Volume 15 | Number 5 | Issue 71 | December 2005 Les Cleveland: Deborah Montgomerie, Love in Time of War: Letter Writing in the Second World War; Matthew Wright, Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Reality; Matthew Wright,…
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Her body falls and falls, Vivienne Jepsen
A Red Silk Sea Gillian Ranstead Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019716 The Linoleum Room Katy Robinson Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 186941697X Her Body Rises: Stories & Poems Tracey Slaughter Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869417267 Ranstead’s, Robinson’s and Slaughter’s are all first books by…
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Tagged with: Gillian Ranstead, Issue 71, Katy Robinson, Penguin, Spring 2005, Tracey Slaughter, Vintage, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Going live to death, Michael Hulse
Lifted Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 086473509X Bill Manhire’s marvellous new collection of poems opens, as Creation reportedly did, in an amorphous state, awaiting the shaping of the Author. “Without Form”, taking its title from Genesis 1.2, declares:…
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Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Issue 71, Michael Hulse, Spring 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Calls for re-enchantment, Paul Morris
Celebrating the Southern Seasons: Rituals for Aotearoa Juliet Batten Random House, $34.95, ISBN 1869417348 Tohunga: The Revival of Ancient Knowledge for the Modern Era Samuel Timoti Robinson Reed, $49.99, ISBN 079001002X The election is finally over and we have a…
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Tagged with: Issue 71, Juliet Batten, Paul Morris, Random House, Reed, Samuel Timoti Robinson, Spring 2005
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
Self-help or help yourself, Alice Te Punga Somerville & Tony Simpson
Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It’s Our Treaty Too Patrick Snedden Random House, $27.95, ISBN 186941683X I read Snedden’s Pakeha and the Treaty while diligently chomping my way through two books from a distinctly different genre: No More Clutter! and…
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Tagged with: Alice Te Punga Somerville, Issue 71, Patrick Snedden, Random House, Spring 2005, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Not in Guatemala now, Linda Burgess
Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama Trish Dunleavy Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869403398 If Ourselves in Primetime were television, rather than a book about television, it would be tucked away on TV1 at 11.30pm. Or…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Linda Burgess, Spring 2005, Trish Dunleavy
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Erratic humanity, Roger Blackley
Nerli: An Italian Painter in the South Pacific Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $79.99, ISBN I869403355 According to the traditional mythology of New Zealand art, the annus mirabilis of 1890 heralds the arrival of professionalism and modernism in the figures…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Michael Dunn, Roger Blackley, Spring 2005
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Slow readers, Tim Hazledine
Economist and member of the 2000 Heart of the Nation Taskforce on the Arts Tim Hazledine asks if we’re feeding public money to the wrong end of the literary food chain. The New York Times once ran a competition for…
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