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Issue 103 | Spring 2013
Volume 23 | Number 3 | Issue 103 | Spring 2013 Editorial Jennifer Compton: “Anxieties” (poem) Jane Stafford: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries Letters Christine Johnston: Judith White, The Elusive Language of Ducks Ruth Nichol: Anne Else: The Colour of Food:…
Out of this world, Elizabeth Crayford
Snow White’s Coffin Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738882 The Odour of Sanctity Amy Brown Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864738905 Snow White’s Coffin was written when Kate Camp held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency from September…
Tagged with: Amy Brown, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 103, Kate Camp, Spring 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Square meals, Ruth Nichol
The Colour of Food: A Memoir of Life, Love and Dinner Anne Else Awa Press, $12.00, ISBN 9781877551925 Back in the days when most New Zealanders ate the same stuff – mince, chops, sausages, a roast on Sunday – the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Awa Press, Issue 103, Ruth Nichol, Spring 2013
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The one and the many, Helen Watson White
Urbanesia: Four Pasifika Plays Courtney Sina Meredith, Vela Manusaute, Victor Rodger, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Nathaniel Lees Playmarket, $40.00, ISBN 9780908607433 Haruru Mai Briar Grace-Smith Strange Resting Places Paolo Rotondo and Rob Mokaraka Playmarket, $32.00, ISBN 9780908607440 In 2012, nearing…
Tagged with: Briar Grace-Smith, Courtney Sina Meredith, David Fane, Helen Watson White, Issue 103, Nathaniel Lees, Oscar Kightley, Paolo Rotondo, Playmarket, Rob Mokaraka, Spring 2013, Vela Manusaute, Victor Rodger
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
The scholar’s conscience, Rachael Bell
J C Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience Doug Munro Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9781877577802 In 1946, Victoria University College historian J C Beaglehole wrote of New Zealand’s nascent national identity and the historian’s contribution to the development of national life.…
Tagged with: Doug Munro, Issue 103, J C Beaglehole, Rachael Bell, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – C K Stead
The Widow Will Not Be Returning The widow across the street has been taken to live with her family, and later perhaps to a hospice. Last week I was called to witness her will. Now Rufus her little dog…
Wearing their ethics on their sleeves, Jack Ross
Mortal Fire Elizabeth Knox Gecko Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877579530 Dear Vincent Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775533276 There was a time when I used to wait eagerly for each new YA novel by Margaret Mahy. Starting with The Haunting…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Gecko Press, Issue 103, Jack Ross, Mandy Hager, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Opening the vaults, Paul Goldsmith
Turning Points Paul Moon New Holland Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869663797 Visiting the Catlins once, I walked under ancient trees, rimu or possibly beech, which our guide pointed out were more than a thousand years old. The trees pre-dated human population…
Tagged with: Issue 103, New Holland Press, Paul Goldsmith, Paul Moon, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Knowing their stuff, Anna Rogers
The Phoenix Song John Sinclair Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864738257 The Secret Life of James Cook: A Novel Graeme Lay HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540120 “It takes a great deal of history,” wrote Henry James in 1879, “to produce a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Graeme Lay, HarperCollins, Issue 103, John Sinclair, Spring 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Late style, Michael Hulse
The Yellow Buoy C K Stead Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407353 The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869407360 Collected Poems 1956-2011 Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $46.00, ISBN 9781877577994 These writers are past their three-score-and-ten –…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 103, Michael Hulse, Peter Bland, Spring 2013, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review