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Making a difference, Jane Stafford

All roads lead to the sea Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 177 8 The Hungry Woman  Rachel Bush Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 327 5 Still Talking Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN

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A fine compression, Alan Loney

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa Eds Penny Griffith, Ross Harvey and Keith Maslen, with the assistance of Ross Somerville Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 331 3 The publication of broad

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Looping de Loop in Lone Kauri road, Ken Arvidson

Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997 Allen Curnow Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940 162 X On the cover a reproduction of Colin McCahon’s 1965 painting Floodgate conveys ideas of power, compression and explosive force. At the point

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Perched precariously on the edge, Ramesh Thakur

Tigers in New Zealand? The Role of Asian Investment in the Economy R D Cremer and B Ramasamy Institute of Policy Studies and Asia 200 Foundation, $18.00, ISBN 0 908935 03 x New Zealand and ASEAN: The Strategic and Economic

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Poem – Kapka Kassabova

Still life On this april day, the trees shed themselves. The cruelty of seasons is the only cruelty today. On this april day something ends for you. Leaves muffle the stridency of metaphorical mercy killings. All day you watch a

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