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The art of the odd, Janet Wilson
Swallowing Diamonds Marilyn Duckworth Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415485 In Marilyn Duckworth, New Zealand has its finest writer of the absurd. Although others have written about states of unreality or non-reality – most particularly Janet Frame, younger novelists like Elizabeth Knox,…
Tagged with: Issue 59, Janet Wilson, Marilyn Duckworth, Spring 2002, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Queering the Kiwi bloke’s pitch, Gavin McLean
The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New Zealand ed Heather Worth, Anna Paris and Louisa Allen University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276251 Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand 1960-1986 Laurie Guy Victoria University…
Tagged with: Anna Paris, Gavin McLean, Heather Worth, Issue 59, Laurie Guy, Louisa Allen, Otago University Press, Spring 2002, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Boy’s Own snapshots, Hugh Roberts
Imperial Vistas Family Fictions Kendrick Smithyman Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 186940274X Last Poems Kendrick Smithyman The Holloway Press, $65, ISBN 095823132X It’s an interesting parlour game to speculate how New Zealand’s literary history might have changed had Kendrick Smithyman…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Holloway Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 59, Kendrick Smithyman, Spring 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem — Owen Marshall
The Diogenes Club (In memory of Bill Sewell) Yes, you will have received an invitation, join the others in the heavy armchairs of the Strangers’ Room. Sherlock, in an upswing mood which analysts today would recognise, will dominate the…
Light reading, dark lives, Margie Thomson
The Denniston Rose Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415612 This highly readable historical novel has already had a big thumbs-up from readers, and it’s not hard to understand why. It’s a darkly engaging story that almost constitutes a new…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Issue 59, Jenny Pattrick, Margie Thomson, Spring 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters — Issue 59
Spiteful review Is it surprising that Michael Grimshaw was so destructive in his December 2002 review of Snapshots on the Journey? Perhaps, when we notice the self-promotion of his own anthology, compiled with the help of one of the editors…
Hobson’s choice, Bryan Gilling
Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi Paul Moon David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0908990839 The Treaty of Waitangi often appears to have sprung forth, fully formed, from William Hobson’s pen on 6 February 1840. Many…
Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, David Ling Publishing, Issue 59, Paul Moon, Spring 2002
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Truth vs the good story, Laura Kroetsch
Barbed Wire Between Us: A story of love and war Derek Round Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869415248 Last of the Whalers: Charlie Heberley’s Story Heather Heberley Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561903 In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer’s Search for…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Derek Round, Gondwanaland Press, Heather Heberley, Issue 59, Laura Kroetsch, Penguin, Random House, Robin Allardyce, Spring 2002, Susan Price, Tessa Duder
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Speaking frankly of Frank and James K, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson’s Centenary ed Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford Cape Catley, $49.99, ISBN 0908561938 O Jerusalem – James K Baxter: An Intimate Memoir Mike Minehan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270385 Two icons…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Frank Sargeson, Graeme Lay, Hazard Press, Issue 59, James K Baxter, Mike Minehan, Spring 2002, Stephen Stratford, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Horace at Kapiti, Roger Robinson
Posted in Comment