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Home and away, Nicholas Reid
Dead People’s Music Sarah Laing Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869791087 Footnotes to Sex Mia Farlane Viking, $37.00, ISBN 9780670917938 Mother’s Day Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 9780143011255 I am male, middle-aged, heterosexual and monogamous. The first two terms make me different…
Tagged with: Issue 87, Laurence Fearnley, Mia Farlane, Nicholas Reid, Penguin, Sarah Laing, Spring 2009, Viking, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Nicholas Reid
Once to the Rocks “Once to the rocks,” said Bill and took a dive as neat and arc-like as a well-cast line.– He left no ripple. I blundered behind with belly-flop and splashes, awkwardly. So in his element, smooth…
Into the labyrinth, Nicholas Reid
The Crocus Hour Charlotte Randall Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143008927 Whatever criticism you make of Charlotte Randall’s novels, you cannot say that she has no sense of place. In The Crocus Hour, as in her four earlier novels, she ventures…
Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, Issue 83, Nicholas Reid, Penguin Books, Spring 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
New Zealand a Christian country? Paul Morris
Shaping a Colonial Church: Bishop Harper and the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch 1856-1890 Colin Brown, Marie Peters and Jane Teal (eds) Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 1877257443 James Michael Liston: A Life Nicholas Reid Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864735367 …
Poem – Nicholas Reid
Back Door High as the handle, a garden viewed square by square Through the stained-glass edging of a grandmother’s door. Yellow. Like a cheap sucked lollipop makes the sunshine rowdy the leaves and grass sickly. Yellow for running butter,…
Obituary — Ronald Holloway
Ronald Holloway (1909-2003) Ronald Holloway was born in England in 1909, came to New Zealand as a child, and died in an Auckland nursing home on 30 October 2003. There can be few non-writers in New Zealand who had…
Remind me where we are now, Nicholas Reid
Secret City Vivienne Plumb Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 090856189X Shot Sarah Quigley Virago, $34.95, ISBN 1860499635 What country am I in here? Characters get ideas from watching “5.30 With Jude”, there’s a reference to “old Maori guys”, and one of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Cape Catley, Issue 61, Nicholas Reid, Sarah Quigley, Virago, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Myth-busting, Nicholas Reid
A Sort of Conscience – The Wakefields Philip Temple Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402766 Myth one about the Wakefields (enshrined in colonial textbooks of long ago). The Wakefields were a great founding family of New Zealand, and Edward Gibbon…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Nicholas Reid, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Rescue mission, Nicholas Reid
A Fair and Just Solution – a History of the Integration of Private Schools in New Zealand Rory Sweetman Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864694148 Once upon a time there were, theoretically, two school systems in New Zealand. There were state…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 55, Nicholas Reid, Rory Sweetman, Spring 2001
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
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