Recently, when I called in to see my brother, we looked through a box of books and other items that were all in some way associated with our father. My father grew up in a small community where I often…
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Hard Knox, Robert Onopa
Black Oxen Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734093 From the first paragraph of Elizabeth Knox’s previous novel, Vintner’s Luck, the reader enters as complete and rich an alternative world as exists in contemporary fiction. It is a world…
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Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 50, October 2001, Robert Onopa, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not simply red, Stephanie de Montalk
An Explanation of Poetry to my Father Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $14.95, ISBN 18877228443 Hats Jenny Powell-Chalmers HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473071487 Chrome Paula Green Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869402405 Last year my husband’s Uncle Alec, a retired Edinburgh bricklayer,…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Glenn Colquhoun, HeadworX, Issue 50, Jenny Powell-Chalmers, October 2001, Paula Green, Steele Roberts, Stephanie de Montalk
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Interaction and empowerment, Lorna Dyall
Mauri Ora: the Dynamics of Maori Health Mason Durie Oxford University Press, $44.95, ISBN 019558418X Recently I attended an international conference in Auckland, focusing on gambling. This was an important conference, for it was planned to link with the review…
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Tagged with: Issue 50, Lorna Dyall, Mason Durie, October 2001, Oxford University Press
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Wine, wisdom and so on: Four founders look back at the beginnings of New Zealand Books
Retrospective Shelagh Duckham Cox We met first in Lauris Edmond’s house at 22 Grass St in the middle of 1990 and the six of us – Lauris, John Mansfield Thomson, Pat Hawthorne, Vincent O’Sullivan, Martin Bond and Shelagh Duckham…
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Tagged with: Issue 50, Martin Bond, October 2001, Pat Hawthorne, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
No need to be noisy, Bill Sewell
Lucky Table Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734069 Vincent O’Sullivan is not – and has never been – one of our noisier poets. He’s not known, like Denis Glover or James K Baxter, for extravagant behaviour; or, like…
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Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 50, October 2001, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
How to lose friends … Linda Burgess
Bent on purgation, Laurence Jenkins
Long Loop Home: A Memoir Peter Wells Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869414683 The body language in the photograph forecasts much about the story between the covers of Peter Wells’s Long Loop Home. A Memoir. Three figures pose on a deserted beach,…
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Tagged with: Issue 50, Laurence Jenkins, October 2001, Peter Wells, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review