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The Hutt Valley takes Manhattan … Murray Bramwell
Book Of Cohen David Cohen Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493882 Book Of Cohen is a singular volume with multiple objectives: “This was always going to be a work by one Cohen (that would be me) on another Cohen (that would…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Issue 127, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2019, Steele Roberts
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Finding the way back, Nicholas Reid
Now When it Rains – A Writer’s Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493776 A boy needs a father, but things can go badly wrong if the father is not good at fathering. This seems to be one…
Tagged with: Issue 126, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Reid, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Stirring up the dust, John McLellan
Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds) Steele Roberts, $50.00, ISBN 9780947493721 In February 2011, over 150 years after the start of the First Taranaki War, the first ever conference dedicated…
Tagged with: Ian McGibbon, Issue 126, John Crawford, John McLellan, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Words uncaged, Tim Upperton
How to Defeat the Philistines David Beach David Beach, $25.00, ISBN 9780473426163 Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561872 A Fine Morning at Passchendaele Kevin Ireland Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9780947493677 Poetic forms are a bit like…
Tagged with: David Beach, Harry Ricketts, Issue 124, Kevin Ireland, Steele Roberts, Summer 2018, Tim Upperton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posthumous vindication, David V Williams
After the Treaty: The Settler State, Race Relations and Power in Colonial New Zealand Brad Patterson, Richard S Hill and Kathryn Patterson (eds) Steele Roberts, $40.00, ISBN 9780947493158 There was a time in New Zealand when university historians took umbrage…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Brad Patterson, David V Williams, Issue 121, Kathryn Patterson, Richard S Hill, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Talking of war, Hugh Roberts
Mulgan Noel Shepherd Steele Roberts,$25.00, ISBN 9780947493387 Noel Shepherd’s debut novel, Mulgan, certainly doesn’t lack for moxie. Writing one’s way into one of the small handful of truly iconic New Zealand novels and, what’s more, openly setting out to imitate…
Tagged with: Issue 120, Noel Shepherd, Steele Roberts, Summer 2017
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The grimness of contemporary realism, John McCrystal
Five Strings Apirana Taylor Anahera Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780473389482 Iceland Dominic Hoey Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 978094749343I It’s that time of the three-yearly cycle again. A billboard has gone up near my house promoting the political party that has, for…
Tagged with: Anahera Press, Apirana Taylor, Dominic Hoey, Issue 119, John McCrystal, Spring 2017, Steele Roberts
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Infectious enjoyment, Fleur Adcock
Night Burns with a White Fire: The Essential Lauris Edmond Frances Edmond and Sue Fitchett (eds) Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493448 This enjoyable anthology doesn’t pretend to be anything but an act of loving homage; as the editors admit, they…
Tagged with: Frances Edmond, Issue 119, Lauris Edmond, Night Burns, Spring 2017, Steele Roberts, Sue Fitchett
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poetry and politics, Sarah Sharp
Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist Harry Holland (Dougal McNeill ed) Steele Roberts, $30.00, ISBN 9780947493172 Writing during the 1920s, Harry Holland describes the celebration of Burns Night as an event which unites Scots around the world: be the Scot where…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Dougal McNeill, Harry Holland, Issue 117, Robert Burns, Sarah Sharp, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters of aroha and respect, Olivia Bennett
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 1877228206 “The art of walking upright here is the art of using both feet”. For many New Zealanders, the very essence of being Kiwi is being part of a…
Tagged with: Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 116, Olivia Bennett, Steele Roberts, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers