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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…
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,…
Tagged with: Issue 50, Laurence Jenkins, October 2001, Peter Wells, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
“Considerate autocrats”, Bill Sewell and Harry Ricketts
Editing Writers can get paranoid about editors. We know; we’re writers ourselves. Like many others, we’ve imagined editors to whom we’ve submitted work flicking through it in a spirit somewhere between malice and mischief. A number of masochistic scenarios spring…
Rubble and trouble, Philip Temple
Kaput! Stevan Eldred-Grigg 1stBooks Library, $50 approx, ISBN 1587215543 Before me I have a postcard of a 1952 poster published by the Office of Information of the German Democratic Republic. A Berlin working woman stands behind a pile of bricks,…
Tagged with: 1stBooks Library, Issue 50, October 2001, Philip Temple, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review