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Pious historians, pioneer ancestors, Rose Lovell-Smith
Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of North Canterbury Janet Holm, Hazard Press, $59.95 The Voyage of the ‘May Queen’ Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, price not given In 1859 George Rutherford bought the lease of a largish…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Janet Holm, Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Raising Questions, Paul Millar
Witi Ihimaera: A Changing Vision Umelo Ojinmah, University of Otago Press, $24.95 I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame Judith Dell Panny, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 Signs are that New Zealand literature is in good…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Judith Dell Panny, Otago University Press, Paul Millar, Umelo Ojinmah, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Nature’s nurture, Phillip Mann
Natural Healing in New Zealand Chris Cooper, Random House, $24.95 Whether it be the result of successive governments tinkering with the National Health system or the much heralded coming of the Age of Aquarius, the fact is that in…
Tagged with: Chris Cooper, Issue 9, Phillip Mann, Random House, Winter 1993
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Map of the Heart, Lee Wallace
Musica Ficta Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, $24.95 Now, to the scandal of men, women are prophesying. So runs the epigraph of Anne Kennedy’s Musica Ficta, though quite what scandal the novel involves remains a puzzle. In so far…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Lee Wallace, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem — Bill Sewell
Interactive Virtually alive stare through the terminal screen instead of the window. Clouds and light the water slopping about the harbour do not move with the speed or anything like the obedience of electronic impulses. A dance of fingers…
Travelling through fiction, Charles Ferrall
The Good Tourist and the Laughing Cadaver Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, 1993, $24.95 Visiting a library in Timbuktu, an actual town in the central west African country of Mali, the Australian writer Murray Bail is told by an Islamic…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 9, Michael Gifkins, Vintage, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bombasts and Jinglists, Mark Williams
The New Place; The Poetry of Settlement in New Zealand, 1852-1914 Harvey McQueen, Victoria University Press, $29.95 New Zealand poetry begins with Ursula Bethell. Before her there were scribblers, versifiers, poetasters, bombasts, jinglists and hobbyists, but there were no…
Tagged with: Harvey McQueen, Issue 9, Mark Williams, Victoria University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Writing and revenge, Colleen Reilly
A Distraction of Opposites Sandra Arnold, Hazard Press, Christchurch, $24.95 The front cover illustration of A Distraction of Opposites is a painting by Heather Busch entitled ‘Look at the Pattern.’ At first glance, what you see is ordinary objects…
Tagged with: Colleen Reilly, Hazard Press, Issue 9, Sandra Arnold, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poetic Grammars, Mary Paul
How to Talk Andrew Johnston, Victoria University Press, $19.95 Piki Ake! Robert Sullivan, Auckland University Press, $19.95 I was given these two books to review with the instruction that I should look at them in the wider context of…
Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Mary Paul, Robert Sullivan, Victoria University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review