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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…
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
Upstairs, downstairs, Anna Cottrell
Voice and Vision: A History of Broadcasting in New Zealand, Volume Two Patrick Day Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402332 If you think this book will illuminate what you imagine goes on behind the screens when the show’s over…
Editorial – Issue 47
Valuing writers One of the many reasons New Zealand Books exists is for the sake of writers. Of course, we exist for readers too. Without our readers, both the specialist ones and those who have a general interest in New…
Poem – Mark Pirie
Worlds for Jenny Yesterday in the street a young girl stopped me to ask if I’d caught a ball from the new stadium yet. And I smiled back at her knowing that was her world. I thought about Dunedin,…
Generous to a fault, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jane Stafford, Lauris Edmond, March 2001, Oxford University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Apocalypse Soon, David Hill
Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Diana Noonan, Graeme Lay, Issue 47, Longacre, March 2001, Paula Boock, Penguin, Random House
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Strangers in a strange land, Chris Else
A Spider-Web Season and The Transfer Station Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161799 Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …” This line from Yeats is the epigraph to Russell Haley’s first book, The Walled Garden (1972). It…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 47, March 2001, Russell Haley
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A response from the publishers
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