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Good clean fun, Bernard Carpinter
Bold Blood Lindy Kelly HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507336 Full Moon Fever David Rodewald Rodewald Family Trust, $25.00, ISBN 9780473132736 The Bone Tiki David Hair HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869507343 Bold Blood comes with a foreword recommendation from Mark Todd, which may…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, David Hair, David Rodewald, HarperCollins, Issue 87, Lindy Kelly, Rodewald Family Trust, Spring 2009
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Fierce bliss, Jane Stafford
The Angel’s Cut Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736000 In Elizabeth Knox’s 1998 novel The Vintner’s Luck an old French peasant from 19th century Burgundy who sees the angel Xas is carted off to the asylum; in its…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 87, Jane Stafford, Spring 2009, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
What, where, here, not here, Peter Ireland
Peter Peryer Photographer Peter Peryer (photographs); Peter Simpson and Peter Peryer (essays) Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869494178 Room Room Ann Shelton (photographs); Martin Patrick (essay) City Gallery in association with McNamara Gallery, $7.00, ISBN 0958270465 Acerbic old Degas once…
Tagged with: Ann Shelton, Auckland University Press, City Gallery, Issue 87, Martin Patrick, McNamara Gallery, Peter Ireland, Peter Peryer, Peter Simpson, Spring 2009
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem — David Eggleton
Christchurch Gothic Summer’s Avon spelt the names of atua in green, and through trees sun shafts dug at dappled lawns, as if to unearth a circuit-board of worm-holes, the universe beneath the labyrinth, the silent presence of mountain shingle…
Flights of fancy, Diane Hebley
Sting Raymond Huber Walker Books, $16.99, ISBN 9781921150890 The Strange and Diverting Story of The Loblolly Boy: A Fantasy Novel Involving Enchantment, Mystery, one Garden Gnome and a Wombat’s Bottom James Norcliffe Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460258 Return for the…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 87, James Norcliffe, Longacre Press, Margaret Hall, Raymond Huber, Spring 2009, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
What sustains, Stella Ramage
Mrkusich: The Art of Transformation Alan Wright and Edward Hanfling Auckland University Press, $99.99, ISBN 9781869404376 I had a sort of epiphany the first time I saw a painting by Piet Mondrian. Prior to this my Mondrian experience had been…
Tagged with: Alan Wright, Auckland University Press, Edward Hanfling, Issue 87, Milan Mrkusich, Spring 2009, Stella Ramage
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Anti-brain fade, Bernard Beckett
Anti-brain fade Self-confessed geek Bernard Beckett is seduced by the history of science Asked to write on a “book that means a lot to you”, I knew I’d write about non-fiction, and indeed a piece of science writing. I am…