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Subtle use of myth, Nelson Wattie
Baby No-Eyes Patricia Grace Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 14 027993 8 In Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction {reviewed on p22], Otto Heim expresses surprise that writers like Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera have shocked…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Nelson Wattie, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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…
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
Reading with others, Nelson Wattie
Dem Dichter des Lesens: Gedichte für Paul Hoffmann: von Ilse Aichinger bis Zhang Zao Ed Hansgerd Delbrück Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, DM39.90, ISBN 3 89308 261 1 In a review of this book for the Swiss Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Angelika Overath…
Tagged with: Attempto Verlag, Hansgerd Delbrück, Issue 30, Nelson Wattie, Tübingen, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
‘And what happened next?’ Our stories, Nelson Wattie
Dove on the Waters Maurice Shadbolt David Ling Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0 908990 40 5 In 1959, having just left a provincial home town and moved to the astonishingly big city of Auckland, I was busy trying out various ways…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Issue 28, Maurice Shadbolt, Nelson Wattie, Summer 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 8
Yes, in spite of certain doomsayers, we are still here. There is a national need for a journal of this kind, and that has been perceived by some generous supporters. In this issue we are publishing the names of the…
Travelling through time, Nelson Wattie
The New Zealanders: A Story of Austral Lands J S C Dumont-d’Urville, transl Carol Legge, Victoria University Press, $39.95 From the excellent translations of Olive Wright, even readers who prefer to avoid the pitfalls of French grammar already know that…
Tagged with: Carol Legge, Issue 7, J S C Dumont-d'Urville, Nelson Wattie, Summer 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review