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Demystifying the process, Siobhan Harvey
Insights: New Zealand Artists Talk about Creativity Gareth Shute (ed) Reed, $29.99, ISBN 1869418247 “The more you reason,” counselled Raymond Chandler, “the less you create.” Before he began working on his latest book, Insights: New Zealand Artists Talk About Creativity,…
Tagged with: Gareth Shute, Issue 79, Reed, Siobhan Harvey, Spring 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Standing places of the heart, Harvey McQueen
Heartlands: New Zealand Historians Write about Where History Happened Kynan Gentry and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019929 History used to be about kings, queens, politicians, diplomats, generals, wars, revolutions, parliaments, laws and treaties. My early schooling followed the…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harvey McQueen, Issue 79, Kynan Gentry, Penguin, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Unpeaceful co-existence, Isa Moynihan
Gate Crasher and Other Stories Frances Cherry Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $25.00, ISBN 186942056X Flashpoint Frances Cherry Scholastic New Zealand, $16.99, ISBN 1869437438 Frances Cherry’s first collection, The Daughter-in-law and Other Stories, was published in 1986, and her first…
Tagged with: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Frances Cherry, Isa Moynihan, Issue 79, Scholastic New Zealand, Spring 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Boudicca does it for a jar of mead, David Hill
A Short History of Sheep in New Zealand Richard Wolfe Random House, $29.99, ISBN 1869418204 Instructions for New Zealanders Richard Wolfe Random House, $34.99, ISBN 1869418506 The Smell of Powder: A History of Duelling in New Zealand Donald Kerr Random…
Tagged with: Australian National Maritime Museum, David Hill, Donald Kerr, Exisle Publishing, Issue 79, John Dunmore, Nicola McCloy, Random House, Richard Wolfe, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sounds like us, John Pagani
ZB: The Voice of an Iconic Radio Station Bill Francis HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 186950612X A radio station is not just intangible, but purely transient. Voices change, frequencies change, even the name of the station changes. All that’s left to bridge…
Tagged with: Bill Francis, HarperCollins, Issue 79, John Pagani, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction
Catching it on the run, Don Aimer
Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township David Cook Craig Potton Publishing and Ramp Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877333522 Once upon a time, under the fluffy Waikato clouds out west of the unlovely Huntly, was a place called Rotowaro…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Cook, Don Aimer, Issue 79, Ramp Press, Spring 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem — Fiona Kidman
Marilyn at Malibu In that other country the one we call home on the faded apricot wall of my study hangs a great big silver framed portrait of Marilyn Monroe at Malibu standing on a terrace drinking champagne out…
Rethinking ourselves, Tim Hazledine
Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand Laurence Simmons (ed) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403799 I was thrilled to be asked to review this book. You see, I am a bit of a public intellectual myself, yet…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 79, Laurence Simmons, Spring 2007, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Seamless, Renée
Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists Ann Packer Random House, $59.99, ISBN 1869417887 I know Ann Packer’s work from her articles in newspapers and magazines, and never go anywhere without her little gem, Crafty Girls’ Road Trip. So it was…
Tagged with: Ann Packer, Issue 79, Random House, Renée, Spring 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Letters — Issue 79
Against the grain Please allow me to correct errors of fact and interpretation in Martin Edmond’s review of my biography of Mervyn Taylor (NZB, Winter 2007). Edmond claims Taylor’s “best, and best-known, works are woodblock prints”. They are not. So…