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A gift worth unwrapping, John Dickson
The Falling: A Memoir Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402502 The simplest way to begin unwrapping the gift of this book is to start with the title: The Falling: A Memoir. Notice the first word, the definite article:…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Issue 50, John Dickson, October 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Better than cure, Robert Beaglehole
Health and Public Policy in New Zealand ed Peter Davis and Toni Ashton Oxford University Press, $55.00, ISBN 0195584171 This thoughtful and stimulating book, edited by two of New Zealand’s foremost scholars of health policy, deserves a wide audience both…
Tagged with: Issue 50, October 2001, Peter Davis, Robert Beaglehole, Toni Ashton
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
More show than substance, Jenny Pattrick
The Arts & Crafts Movement in New Zealand 1870-1940 Ann Calhoun Auckland University Press, $89.95, ISBN 1869402294 This is a large and handsome art book. Its hardcover, square format, copious illustrations and intelligent design suggest an honoured place on the…
Tagged with: Ann Calhoun, Auckland University Press, Issue 50, Jenny Pattrick, October 2001
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Poems in the classroom, Jo Kahl
Essential New Zealand Poems ed Lauris Edmond and Bill Sewell Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620879 Why is it that fictional teachers are always teachers of English? How many times do you see on television or at the movies teachers attempting to…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Godwit, Issue 50, Jo Kahl, Lauris Edmond, October 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Janet Charman
snowing down south warm breath breathed out of our bodies into the overnight air and condensed to an ice crust on the glass with a sodden mitten tip push plates of glitter lace across the surface to make an…
Editorial – Issue 50
No, not sour grapes People will always bitch about literary awards, and literary awards will always seem inherently unfair. This year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards will have thrown up their share of sniping, backbiting and dis-appointed egos. Some…
Controlled randomness, Kai Jensen
Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000 David Howard Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228591 I associate volumes of Collected Poems with poetic fame – long sequence of small books, most now out of print, requiring a full collection to satisfy the demands of…
Tagged with: David Howard, Issue 50, Kai Jensen, October 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Tough grace, Simone Drichel
Dogside Story Patricia Grace Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0141004193 In her long career as a writer of both novels and short fiction, Patricia Grace has shown remarkable consistency in her publishing pattern: invariably, the publication of a collection of short stories…
Tagged with: Issue 50, October 2001, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Simone Drichel
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
KM’d & KO’d, Alison Gray
Recollecting Mansfield Margaret Scott Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620763 It is hard to know whether Katherine Mansfield would have been delighted, amazed or appalled at the industry that has evolved since her death, at the academic careers she has sustained, at…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Godwit, Issue 50, Margaret Scott, October 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 50
Cock of the walk Heather Murray’s review of Curnow’s The Bells of St. Babel’s (in your August 2001 issue) is a kind of negative tribute to Curnow’s pre-eminent position on the New Zealand literary scene. How many poets in their…