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Public chatter, Nelson Wattie
Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion Siobhan Harvey (ed) Cape Catley, $44.99, ISBN 9781877340307 Fifteen New Zealand writers interviewed by 15 more: 30 of them talking enthusiastically about their craft and themselves. In her introduction the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Cape Catley, Issue 93, Nelson Wattie, Siobhan Harvey
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925-2009) A death at the age of 84 cannot be called unexpected. But at any age the loss of a person close to us leaves an absence that will not be filled. In the case of…
Earshot rules, Nelson Wattie
Languages of New Zealand ed Allan Bell, Ray Harlow and Donna Starks Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734905 When I returned to New Zealand in 1989 after a quarter-century in Europe, I was naturally curious about how European languages fared…
Tagged with: Allan Bell, Donna Starks, Issue 74, Nelson Wattie, Ray Harlow, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
In the beginning was the word, Nelson Wattie
The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ed Tony Deverson and Graeme Kennedy Oxford University Press, $130, ISBN 0195584511 Lexicographers are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication, on 15 April 1755, of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, the book that made their profession…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Graeme Kennedy, Issue 69, Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, Tony Deverson
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction, Review
What minds make, Nelson Wattie
Beyond Wittgenstein’s Poker: New Light on Popper and Wittgenstein Peter Munz Ashgate Publishing Limited, $62.00, ISBN 0754640159 Working at the interface between literature and science, Gillian Beer recently asked in The Guardian: “How do you have new ideas? Language is…
Tagged with: Ashgate Publishing Limited, Issue 67, Nelson Wattie, Peter Munz, Spring 2004
Posted in Imprints, Review
Posted in Imprints, Review
Lucky dip, Nelson Wattie
After Bathing at Baxter’s: Essays and Notebooks Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734182 Structurally, as the subtitle suggests, this is a mixed bag, but on most pages most readers will find a sentence or two, a paragraph, an…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 55, Nelson Wattie, Spring 2001, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The freedom within, Nelson Wattie
Skylark Lounge Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733925 In Nigel Cox’s second novel, Dirty Work, Nif, a woman rebelling against the controlling hand of Hendy, the master of her world, has a message tattooed on her back –…
Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Nelson Wattie, Nigel Cox, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bovver boys
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