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Making it and making it up, C K Stead
Life as a Novel – A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt, Volume I, 1932-1973 Philip Temple David Ling, $45.00, ISBN 9781927305447 Recently, I have been writing an autobiography and consequently hunting out old letters. One I found, written to Kay from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, C K Stead, David Ling, Issue 125, Maurice Shadbolt, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A swarm of poets, Airini Beautrais
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems Philip Temple and Emma Neale (eds) Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780947522469 New Zealand poetry in English has a long and complex tradition of politically-charged work: from colonial balladeers, through 20th-century heavyweights like Allen…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Emma Neale, Issue 120, Otago University Press, Philip Temple, Summer 2017
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“Shocking the model” John McCrystal
Five Minutes Alone Paul Cleave Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572312 The Legend of Winstone Blackhat Tanya Moir Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775537755 MiSTORY Philip Temple Font Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 978047328204 You could argue that the artistic imagination is like one of those…
Tagged with: Font Publishing, Issue 110, John McCrystal, Paul Cleave, Penguin, Philip Temple, Tanya Moir, Vintage, Winter 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Once were mountaineers, Julia Millen
The Mantis Philip Temple $8.00, Vertebrate Publishing e-book, ISBN 9781906148881 Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas Brian Wilkins Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578489 Old climbers and bold climbers, but no old bold…
Tagged with: Brian Wilkins, Issue 108, Julia Millen, Otago University Press, Philip Temple, Vertebrate Publishing
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Happenstance, Martin Edmond
Chance is a Fine Thing Philip Temple Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869419851 In his preface to Chance is a Fine Thing, Philip Temple – writer, mountaineer, campaigner, explorer and historian – essays a distinction between memoir and autobiography. The latter, he…
Tagged with: Issue 88, Martin Edmond, Philip Temple, Summer 2009, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
World-famous in New Zealand, Philip Temple
Heaphy Iain Sharp Auckland University Press, $64.99, ISBN 9781869404215 The one-name title for this book confidently assumes this is someone we all know. After all, there can be only one Heaphy – Charles – because in the history of our…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Iain Sharp, Issue 85, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The universe and everything, Philip Temple
Waimarino County and Other Excursions Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869403911 Phone Home Berlin – Collected Non-fiction Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864735676 The revival of the essay in book form continues compensating, to our applause,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Martin Edmond, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Home truths, Philip Temple
The Accidental Anthropologist Michael Jackson Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 187736147X The epigraphs an author chooses may be taken as a guide to his intent, and Michael Jackson chose two. From Rilke, he derives: “We are born, so to speak, provisionally,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Longacre Press, Michael Jackson, Philip Temple
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Home and away. Paula Morris
I Am Always With You Philip Temple Random, $34.99, ISBN 1869417739 The Viewing Platform Ian Wedde Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 9780143020929 Local writers Stevan Eldred-Grigg (Kaput!) and Tina Shaw (The Black Madonna) have found imaginative inspiration in wartime Berlin, and now…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 76, Paula Morris, Philip Temple, Random, Summer 2006
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Radiant living, Philip Temple
Sir Edmund Hillary, An Extraordinary Life Alexa Johnston Penguin Viking, $59.95, ISBN 0670045543 Just when you thought there was nothing else to be recorded or said about Sir Edmund Hillary, this lavish compendium of a life appears, arising from the…
Tagged with: Alexa Johnston, Autumn 2006, Issue 73, Penguin Viking, Philip Temple, Sir Edmund Hillary
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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