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Issue 115 | Spring 2016
Volume 26 | Number 3 | Issue 115 | Spring 2016 Editorial Chris Orsman: “Memory Harbour” (poem) Charlotte Graham: Tracey Slaughter, Deleted Scenes for Lovers Thom Conroy: Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular Tatjana Schaefer: N K Ashworth, The Falconer’s…
Poem – Chris Orsman
Memory
Harbour (i.m. Pvt. Robert Brownlee: obit. 14/vi/1916) Whatever challenge is carelessly thrown down there are those who will always soldier on when strangers loom and cast their shadow. It’s dead low-water on Memory Harbour: a crab patrol sidles across…
Editorial – Issue 115
Taking it personally Recent conversations about the state of reviewing in New Zealand have been dominated by demands, sometimes pleas, that reviewers be brave and honest. Of course. We, too, at New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa look for bravery and…
Familiar and strange, Charlotte Graham
Deleted Scenes for Lovers Tracey Slaughter Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560585 In almost a decade in journalism, I’ve spent a long time sitting in courtrooms. The people whose lives play out in front of a judge seem at first…
Tagged with: Charlotte Graham, Issue 115, Spring 2016, Tracey Slaughter, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Promising softly-spoken wonder, Thom Conroy
The Quiet Spectacular Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143574156 Laurence Fearnley occupies a position somewhere between national treasure and experimental writer. Her depictions of landscapes and her stylistic tendency toward restraint inspire praise, with reviews admiring Fearnley for how markedly…
Tagged with: Issue 115, Laurence Fearnley, Penguin Books, Spring 2016, Thom Conroy
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Bill Nelson
Let me tell you about one more statue This one is a jazz man lying on his side. One knee raised, chipping away at a gimlet. The ruffles of his shirt spill down below his chest over the pedestal…
Glory or gory? Caitlin Walker
The Bakehouse Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781776570072 Viewed from a distance of seventy-plus years, 1943 was history soup, everything mixed up, and it was difficult to separate reality from what he had read or been told. One event,…
Tagged with: Caitlin Walker, Gecko Press, Issue 115, Joy Cowley, Spring 2016
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
The challenge of being, Tatjana Schaefer
The Falconer’s Daughter N K Ashworth RSVP, $25.00 ISBN 9780987658760 Being Magdalene Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00 ISBN 9781775537670 It almost goes without saying that novels for the young adult or teen reader are about the quest for personal identity.…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Issue 115, N K Ashworth, Random House, RSVP, Spring 2016, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Forward to the 1950s, Trevor Agnew
The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa Avis Acres (text and illus) Puffin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143507055 First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest Adventure David Hill (Phoebe Morris illus) Puffin, $25.00, ISBN 9780143506874 Changing Times: The Story of a New…
Tagged with: Avis Acres, Bob Kerr, David Hill, Issue 115, Phoebe Morris, Potton and Burton, Puffin, Sally Louise Hill, Spring 2016, Treasured Travels Publishing, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review