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An institutional story, David Grant
Coal, Class and Community: The United Mineworkers of New Zealand 1880‑1960 Len Richardson Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1 86940 113 1 Coalmining unionism has a long and tortured history in this country. The industry was first nurtured on…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Grant, Issue 19, Len Richardson, Spring 1995
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Saying it like it is, Jane Stafford
Palm Prints Fiona Kidman Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 228 1 Then and There: a Seventies Diary Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86950 116 6 Accidental Life Phoebe Meikle Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 108…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Dennis McEldowney, Fiona Kidman, Issue 19, Jane Stafford, Mallinson Rendel, Mona Williams, Phoebe Meikle, Spring 1995, Vintage
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Preserving the personal myth, Harry Ricketts
Out On A Limb Martin Crowe Reed Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0 7900 0387 2 Tortured Genius Joseph Romanos Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1 86958 187 3 In Anthony Powell’s roman fleuve, A Dance to the Music of Time, the…
Tagged with: Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 19, Joseph Romanos, Martin Crowe, Reed Publishing, Spring 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Much more than No 8, Antonius Papaspiropoulos
Kiwi Ingenuity ‑ A Book of New Zealand Ideas and Inventions Bob Riley AIT Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 9583334 4 0 There’s a wonderful sequence in a mid‑80s Woody Allen movie called A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. Woody, a self‑confessed…
Tagged with: AIT Press, Antonius Papaspiropoulos, Bob Riley, Issue 19, Spring 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
To kill like pets? Sharon Crosbie
Why Cats Paint: a theory of feline aesthetics Heather Busch and Burton Silver Weidenfeld and Nicolson, $34.95 ISBN 0 297 83351 0 Never mind the theory, for heaven’s sake, do cats need a reason? Do we need to know?…
Tagged with: Burton Silver, Heather Busch, Issue 19, Sharon Crosbie, Spring 1995, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
An offshore voice, Diana Bridge
In March this year Diana Bridge gave a talk at a Commonwealth studies conference at the University of Rajasthan at Jaipur in India. The talk was “an attempt to let an interested but undernourished academic audience hear some of our…
Poem — John Allison
The Blind Musician My fingers read the braille of your body, sensing lyrics in your skin, the music on these staves of your rib‑cage. I lean close to hear its cadences: breathing. You are song, I sense your vibrancy. This…
Erasing accessibility, Bill Sewell
The erasure tapes Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 186940 1 14 x Reading Alan Loney’s work again is like opening up an old wound. For he is a survivor of the Freed group of the late 1960s and…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Bill Sewell, Issue 19, Spring 1995
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Fiona Kidman
Light gathers (for Topsy Wi) I went to your grandmother’s house on summer mornings when green‑gold pods of light gathered in the grass and the blue gum trees whistled in tune to our voices. You sat on the whare step…
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