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…
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Obituary — Richard King
Poem – Jan Hutchison
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…
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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
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…
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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…
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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
Elizabeth Smither urges writers to recognise the rewards of rejection. I once spoke to a writer who assured me he had never had a rejection slip. Years later I met an editor who told me he had received frequent submissions…
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