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Bill Sewell: Subtracting the magic
Crik’ey: New and Selected Poems 1978‑1994 Cilla McQueen John McIndoe, $19.95 It is just 12 years since Cilla McQueen burst into the literary world with her collection Homing In. In that time she has published five volumes of poetry, of…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Cilla McQueen, Issue 13, John McIndoe, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A different planet, Pauline Engel
Breaking the Habit: Life in a New Zealand Dominican Convent 1956-67, Judith Graham, John McIndoe, $24.95 ‘Out in the world …’ used to be a common utterance in convent life. Unconsciously it implied that we inhabited a different planet. Judith…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, John McIndoe, Judith Graham, Sister Pauline Engel
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Yes, but who let it become so? Colin James
New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis: Reforming Our Political System Geoffrey Palmer, John McIndoe, $34.95 Electoral Behaviour In New Zealand Martin Holland (ed), Oxford University Press, $29.95 New Zealand Politics in Perspective (3rd Edition) Hyam Gold (ed), Longman Paul, $49.95 Sir…
Tagged with: Colin James, Geoffrey Palmer, Hyam Gold, Issue 7, John McIndoe, Longman Paul, Martin Holland, Oxford University Press, Summer 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Dinosaurs, doctors and daredevils, Dale Williams
Valley of the Dinosaurs: The Story of New Zealand’s Dinosaur Woman Joan Wiffen, Random Century, $19.95 (128 pp) When Joan Wiffen’s husband Pont became too ill to attend his geology night classes, this Hawke’s Bay housewife went in his place…
Tagged with: Cobber Kain, Dale Williams, Issue 7, Joan Wiffen, John McIndoe, Michael Burns, Neil Begg, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Big questions: part answers, James Norcliffe
Why Things Fall Chris Else, Tandem, $24.95 Love and War Elspeth Sandys, Vintage, $24.95 Jim’s Elvis Colleen Reilly, John McIndoe, $19.95 Why Things Fall at first glance seems quite a departure from Chris Else’s earlier ficciones, Dreams of Pythagoras (1981).…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Colleen Reilly, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 7, James Norcliffe, John McIndoe, Summer 1992, Tandem, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rich repertoire, Lawrence Jones
Tomorrow We Save the Orphans Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1992, $24.95 Last year as I was working through a huge box of anonymous entries to the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award competition, I came across an ill‑typed,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, John McIndoe, Lawrence Jones, Owen Marshall, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Maritime and general short reviews, Gavin McLean
Waitemata Ferry Tales Sally Fodie, Collins, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Sally Fodie was the first woman master of an Auckland harbour ferry. Waitemata Ferry Tales, her short collection of nautical anecdotes, shows that it was not easy to elbow her way…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Collins, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Gavin McLean, Gillian Polson, Godwit, James McNeish, Jim Tucker, John McIndoe, John Patterson, Longman Paul, Richard Rudman, Sally Fodie, Vince Scully
Posted in Health, Māori, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Health, Māori, Memoir, Natural History, Non-fiction, Sociology
Gavin McLean: Diverse and shorter reviews
The Great New Zealand Fossil Book: Pictures of Ancient Life in an Evolving Land Ron Brazier, Ian Keyes and Graeme Stevens, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 On Shaky Ground: a Geological Guide to the Wellington Metropolitan Region Graeme…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Cape Catley, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Gavin McLean, Graeme Stevens, Graham Hutchins, Hodder & Stoughton, Ian Keyes, Issue 4, John McIndoe, Ken Moore, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Paul Bensemann, Ron Brazier
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Do they have talent?: they sure have chutzpah, Anne French
Between these Hills Vivienne Plumb (ed), Between these Hills Collective, Wellington, 1991 White Feathers: An Anthology of New Zealand and Pacific Island Poetry on the Theme of Peace Terry Locke, Peter Low and John Winslade (eds), Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991,…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 1992, Between these Hills Collective, Hazard Press, Issue 4, John McIndoe, John Winslade, Michael Harlow, Peter Low, Terry Locke, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review