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New confidence and authority, Jane Stafford
Seven Days on Mykonos Anne French, Auckland University Press, $19.95 To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from, says Seamus Heaney. But if you are a New Zealander, you also have to have a…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Issue 11, Jane Stafford, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 11
Towards a new era, Colin James The Rank group now controls half of the bookselling trade, with Whitcoulls, Bennetts, London, Philip King and a part share in University Bookshops. More important, according to informal trade estimates, it controls 60% or…
What gives it meaning? Anne French
The Tudor Style Elizabeth Smither, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Guardians, not Angels Stephen Oliver, Hazard Press, $19.95 Distances Rob Jackaman, Hazard Press, $19.95 Days Beside Water Gregory O’Brien, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Malachi Gregory O’Brien, Little Esther Books, $13.00, available…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Gregory O’Brien, Hazard Press, Issue 11, Little Esther Books, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Summer 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Issue 11 | Summer 1993
Volume 3 | Number 3 | Issue 11 | Summer 1993 Editorial Colin James: ‘Towards a new era’ W H Oliver: Michael Bassett, Sir Joseph Ward: A political biography. Denis Welch: Neale McMillan, Top of the Greasy Pole. Margaret…
Who are the intruders? Brian Turner
Dark of the Moon and Beak of the Moon, Philip Temple, Penguin, each $24.95 Sailor, explorer, writer, mountaineer: Philip Temple was all of those things when I first met him in the 1970s. Originally from England ‑ he emigrated as…
Revelling in the actuality of the past, Ralph Johnson
The House of Strife Maurice Shadbolt, Hodder and Stoughton, $39.95 Life is no uniform uninterrupted march or flow. It is a thing of histories, each with its own plot, its inception and movement towards its close. – John Dewey,…
Tagged with: Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 11, Maurice Shadbolt, Ralph Johnson, Summer 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fiction, history and art of displacement, Brian Edwards
Let the River Stand Vincent O’Sullivan, Penguin, $24.95 Amongst conceptions of history, at least in its articulations with fiction and with postmodernism as perception of a contemporary cultural movement, grand narratives of human progress give way to local detail, to…
Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Unacknowledged legislators, Diane Hebley
Zigzag William Taylor (ed), Penguin, $19.95 Slide the Corner Fleur Beale, Ashton Scholastic Take Me to Your Leaders Gaelyn Gordon, Tui Harper/Collins, $14.95 Those who support New Zealand literature for children and young adults have always claimed the justification for…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Collins, Fleur Beale, Gaelyn Gordon, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Tui Harper, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
A major Australasian critic, Charles Ferrall
Patrick White Mark Williams, Macmillan, 1993, $45.95 During the early 1960s Patrick White wrote an admiring letter to Janet Frame; she replied 22 years later. The Tasman is often wider than it looks, but this belies some more direct correspondences…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 11, Macmillan, Mark Williams, Summer 1993
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review