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World Music is Where We Found it: Essays by and for Allan Thomas Wendy Pond and Paul Wolffram (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736949 World Music is Where We Found it is not a collection of essays in…
New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History Diane Pivac (ed) with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald Te Papa Press, $85.00, ISBN 9781877385667 It is rare to find a non-fiction book that offers such a fascinating and comprehensive view of its…
Nga Moteatea: The Songs, Part 4: Collected by Apirana Ngata, translated by Hirini Moko Mead Jenifer Curnow and Jane McRae (eds) Auckland University Press, $22.50, ISBN 9781869403867 This is the final instalment in the series of Nga Moteatea: The Songs,…
Songs of a Kaumatua: Sung by Kino Hughes Mervyn McLean & Margaret Orbell Auckland University Press, $89.95, ISBN 1869402588 Songs of a Kaumatua was initiated by Kino Hughes, the remarkable personality at the centre of this book. Hughes was born…
A Gift to Shostakovich Shostakovich was a practical man. With the world at war, the rouble was hard to come by. He decided it was time to reassess the role of the artist. He joined the Leningrad Fire Department there…
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Paul Wolffram
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Reader In writing, I can’t help but remember with intimate indifference the vein that runs parallel to your neck. Entering bone just below and in front of your earlobe, where it’s riven with vein purpose beneath your lower row…
JAAM 7 Mark Pirie (ed) JAAM 8 Paul Wolffram (ed) $7.00, ISBN 1 733633 X Takahe 31 Nick Ascroft (ed) $0.00, ISBN 0 114413 8 Printout 21 Diane Brown (ed) $12.95, ISBN 1 1710438 Sport 18 and 19 James Brown…
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finding romance Just out of Hope waiting for a ride feeding the one horse in this town splitting flax until your fingers are sticky with sap and sick of dividing the hours a truck stops so you mount the tray…
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Paul Wolffram
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