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A state of acceptance? Bill Sewell
A Blue Monkey for the Tomb Hubert Witheford Faber & Faber £5.99 (approx NZ$15) Hubert Witheford presents a problem to literary historians. In some respects, he fits the profile of a New Zealand poet of his generation (he was born…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Faber & Faber, Hubert Witheford, Issue 15, Spring 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Something highly individualistic to say, Tony Bellette
By the Waters of Babylon: the Art of A Lois White Nicola Green David Bateman, in association with the Auckland City Art Gallery, $39.95 No Road to Follow: Autobiography of a New Zealand Artist Eric Lee‑Johnson Godwit Press, $49.95 WA…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Eric Lee‑Johnson, Godwit Press, Hazard Press, Issue 15, Nicola Green, Pat Unger, Spring 1994, Tony Bellette
Posted in Art, Non-fiction
Posted in Art, Non-fiction
The panic of O, Jane Stafford
The Switch Murray Edmond Auckland University Press, $19.95 Dia Michelle Leggott Auckland University Press, $19.95 I teach a second-year university course in modern poetry where one of the chief requirements of the lecturers is to prevent panic. It’s alright, we…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 15, Jane Stafford, Michelle Leggott, Murray Edmond, Spring 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Chinese takeaways, Anne French
Maidenhome Ding Xiaoqi Otago University Press, $24.95 The Chinese Interpreter James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $24.95 Burning Boats: seventeen New Zealand short stories Owen Marshall (ed) Longman Paul, $19.95 We’ve all become experts on China in the past year or two,…
Tagged with: Anne French, Ding Xiaoqi, Hazard Press, Issue 15, James Norcliffe, Longman Paul, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Getting it practically all wrong, Sally Logan
The New Zealand Marketing Book Guenther Mueller‑Heumann and Michael Duffy Dunmore Press, $84.95 New Zealand’s future prosperity will be based, in large part, on its ability to market itself, its expertise, its products and its services to a sceptical world.…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Guenther Mueller‑Heumann, Issue 15, Michael Duffy, Sally Logan, Spring 1994
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
Greater than the parts, Janet Wilson
Mr Fish and other stories Elizabeth Smither Macindoe, $24.95 Elizabeth Smither’s second collection of short fiction gathered from stories published in recent years, displays at first sight the unfussed, unfazable and whimsical qualities for which her poetry has often been…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 15, Janet Wilson, Macindoe, Spring 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Most significant work in NZ realism, Lawrence Jones
Crime Story Maurice Gee Penguin, $29.95 The Fat Man Maurice Gee Viking, $15.95 In 1977, writing a letter to the Listener, Maurice Shadbolt commented that although he was “far more interested as a writer, in nineteenth century New Zealand”, he…
Tagged with: Issue 15, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Spring 1994, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
History, challenge and succession, Chris Prentice
Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $29.95 Witi Ihimaera’s writing has always been concerned in some way with the problem of history, this concern reaching its most urgent and dramatic consideration in the 1986 novel, The Matriarch. With…
Tagged with: Chris Prentice, Issue 15, Penguin Books, Spring 1994, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A seed for the future, Miriama Evans
Ngaa Mahi Whakaari a Titokowaru Ruka Broughton Victoria University Press, $24.95 E kore au e ngaro: te kakano i ruia mai i Rangiaatea (“I shall not be destroyed, for I am the seed sown from Rangiaatea.”) The ancient and…
Tagged with: Issue 15, Miriama Evans, Ruka Broughton, Spring 1994, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review