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Yearning and erasure, John Horrocks
He’s so MASC Chris Tse Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 1781869408879 The Facts Therese Lloyd Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561810 Dark Days at the Oxygen Café James Norcliffe Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776560837 (more…)…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Tse, Issue 123, James Norcliffe, John Horrocks, Spring 2018, Therese Lloyd, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Getting the news out, James Norcliffe
Surviving 7.8: New Zealanders Respond to the Earthquakes of November 2016 Phil Pennington and Radio New Zealand HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541103 New Zealanders, Cantabrians in particular, have, over the last half-dozen years, become reluctant experts in earthquakes. We have…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 120, James Norcliffe, Phil Pennington, Radio New Zealand, Summer 2017
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Cliquety-clique? David Hill
Twice Upon a Time James Norcliffe Puffin NZ, $17.00, ISBN 9780143770671 Into the White Joanna Grochowicz Allen and Unwin, $19.00, ISBN 9781760293659 Taupo Blows! Doug Wilson Bateman, $19.00, ISBN 9781869539672 Those accusations from a few months back – the ones…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Bateman, David Hill, Doug Wilson, Issue 119, James Norcliffe, Joanna Grochowicz, Puffin NZ, Spring 2017
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Not settled yet, Claudia Jardine
Christchurch Ruptures Katie Pickles BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321292 Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston (eds) Clerestory Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780992251758 When the time came to decide what I would do after…
Tagged with: BWB Texts, Claudia Jardine, Clerestory Press, Issue 116, James Norcliffe, Joanna Preston, Katie Pickles, Summer 2016
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
History lessons, James Norcliffe
Monkey Boy Donovan Bixley Scholastic, $16.50, ISBN 9781775431862 Trouble in Time Adele Broadbent Scholastic, $19.00, ISBN 9781775432265 Monkey Boy opens with a prologue designed, no doubt, to catch its intended audience of younger, and not so young, boys. It’s 1804…
Tagged with: Adele Broadbent, Donovan Bixley, Issue 111, James Norcliffe, Scholastic, Spring 2015
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
eSensual readings, Murray Bramwell
Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe and Harry Ricketts (eds) Godwit, $45.00, ISBN 9781775534594 So what makes poems essential? In their introduction to this most appealing collection, the three editors mull over the problem…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 109, James Norcliffe, Murray Bramwell, Siobhan Harvey
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Myth making, Angelina Sbroma
The Enchanted Flute James Norcliffe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781869799267 Heart of Danger Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781869795436 In The Enchanted Flute, James Norcliffe (author of the celebrated Loblolly Boy series) makes classical myth the source and…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Fleur Beale, Issue 99, James Norcliffe, Longacre, Random House, Spring 2012
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
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