Volume 12 | Number 4 | Issue 55 | October 2002 Tim Hazledine: Jane Kelsey, At the Crossroads. Three Essays Editorial Letters “Imprints”: Peter Wells Jane Stafford: Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson, The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin…
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The trouble with Harry, Catherine Hill
Tomorrow Tastes Better Russell Haley HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503910 The English Harem Anthony McCarten Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414640 What exactly is a comic novel? The question arises because comedy is the common feature of Tomorrow Tastes Better and The…
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Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Catherine Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 55, Random House, Russell Haley, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Charms and riddles, Kathryn Walls
Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children ed Rachel McAlpine (illustrated David Elliot) Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1869414853 Like its evidently popular predecessor, this anthology is invitingly presented. Hard covers announce that it is meant to be kept for long-term…
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Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Poetry, Review
On the Main Trunk Line, Charlotte Yates
An Ordinary Joker: the life and songs of Peter Cape ed Roger Steele Steele Roberts, $59.95, ISBN 1877228125 For a singer, Peter Cape has always struck me as an anomaly, with his thin nasal tenor, tentative tuning, and strongly defective…
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Tagged with: Charlotte Yates, Issue 55, Peter Cape, Roger Steele, Spring 2001, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Pamela to pomo, Sydney Shep
Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study of his Printing Based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts Keith Maslen University of Otago (Studies in English 7), $95.00, ISBN 0473077604 Reading/Saying/Making: Selected Essays Alan Loney The Writers Group, $39.95, ISBN 0473076284…
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Tagged with: Alan Loney, Issue 55, Keith Maslen, Samuel Richardson, Spring 2001, Sydney Shep, The Writers Group, University of Otago
Posted in Biography, Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Lucky dip, Nelson Wattie
After Bathing at Baxter’s: Essays and Notebooks Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734182 Structurally, as the subtitle suggests, this is a mixed bag, but on most pages most readers will find a sentence or two, a paragraph, an…
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Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 55, Nelson Wattie, Spring 2001, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Super-seded? Susan St John
Rewarding Service: A history of the Government Superannuation Fund Neil Atkinson University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276227 It is hard to disagree with the opening lines of this book: “In The past three decades superannuation has become one of…
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Tagged with: Issue 55, Neil Atkinson, Otago University Press, Spring 2001, Susan St John
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Chord and discord Laurence Jenkins
A Life Set to Music, the Autobiography of Edwin Carr, New Zealand Composer Edwin Carr Blanchard Press, $42.95, ISBN 0473078511 With the recent death of Douglas Lilburn, this country was reminded that the vanguard of creative artists, those who first…
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Tagged with: Blanchard Press, Edwin Carr, Issue 55, Laurence Jenkins, Spring 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Less than kind, Elizabeth Webby
Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers C K Stead Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402723 When invited to review this new collection of critical essays by C K Stead, I initially demurred on the grounds of my…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Webby, Issue 55, Spring 2001
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Small shoes; small reviews: media treatment of children’s literature, Barbara Mabbett
It is a truth universally acknowledged that value of labour is associated with size of client: children’s nurses and teachers, for instance, are almost always paid less that those who nurse or teach people whose shoes and wallets are somewhat…
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