Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories Janet Frame Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567707 The title story of this posthumous collection touches a memory almost 30 years old: in 1984 reading An Angel at My Table, the second volume…
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Life in the bush, by the bay, Dougal McNeill
Speaking Frankly: The Frank Sargeson Memorial Lectures 2003-2010 Sarah Shieff (ed) Cape Catley, $31.99, ISBN 9781877340277 Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, $162.00, ISBN 9780230277731 It was a…
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Tagged with: C K Stead, Cape Catley, Christine Cole Catley, Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Gerri Kimber, Issue 98, Janet Wilson, Katherine Mansfield, Lawrence Jones, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Wells, Sarah Shieff, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 2012
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Lecture, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Woman alone, Lawrence Jones
The Captive Wife Fiona Kidman Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869416864 The title of The Captive Wife and the setting, New Zealand and Australia of the 1930s, lead us to expect a colonial captivity narrative, and it is present in Betty…
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Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 70, Lawrence Jones, Vintage, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Local and special, Stuart Murray
Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932-1945 Lawrence Jones Victoria University Press, $49.94, ISBN 0864734557 Nationalism, and especially cultural nationalism, inhabits a position in contemporary culture that seems peculiarly complex. Easy to identify, yet…
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Tagged with: Issue 63, Lawrence Jones, Spring 2003, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Fingerprints over everything, Lawrence Jones
Red Shoes Elizabeth Smither Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 18569621034 The Sea Between Us Elizabeth Smither Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018590 Reviewing You’re Very Seductive William Carlos Williams 25 years ago, Lauris Edmond complained that in the poems we did not “feel that…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Elizabeth Smither, Godwit, Issue 61, Lawrence Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Variations on the familiar, Lawrence Jones
Ellie and the Shadow Man Maurice Gee Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0141004177 Responses to Maurice Gee’s Ellie and the Shadow Man, his fourteenth adult novel and his twenty-sixth book, will probably vary between the extremes marked by two of my…
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Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Issue 49, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Four to tango, Lawrence Jones
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance Lloyd Jones Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 014308183 No reader of Lloyd Jones’s last novel, The Book of Fame, Winner of the Deutz medal in 2001, would have been able…
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Tagged with: Issue 54, Lawrence Jones, Lloyd Jones, Penguin Books, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review