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Salt and vinegar, Penelope Todd
Humming Rachel McAlpine Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270970 The Black Madonna Tina Shaw Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019880 Two books by New Zealand women: one is a full-immersion Kiwi experience, the other set in Germany and America, and bears no obvious…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 72, Penelope Todd, Penguin, Rachel McAlpine, Summer 2005, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Charms and riddles, Kathryn Walls
Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children ed Rachel McAlpine (illustrated David Elliot) Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869414853 Like its evidently popular predecessor, this anthology is invitingly presented. Hard covers announce that it is meant to be kept for long-term…
Tagged with: David Elliot, Issue 55, Kathryn Walls, Rachel McAlpine, Spring 2001
Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
No need to practise the steamy bits, Anne French
The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s romance writers talk to Rachel McAlpine Hazard Press $19.95 ISBN 1 87716136 5 Almost everyone thinks they can be a Mills and Boon author. The formula novel is short (55,000 words these days), the plots…
Poem – Rachel McAlpine
From ‘Doshisha Diary’ May 12 In the night a baby summer rolls on to my bare back like a sumo tiger … all warm fur, and feel the weight of it. May 27 Hot rain. Everybody fears it except the…
Approaches to Writing, Ian Gordon
Committed to Print J E Traue, Victoria University Press, Wellington, $24.95 The Common Writer Robert Neale, Oxford University Press, Auckland, $29.95 Real Writing Rachel McAlpine, GP Publications, Petone, $24.95 These three books approach the craft of writing from three very…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Ian Gordon, Issue 6, J E Traue, Oxford University Press, Rachel McAlpine, Robert Neale, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
From melodrama to professionalism, Sunny Amey
The Land of the Moa George Leitch, edited by Adrian Kiernander, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990, $19.95 Tomasi: For Islands Far Away Harrison Bray Playmarket, Wellington, 1990, $16.95 Power Play Rachel McAlpine, Playmarket, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 Billy Vincent O’Sullivan, Victoria…
Tagged with: Adrian Kiernander, George Leitch, Harrison Bray Playmarket, Issue 2, Playmarket, Rachel McAlpine, Sunny Amey, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1991
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review