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Issue 28 | June 1997
Volume 7 | Number 2 | Issue 28 | June 1997 Nelson Wattie: Shadbolt the storyteller Aorewa McLeod, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Sia Figiel’s exciting talent Michael Bassett: revisiting John Banks Sir Geoffrey Palmer: what should be done about ACC…
The most exciting recent book, Aorewa McLeod
where we once belonged Sia Figiel Pasifica Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 908597 27 4 When I heard Sia Figiel in 1995, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Auckland University English department common room, read/tell the second story in this…
Tagged with: Aorewa McLeod, Issue 28, Pasifica Press, Sia Figiel, Summer 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Thin issues, rich wit, a gang and a psychopath, Heather Murray
The Journey Home Cathie Dunsford Spinifex Press Pty Ltd (Australia), $24.95, ISBN 1 875559 54 X Dr Beale’s Wednesday Liz Falkner Arrow, Random House, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 297 4 The Visitation Sue Reidy Black Swan, $19.95, ISBN 0 552…
Tagged with: Arrow, Black Swan, Bronwyn Tate, Cathie Dunsford, Heather Murray, Issue 28, Laura Solomon, Liz Falkner, Otago University Press, Random House, Spinifex Press, Sue Reidy, Summer 1997, Tandem Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The tides of labour, Len Richardson
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995 John E Martin Canturbury University Press, $49.95 limp, $69.95 cased, ISBN 0 908812 61 2 John Martin’s Holding the Balance is, in his own words, “a reassertion of…
Tagged with: Canturbury University Press, Issue 28, John E Martin, Len Richardson, Summer 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Energy, compost and mulch, Lydia Wevers
Just Another Art Movement. It’s a cunning phrase, suggesting a knowing self-deprecation but also the tiny beginnings from which the noble bush of a future literary landscape might grow.Something has already grown, as I look at the pile of JAAMs…
‘And what happened next?’ Our stories, Nelson Wattie
Dove on the Waters Maurice Shadbolt David Ling Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0 908990 40 5 In 1959, having just left a provincial home town and moved to the astonishingly big city of Auckland, I was busy trying out various ways…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Issue 28, Maurice Shadbolt, Nelson Wattie, Summer 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Valuable memories for reform, Geoffrey Palmer
Compensation for Personal Injury in New Zealand — Its Rise and Fall Ian Campbell Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 150 6 Ian B Campbell is 80 years old and has written an absorbing book on the accident compensation…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian Campbell, Issue 28, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Summer 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Awards and Celebration
Children’s awards The Bantam and the Soldier, which New Zealand Books featured in a special review in issue No 23, won the New Zealand Post children’s book award of the year. The remarkable children’s (anti-)war story was written by Jennifer…
Almost at any cost, Bill Sewell
Work in progress Poets should always have something else to do. Of course, most have to make a living and, unless a poet is in sufficient demand as a performer, that usually means being part of the everyday workforce. And…
It’s all in the touch, Janet Hughes
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