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Not to be sneezed at, Rae Varcoe
Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand Geoffrey W Rice University of Canterbury Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877257354 Survive Bird Flu and Other Disasters Bronwen King Hazard Press, $14.99, ISBN 1877393185 This week’s papers contain news of progress in…
Tagged with: Bronwen King, Canterbury University Press, Geoffrey W Rice, Hazard Press, Issue 75, Rae Varcoe, Spring 2006
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Palate cleansers, Paola Bilbrough
The Violinist in Spring Anna Smaill Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 08647350222 Hourglass Sue Wootton Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 187733877X The Devil in My Shoes Phil Kawana Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403525 Poetry is an elastic genre; there are…
Tagged with: Anna Smaill, Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Phil Kawana, Spring 2006, Steele Roberts, Sue Wootton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Bubble jets of yearning, Murray Bramwell
Dante’s Heaven Jan Kemp Puriri Press, $30.00, ISBN 090894330X Beauty Sleep Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735111 The Gas Leak Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403568 In the fragile world of poetry publishing it is always…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, Issue 75, Jan Kemp, Kate Camp, Murray Bramwell, Puriri Press, Spring 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A wicked look Gerry Evans
Between the Lines: A Cartoon Century of New Zealand Political History, 1906-2005 Ian F Grant New Zealand Cartoon Archive, $39.00, ISBN 0958232040 Jews, Maori, Chinese, unionists, socialists, Red-feds, imbibers, wowsers, women, wharfies and, most frequently of all, politicians, have all…
Tagged with: Gerry Evans, Ian F Grant, Issue 75, New Zealand Cartoon Archive, Spring 2006
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Nigel Cox, Damien Wilkins
Nigel Cox (1951-2006) We pay tribute to the novelist’s life and work with this 2004 Tarzan Presley launch speech by his friend and fellow-novelist Damien Wilkins. Tarzan Presley, as the title tells us, is a topical story about an unusual…
Poem — Gregory O’Brien
Ode to fashion (for Doris De Pont) Of your over-reaching lines and the displaced hem enough said, fashion being a kind of biography in which the shape of a life is contained but not in words. Let us consider…
In cold blood, David Capie
New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy Roberto Rabel Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403401 Surrounded by placard-waving students at Waikato University during August 2005, election campaign, Prime Minister Helen Clark launched a scathing attack on her opponent’s…
Sherry with Olive, Elspeth Sandys
Posted in Comment