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Issue 89 | Autumn 2010
Volume 20 | Number 1 | Issue 89 | Autumn 2010 Letters Andrew Wood: “Karl Wolfskehl (1869-1948)” (poem) Gregory O’Brien: “Low cloud, field of peonies, Martinborough” Ashleigh Young: Sam Hunt, Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life Kathryn Walls: Tessa Duder…
The other f-word, Rae Julian
Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives Kate McMillan, John Leslie and Elizabeth McLeay (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736109 Rethinking Women and Politics is based on a series of papers prepared for a Wellington workshop in…
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Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Moving deeper, John Horrocks
Mirabile Dictu Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 9781869404406 The Lustre Jug Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736086 Just This Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735911 One can expect that these new collections by three…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bernadette Hall, Brian Turner, Issue 89, John Horrocks, Michele Leggott, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The good, the bad and the epic, Louise O’Brien
As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 0143011677 Who Sings for Lu? Alan Duff Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869790585 The Adventures of Vela Albert Wendt Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869693633 Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver describes…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Emma Neale
Satellite Our six-year-old watches me dress as we talk about the planets, where rockets have landed, where people can’t go, how the surface of some distant Earth is unknowable at the moment and he frowns and stares with a mathematician’s…
Trials and lessons, Anne Else
A History of the “Unfortunate Experiment” at National Women’s Hospital Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 978186940435 The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, 1987-88 Joanna Manning (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781877242458 July 2008 marked…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 89, Joanna Manning, Linda Bryder
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Drawing-room stories, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $50.00, ISBN 9780143006510 Old South is a work that should be a welcome newcomer to the growing list of leading titles in New Zealand history. The book…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Issue 89, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The future world of 1881, John O’Leary
The Great Romance The Inhabitant; Dominic Alessio (ed) University of Nebraska Press, US$17.95, ISBN 9780803259966 At a time when James Cameron’s film Avatar is breaking box-office records, thanks largely to the hyper-vivid, computer-generated images of the planet Pandora provided by…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rivers, repetition and reproaches
Posted in Comment