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Poem – Marty Smith
I am all saliva and static before the big race. I secretly want to be the horse; the jaw and the strange elemental eye. The sun along my long muscles. I will be good; I will be good. …
Reverse engineering, John McCrystal
The Infinite Air Fiona Kidman Vintage ISBN 9781869797928 Of all the technological accomplishments in a century studded with them, the advances made in heavier-than-air aviation between 1903 and 1939 must have seemed to those alive at the time to be…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 107, John McCrystal, Spring 2014, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Monsters beyond the swampbrink, Craig Cliff
Fiction Lamplighter Kerry Donovan Brown Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739162 Maria Susanna Cummins’s sentimental novel The Lamplighter (1854) was a bestseller in its time. It tells the story of a mistreated orphan, Gertrude, who’s rescued by Trueman Flint, a lamplighter.…
Tagged with: Craig Cliff, Issue 107, Kerry Donovan Brown, Spring 2014, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Weird animals, Callum Robertson
Incomplete Works Dylan Horrocks Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739223 Incomplete Works is a collection of short comics created by Dylan Horrocks between 1986 and 2012. Much like the B-sides of records, the comics sit beside one another like rough or…
Tagged with: Callum Robertson, Dylan Horrocks, Issue 107, Spring 2014, Victoria University Press
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
The effort at reasonableness, Miranda Johnson
Paikea: The Life of I L G Sutherland Oliver Sutherland University of Canterbury Press ISBN 9781927145432 The critical theme of Oliver Sutherland’s biography of his father, Ivan Sutherland, is the rational pursuit of an understanding of others. The theme is…
Tagged with: I L G Sutherland, Issue 107, Miranda Johnson, Oliver Sutherland, Spring 2014, University of Canterbury Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Paradoxes of knowledge and knowing, Nicholas Wright
page.stone.leaf Dinah Hawken (drawings by John Edgar) The Holloway Press ISBN 9780986461880 Ruby Duby Du Elizabeth Smither (Kathryn Madill illus) The Cold Hub Press ISBN 9780473268305 Gathering Evidence Caoilinn Hughes Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739261 On opening Dinah Hawken’s latest…
Tagged with: Caoilinn Hughes, Dinah Hawken, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 107, John Edgar, Kathryn Madill, Nicholas Wright, Spring 2014, The Cold Hub Press, The Holloway Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Literary contradictions, Alistair Fox
Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s Literary Traditions Melissa Kennedy Rodopi ISBN 9789042033573 Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa (eds) Edinburgh University Press ISBN 9780748669097 In Striding Both Worlds, Melissa…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Delia da Sousa Correa, Edinburgh University Press, Gerri Kimber, Issue 107, Janet Wilson, Melissa Kennedy, Rodopi, Spring 2014
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Outrageous fortune, Chris Bourke
Gutter Black Dave McArtney HarperCollins ISBN 9781775540397 Hello Sailor were New Zealand’s most convincing rock stars. They acted like pirates, and managed to look menacing and foppish at the same time. It wasn’t a pose; it was a lifestyle. They…
Tagged with: Chris Bourke, Dave McArtney, HarperCollins, Issue 107, Spring 2014
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review