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Believable magic and poignant realism, Celia Dunlop
See Ya, Simon David Hill, Mallinson Rendel, 1992, $19.95 Under the Rotunda James Norcliffe, Hazard Press, 1992, $14.95 David Hill’s exceptional first novel for younger teenagers shows all the assurance one would expect from this former high school teacher and…
Tagged with: Celia Dunlop, David Hill, Hazard Press, Issue 6, James Norcliffe, Mallinson Rendel, Spring 1992
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Autobiography through journalism, Rachel Lawson
Hidden Places: a memoir in journalism Michael King, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992, $27.95 Rachel Lawson reviews Michael King’s new book and discusses his work with him. Michael King has established his reputation through exploring what it means to be…
Tagged with: Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 6, Michael King, Rachel Lawson, Spring 1992
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Brian Turner
A Good Keen Man What is it that a donkey sees in a man?’ – Paul Durcan I am grubbing the bank, clearing snarls of grass, buttercup, dock and a few thistles that feign death, Roots like pasta twine…
Lively and perceptive, Elizabeth Marsden
The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse Shirley Tunnicliff (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Wellington, 1992, $24.95 Mary Hobhouse came to New Zealand, arriving in March 1859, as the wife of the first Anglican Bishop of the province of Nelson. She…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elizabeth Marsden, Issue 6, Mary Hobhouse, Shirley Tunnicliff, Spring 1992
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 6
John Mansfield Thomson, who resigned from the Peppercorn Press in June, was the founding editor of New Zealand Books. The journal began as an idea of his; in making its first impact, and throughout the first 18 months of publication,…
Persevere, dear reader, Leonard Lambert
Best Beakerful Dean Farran Productions, Christchurch, 1991, $12 Missing Parts: poems 1977-1990 Alan Loney, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $19.95 Metaphysics for Fun Ross Fraser, Dragonfly Press, Auckland, 1991, $15 Waiheke Art and Poetry Pamela Reid (ed), P O Box 202,…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Dean Farran Productions, Dragonfly Press, Hazard Press, Issue 6, John Patterson, Jye Kang, Leonard Lambert, Nagare Press, Pamela Reid, Ross Fraser, Spring 1992
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Robust, brilliant, rather difficult, Heather Roberts
Disputed Ground, Robin Hyde, Journalist Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline Matthews (eds), Victoria University Press, $34.95 A book of selected journalism seems an unlikely place to make a serious assessment of a writer. Journalism is regarded as ephemeral, lost in musty…
Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Heather Roberts, Issue 6, Jacqueline Matthews, Robin Hyde, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 6 | September 1992
Volume 2 | Number 2 | Issue 6 | September 1992 Editorial Lauris Edmond Letters Phil Mann: “The Poverty Trap: A warning fable” (comment) Janet Wilson: “Very Much a ‘Wellington’ piece?” (response, comment) Iain Sharp: “Letter from Auckland” (comment)…
Spareness and generosity, Bill Sewell
Milky Way Bar Bill Manhire, Victoria University Press, 1991, $16.95 Short Back and Sideways: Poems and Prose Hone Tuwhare, Godwit, 1992, $19.95 It would be hard to imagine two poets as different as Bill Manhire and Hone Tuwhare. Both are…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Godwit, Hone Tuwhare, Issue 6, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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