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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…
Revisionist urges, Anna Rogers
The Rope of Man Witi Ihimaera Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790008947 It’s surely a disconcerting and disturbing notion: that a writer’s early books can be rewritten many years later to take account of changes in his life, or in the evolution…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 75, Reed, Spring 2006, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Killing what we love, Garth Baker
Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees Philip Simpson Te Papa Press with the Project Crimson Trust, $99.99 (hb), $59.99 (pb), ISBN 1877385131/0909010994 Philip Simpson’s Pohutukawa and Rata follows his earlier homage to cabbage trees. He wrote his popular Dancing…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, Issue 75, Philip Simpson, Project Crimson Trust, Spring 2006, Te Papa Press
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A three-act life, Jenny Robin Jones
White Chief: The Colourful Life and Times of Judge F E Maning of the Hokianga John Nicholson Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143020226 In Omapere Museum in the Hokianga, the area F E Maning called home for most of his life, a…
Tagged with: F E Maning, Issue 75, Jenny Robin Jones, John Nicholson, Penguin, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Values, principles and faith, Mary Varnham
The House of Reed 1907-1983: Great Days in New Zealand Publishing Edmund Bohan Canterbury University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187725732X Books and Boots: The Story of New Zealand Publisher, Writer and Long Distance Walker Alfred Hamish Reed Ian Dougherty Otago University…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Edmund Bohan, Ian Dougherty, Issue 75, Mary Varnham, Otago University Press, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Sherry with Olive, Elspeth Sandys
Posted in Comment