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Poem – David Howard
Now here Family snaps in leatherette albums prove “nothing lasts forever” (thanks Mum) as shadows crawl on their stomachs, the sun sinks in the West you never won. Looming into the tedium waiters understand the way nostrils understand incense,…
Through unfamiliar waters, Chris Maclean
Coasting: The Sea Lion and the Lark Neville Peat Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877135577 Two centuries ago, sealers and whalers came to New Zealand to hunt marine mammals for their oil and skins. Millions were slaughtered, most of them on…
Tagged with: Chris Maclean, Issue 50, Longacre Press, Neville Peat, October 2001
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Nose in a book, Patricia Grace
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…
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…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 50, October 2001, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, 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,…
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…
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
How to lose friends … Linda Burgess
Reviewing It’s been a good day. I read the last 20 pages, the treat I’d saved myself for the morning, then I got out of bed and wrote the review. Four hundred words in less than half an hour. The…
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…
Tagged with: Issue 50, Martin Bond, October 2001, Pat Hawthorne, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
Poem – W H Oliver
Blue Irises for Lauris Edmond After, appropriately, several false turnings and twice overshooting the mark I was there, on the shorn grass looking around at the hills uncertain, suitably too, which of the freshly turned patches of dirt embraced…