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Risky business, Bernadette Hall
Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (ed) Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869402987 I have known griefs o more than three – Tooth aching, Child-bearing, And the voice breaking Those silent frontiers Of dream, held hazardously.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Issue 63, Michele Leggott, Spring 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Journeys and sympathies, Anna Jackson
Home Boys Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135887 Lin and the Red Stranger Ken Catran Random House, $16.95, ISBN 1869415779 Tiggie Tompson’s Longest Journey Tessa Duder Penguin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318128 Finding myself questioning the whole genre of young…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Bernard Beckett, Issue 63, Ken Catran, Longacre Press, Penguin, Random House, Spring 2003, Tessa Duder
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Angels in the meat-grinder, Les Cleveland
While You’re Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948 Anna Rogers Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869403010 Nursing might be one of the few remaining professions not entirely driven by greed or self-interest. Anna Rogers assembles a chronicle of service…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Auckland University Press, Issue 63, Les Cleveland, Spring 2003
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Poem — Fleur Adcock
Historian dies in fiery crash (i.m. Michael King, 1945-2004) And all our competence in words fails us. When the horror’s beyond exaggeration, go back. Try not to imagine it. But not only “historian”: his wife too – and just…
The dark night of the decent bloke, Peter Wells
The Scornful Moon Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018752 Anyone who has heard Maurice Gee read can summon up his tone of voice: discerning, patient and artful. He is a shrewd observer of the human condition with, at times, an…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Peter Wells, Spring 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Their side of the story, Megan Hutching
Fighting with the enemy: New Zealand POWs and the Italian Resistance Susan Jacobs Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018620 On 10 July 1943 Allied forces attacked Italy, landing in Sicily. Two weeks later the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in an…
Tagged with: Issue 63, Megan Hutching, Penguin, Spring 2003, Susan Jacobs
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Editorial — Issue 63
A funny sort of pride This is an unusual issue of New Zealand Books, dominated by the loss of two of our pre-eminent writers. When Janet Frame died in January, we decided to commemorate her achievement in this June issue…
The “Frame effect”, Patrick Evans
The most famous of Janet Frame’s poems is probably the one about the little boy dying of leukaemia, “Yet Another Poem About a Dying Child”, which ends with the appearance of Death as a giant spider which gobbles the child…
A slippery no-man, Owen Marshall
Enduring legacy – Charles Brasch, patron, poet and collector (ed) Donald Kerr University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library, $39.95, ISBN 1877276650 Several years ago at a reunion of those who had held Otago University’s Robert…
Tagged with: Charles Brasch, Donald Kerr, Issue 63, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Spring 2003, University of Otago Library
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The historian who opened our eyes, Jock Phillips
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