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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
Outstanding biography, John Goodliffe
Vladimir Nabokov: the American years Brian Boyd, Chatto and Windus, London, 1992, $59.95 The first volume of Brian Boyd’s monumental biography of Vladimir Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov: the Russian Years, 1990) was accorded very high critical acclaim. This second volume, covering…
Tagged with: Issue 6, John Goodliffe, Spring 1992, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Agile metaphors, Lawrence Bourke
Selected Poems Vincent O’Sullivan, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1992, $24.95 Vincent O’Sullivan’s Selected Poems provides a timely conspectus on the poetry department of this one-man literary industry. It prints twenty-four new poems with a ruthless selection of the early work…
A reader tease, Paola Bilbrough
Treasure Elizabeth Knox, Victoria University Press, 1992, $24.95 ‘I have come that you might have life and have it in fullness’ is a biblical quotation repeated twice in Elizabeth Knox’s latest creation, Treasure. It relates most obviously to the sheer…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 6, Paola Bilbrough, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Research guide, Gavin McLean
A Guide to Art Galleries and Museums In New Zealand Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Auckland, 1991, $14.95 This snappy little paperback wins out over Thomson’s earlier book in that it is cheap and portable enough to be bought and…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 6, Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Spring 1992
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Rampant Monetarism, Gillian Boddy
Feral City Rosie Scott, Reed, 1991, $24.95 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood‑dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (W B Yeats, The Second Coming)…
Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Issue 6, Reed, Rosie Scott, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
An elegant and serious survey, Jonathan Else
Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90s Trish Clark and Wystan Curnow (eds), Longman Paul, $34.95 This volume is a refreshing challenge to several assumptions that have become the dead wood of art theory and scholarship in New Zealand, and,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, Jonathan Else, Longman Paul, Spring 1992, Trish Clark, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Rich repertoire, Lawrence Jones
Tomorrow We Save the Orphans Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1992, $24.95 Last year as I was working through a huge box of anonymous entries to the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award competition, I came across an ill‑typed,…
Tagged with: Issue 6, John McIndoe, Lawrence Jones, Owen Marshall, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review