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Work in progress — David Geary
Up the river David Geary comes to grips with Mark Twain in Maoriland. I have two wives. They met on a Canadian canoe trip down the W(h)anganui River in 2002. It was not a good scene. A Canadian canoe is…
Obituary — Richard King
Richard King (1948-2008) The New Zealand book world lost one of its most able and respected publishers with the sudden and premature death earlier this year of Richard King, managing editor of Canterbury University Press. Over the past decade CUP…
Poem – Jan Hutchison
John Clare’s Later Life (to see a crow fly in the thin blue line) Years in Northampton Asylum where light thickened at his window days when he shut out vowels and the letter y Nbd wll wn m each…
Cooked up, Stuart Murray
The Long Forgetting: Post-colonial Literary Culture in New Zealand Patrick Evans Canterbury University Press, $34.50, ISBN 9781877257698 Approximately halfway through Patrick Evans’ study comes a paragraph that, upon reflection, more or less sums up the way the book works. The…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 83, Patrick Evans, Spring 2008, Stuart Murray
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Brian Turner
High Windows If you want to compliment someone call him grounded. If you want to do him a favour pray that there’s more order than chaos, more love than hatred and resentment in his life, that transfiguration and redemption are…
All aboard, Don Aimer
Trainland: How Railways Made New Zealand Neill Atkinson Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869419059 I’ve always loved trains. A job in Timaru once in the days of steam had me driving regularly to Oamaru. North of the Waitaki River the main…
Tagged with: Don Aimer, Issue 83, Neill Atkinson, Random House, Spring 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Good dog! Norman Bilbrough
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $30.00, ISBN 9781877423147 Beginner writers often think that writing a picture book must be easy. But a story – any story – needs drafts and more drafts before it is ready…
Tagged with: Issue 83, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Norman Bilbrough, Spring 2008
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Pebbles at the window, Elizabeth Smither
Posted in Comment