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Poem — Hubert Witheford
Snapshot 1938 ‘Althea Woodhouse is a very nice girl’ Aunt Olive said cheerfully — My father dead, My mother, Olive thought, not all that bright — She felt she ought to do something about my life Her own having been…
Poem — Jan Hutchison
Waving from the Train At first you’re afraid to board this train. You wake to black percussion of wheels crossing a river with no name. But tracks are warming in the sun, foxgloves stride along the bank and memory sleeps…
One useful, one not, Heather Murray
The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield Jan Pilditch (ed) Greenwood Press, United States, $55 ISBN 0 313 290644 Katherine Mansfield: A “Do You Remember” Life, Four Stories with an Illustrated Introduction Gillian Boddy Victoria University Press with the Katherine Mansfield…
Who criticises the critics?, Lauris Edmond
Whole Men Kai Jensen Auckland University Press 1996 $34.95 ISBN 186940145x A R D Fairburn Selected Poems Mac Jackson (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473 2937 Denis Glover Selected Poems Bill Manhire (ed) Victoria University Press, $24.95 ISBN 086473…
Tagged with: A R D Fairburn, Auckland University Press, Bill Manhire, Denis Glover, Issue 23, Kai Jensen, Lauris Edmond, Mac Jackson, Spring 1996, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
War for all of us, Judith Holloway
The Bantam and the Soldier Jennifer Beck, illustrated by Robyn Belton Scholastic New Zealand, $21.95 ISBN 186943 1553 Modern New Zealand child to great-grandmother: Why was Pop wearing these clothes in this photo? Gran: That’s his uniform. When he was…
Tagged with: Issue 23, Jennifer Beck, Judith Holloway, Robyn Belton, Scholastic New Zealand, Spring 1996
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Not just a pretty picture, Alan Loney
Twenty-five Bindings designed by Edgar Mansfield, realised by James Brockman National Library Gallery, Wellington, 1 March-28 April Hawke’s Bay Museum, Napier, 12 May-7 July The history of bookbinding is older than the hist ory of printing and goes back to…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Edgar Mansfield, Hawke's Bay Museum, Issue 23, James Brockman, National Library Gallery, Spring 1996
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Confident variety, Phillip Mann
Love Knots Vivienne Plumb, $16.95 ISBN 0 9583393 1 7 Front Women Lorae Parry, $16.95 ISBN 0 473 02171 4 Cracks Lorae Parry, $14.95 ISBN 0 958 339309 The Case of Katherine Mansfield Cathy Downes, $16.95 ISBN 0 958 339333…
Tagged with: Cathy Downes, Issue 23, Jean Betts, Katherine Mansfield, Lorae Parry, Phillip Mann, Shakespeare, Spring 1996, Vivienne Plumb, Women’s Play Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Contextualising Maori writing, Ruth Brown
Posted in Comment, Literature, Māori