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Issue 90 | Winter 2010
Volume 20 | Number 1 | Issue 90 | Winter 2010 Letters Obituary: J C Sturm Martin Edmond: Gordon Brown, Towards a Promised Land: On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon Linley Boniface: “Frind of All Animals” (Imprints)…
Poem – John Newton
The Assassination of Kenneth Koch At old St Mark’s, in the bowels of the Bowery, he reads from his mighty poem for peace, wherein are contained, by his own estimation, all the Pleasures of Peace that there could possibly…
Big schtick, Garth Baker
Antipodes Mark Price Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460364 Twisting Throttle America Mike Hyde HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507473 Sleeping with the Dead Marko Cunningham Random House, $37.99, ISBN 9781869792701 These books cover three different kinds of travel experience – a focus…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Mark Price, Marko Cunningham, Mike Hyde, Random House, Winter 2010
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Judith Dell Panny
Quake As cracks spring wide along Wellington’s spine Slabs lift or lower, earth slides away Detaching the green cap, eroding embankments While towers subside, reshape, re-align Slabs lift or lower, earth slides away Runnels re-route and streams find new fissures…
Good returns, Cilla McQueen
Table Talk Kevin Ireland Cape Catley, $25.99, ISBN 9781877340246 Africa Alistair Paterson Puriri Press, $36.00, ISBN 9780908943364 The Lakes of Mars Chris Orsman Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404086 The Worm in the Tequila Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00,…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Cape Catley, Chris Orsman, Cilla McQueen, Geoff Cochrane, Ian Wedde, Issue 90, Kevin Ireland, Puriri Press, Victoria University Press, Winter 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The man who wished to be other, C K Stead
No Fretful Sleeper – A Life of Bill Pearson Paul Millar Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 97818690404192 It must have been 40 years ago that Bill Pearson told me an anecdote about his first days at school. When he reached…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bill Pearson, C K Stead, Issue 90, Paul Millar, Winter 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Public work, private life, Grace Millar
Looking For Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke Maureen Birchfield Canterbury University Press, $69.95, ISBN 9781877257803 Writing a biography of someone with broad interests and a long and well-documented life is a real challenge. Lives are messy and sprawl without…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Elsie Locke, Grace Millar, Issue 90, Maureen Birchfield, Winter 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Subtle conversation, Michael Sharkey
The Victims of Lightning Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 0780864736222 When this commission came, I’d recently re-read Manhire’s poetry from Malady to Lifted and his prose – the clever fables of The New Land, somehow redolent of Diderot’s…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 90, Michael Sharkey, Victoria University Press, Winter 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Stirring times, Edmund Bohan
Collision Joanna Orwin HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507787 Banquo’s Son T K Roxborogh Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202493 The historical novel worldwide has possibly never enjoyed such a golden age as at present, with such remarkably diverse writers of quality as…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Joanna Orwin, Penguin Books, T K Roxborogh, Winter 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review