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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. …
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…
The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories Laura Solomon Proverse Hong Kong ISBN 9789888167357 Rising to the Surface Latika Vasil Steele Roberts ISBN 9781927242124 Blood and Koka Kola Christodoulos E G Moisa One Eyed Press ISBN 9781483911298 Each short…
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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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Peter Simpson, co-founder and director, remembers The Holloway Press. The retrospective exhibition, Dark Arts: Twenty Years of the Holloway Press, so ably curated by Francis McWhannell, is endgame for the Press, the last move in a game that started more…
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…
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…