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Issue 93 | Autumn 2011
Volume 21 | Number 1 | Issue 93 | Autumn 2011 Editorial Letters Spiro Zavos: Redmer Yska, Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Paper Vincent O’Sullivan: Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Iain Sharp:…
Editorial – Issue 93
Creative tensions Few things are more mystifying than other people’s fascinations. Stamp collecting, astrology or devoted re-enactment of famous battle scenes appear, to the non-enthusiast, at best inexplicable, at worst embarrassing, silly and – to misapply a line from Monty…
Letters – Issue 93
Mulgan and malaria-induced depression In relation to Martin Edmond’s review of the new edition of John Mulgan’s Report on Experience (NZB, Summer 2010), one might suggest that the causes for Mulgan’s suicide in Cairo on 25 April 1945 could have…
Never the whole truth, Spiro Zavos
Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Paper Redmer Yska Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517303 During most of 1979 I lived with my family in Menton, in the south of France, trying to write the Great New…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 93, Redmer Yska, Spiro Zavos
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Good old immortal artists, Vincent O’Sullivan
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Charles Brasch, Denis Harold, Holloway Press, Issue 93, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Combing the romantic inheritance, Iain Sharp
Lives of the Poets John Newton Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736284 Goya Rules Harvey McQueen HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 9780473160401 Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing from Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404581 When…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2011, Harvey McQueen, HeadworX, Iain Sharp, Issue 93, John Newton, Murray Edmond, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Contextualising the Treaty, Bernard Cadogan
The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to Today Vincent O’Malley, Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito (eds) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404673 The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) rehabilitated the term “prejudice” to mean our…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2011, Bernard Cadogan, Bruce Stirling, Issue 93, Vincent O’Malley, Wally Penetito
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Harvey McQueen
Harvey McQueen 1934-2010 Harvey McQueen, who died in Wellington on December 25, was a poet, anthologist, reviewer, memoirist, educational journalist and author, past president of PEN (now New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc)), and literary gardener – a…
Dress sense and sensibility, Jane Westaway
The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781869621810 New Zealand Fashion Design Angela Lassig Te Papa Press, $120.00, ISBN 9781877385377 Fashion can signify everything from…
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Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Reaping what you sow, James Beattie
A History of Gardening in New Zealand Bee Dawson Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621568 Published on glossy paper with quality full-colour images, A History of Gardening in New Zealand is a most attractive book. Bee Dawson provides a whistle-stop overview…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Bee Dawson, Godwit, Issue 93, James Beattie
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
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