The Ballad of Fifty-one Bill Sewell HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473092540 A couple of years ago I wrote a favourable review of Bill Sewell’s long poem Erebus (1999). He rang and thanked me after he read it; part of what he…
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In command of his talent, Lydia Wevers
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, HeadworX, Issue 58, Lydia Wevers, Winter 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Writing us up, Tom Brooking
Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940271S New Zealand’s extreme isolation has always made it attractive to travellers. As the most remote destination on the globe it has always held…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Lydia Wevers, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Out of the picture, Lydia Wevers
Lady Travellers: The Tourists of Early New Zealand Bee Dawson Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0141004150 Lady Travellers is a successor to Bee Dawson’s Lady Painters, which appeared in 1999, and makes me wonder if there’s a series planned – Lady…
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Tagged with: Bee Dawson, December 2001, Issue 51, Lydia Wevers, Penguin Books
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Erebus in the frame, Lydia Wevers
“Plant imperialism”, Lydia Wevers
Lady Painters: the flower painters of early New Zealand Bee Dawson Penguin, $69.95, ISBN 0 670 88651 3 In 1981 the Royal Commonwealth Society disposed of 40 “exquisite” watercolours, found bound into a volume of New Zealand Company papers entitled…
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Tagged with: Bee Dawson, Issue 41, Lydia Wevers, Penguin
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Mucking in, Bill Sewell
Travelling to New Zealand ed Lydia Wevers Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0195584112 It was literally the sort of pub where the conversation stops when a stranger walks in. Only there were just three customers, plus the proprietor, in…
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Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 47, Lydia Wevers, March 2001, Oxford University Press
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Light that fire, Lydia Wevers
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 eds Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 869402308 A thick black-and-white book with a beautiful cover illustration by Patrick Hanly taken from the second issue of Freed, Big Smoke…
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Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, December 2000, Issue 46, Lydia Wevers, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Mapping the citadel, Lydia Wevers
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature in English Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds) Oxford University Press, $79.95 ISBN 0 19558348 5 The publication of this book should have been timed for the millennium. If there is going to…
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Tagged with: Issue 36, Lydia Wevers, Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, Roger Robinson
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review