Night Song for my Wife to Sing at Dawn, with Ducks (Back in Christchurch, fifty years after she left) Solo: My Wife I sleep while he wakes to write these thoughts for me. My thoughts sleep with me through…
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The importance of being Ernest Karen Hartshorn
The Awa Book of New Zealand Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $48.00, ISBN 9780958262996 I grew up in a household with a chemistry professor for a mother, a kitchen full of mysterious jars labelled “Experiment: Do Not Eat”, and…
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Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 84, Karen Hartshorn, Rebecca Priestley, Summer 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Reading the score, Peter Russell
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad Joanna Woods Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372551 Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born in Melbourne in 1866, his surname inherited from a German who came to England in the 18th century –…
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Tagged with: Charles Baeyertz, Issue 84, Joanna Woods, Otago University Press, Peter Russell, Summer 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Legions of the brave, Rhonda Pritchard
Serial Survivors: Women’s Narratives of Surviving Rape Jan Jordan The Federation Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781862876798 It could easily be a Jimmy McGovern script. A “good husband and father of three children”, with a secret lover on the side, stalks and…
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Tagged with: Issue 84, Jan Jordan, Rhonda Pritchard, Summer 2008, The Federation Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Long shot, Russell Campbell
Shot in New Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer Duncan Petrie Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869417918 Shot in New Zealand is a handsomely produced survey of the work of 12 New Zealand cinematographers, ordered alphabetically from Warwick…
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Tagged with: Duncan Petrie, Issue 84, Random House, Russell Campbell, Summer 2008
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
For their own good, Eric Medcalf
Unreasonable Force Beth Wood, Ian Hassall, George Hook with Robert Ludbrook Save the Children New Zealand, $25.00, ISBN 978047313095 Unreasonable Force documents the campaign leading to the repeal, in June 2007, of Section 59 of the 1961 Crimes Act. Section…
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Tagged with: Beth Wood, Eric Medcalf, George Hook, Ian Hassall, Issue 84, Robert Ludbrook, Save the Children New Zealand, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Up the line to death, Edmund Bohan
March to the Sound of the Guns Ray Grover Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460012 Ray Grover’s extremely well written novel March to the Sound of the Guns traces the harrowing years of the First World War, and the years immediately…
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Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 84, Longacre Press, Ray Grover, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
In or out, Hugh Roberts
Dream Boat: Selected Poems Tony Beyer HeadworX, $34.99, ISBN 9780473126520 Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404024 Mr Maui’s Monologues Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448270 In Continents Richard Reeve Auckland University Press,…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, HeadworX, Hugh Roberts, Issue 84, Paula Green, Peter Bland, Richard Reeve, Steele Roberts, Summer 2008, Tony Beyer
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review