rex, won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction in 2000. Indeed,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Louise O’Brien, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary — Ruth Dallas
Ruth Dallas (1919-2008) Dunedin writer Ruth Dallas was born in Invercargill into a working-class settler family, which informed her writing. She published 20 books, mainly poetry and books for children. Her most recent poetry collection, The Joy of a Ming…
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Naming a telescope (for David Hill) What to call your new telescope? Presuming like a ship it must be female though its shape suggests otherwise and the way you aim it definitely male the fiddling to set it up,…
From Pine Hill to elsewhere, Dougal McNeill
Geography for the Lost Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869403874 Made for Weather Kay McKenzie Cooke University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 9781877372490 84-484 Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735584 Cold Snack Janet Charman Auckland University…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dougal McNeill, Geoff Cochrane, Issue 81, Janet Charman, Kapka Kassabova, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters – Issue 82
Apology Awa Press have quite rightly pointed out to me that I did indeed give them permission to quote some of my words on the preceding Radio New Zealand series of talks as a blurb for their The Transit Of…
The art of display, Paul Thompson
Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display Conal McCarthy Te Papa Press, $69.95, ISBN 9781877385339 Mana taonga mana tangata. Exhibiting Maori is primarily an academic book. Originally published by Berg, an imprint of Oxford International Publishers, its style…
Tagged with: Conal McCarthy, Issue 81, Paul Thompson, Te Papa Press, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 82 | Winter 2008
Volume 18 | Number 2 | Issue 82 | Winter 2008 Letters Elizabeth Smither: “Naming a Telescope” (poem) James C Raymond: Bernard Beckett, Falling for Science: Asking the Big Questions Catharina van Bohemen: Fiona Kidman, At the End of…
Illustrating the gaps between words, Raymond Huber
Rats! Gavin Bishop Random House, $30.00, ISBN 978869419028 Tahi: One Lucky Kiwi Melanie Drewery, illustrations Ali Teo and John O’Reilly Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869419301 To the Harbour Stanley Palmer Lopdell House Gallery, $35.00, ISBN 9780958228442 Snake and Lizard Joy…
Tagged with: Ali Teo, Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press, Issue 81, Jenny Cooper, John O’Reilly, Joy Cowley, Lopdell House Gallery, Melanie Drewery, Random House, Raymond Huber, Scholastic, Stanley Palmer, Winter 2008
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review