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…
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Poem — Jan Hutchison
One useful, one not, Heather Murray
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
When Keri Hulme’s novel the bone people received international acclaim in 1975 I thought that we needed to ask questions about what western culture is doing when it deems “other” races to be still “spiritual”. It seemed that a version…
Posted in Comment, Literature, Māori