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Remembrance of things past, Peter Wells
The House at Karamu Beryl Fletcher Spinifex, $29.95, ISBN 1876756357 Travelling with Augusta 1835 and 1999 Ingrid Horrocks Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864734476 Initially, when I received these two books for review, I thought I would resist the contrast-and-compare…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 60, Peter Wells, Spinifex, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Hunting down the story, Norman Bilbrough
A Friend in Paradise Des Hunt HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504429 Henry and the Flea Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783779 The Dragon’s Apprentice Linda McNabb HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504127 Artists Are Crazy and Other Stories Ken Catran Lothian Books,…
Tagged with: Brian Falkner, Des Hunt, HarperCollins, Issue 60, Ken Catran, Linda McNabb, Lothian Books, Mallinson Rendel, Norman Bilbrough, Summer 2002
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Autobiographical silences, Doug Munro
Awatere: A Soldier’s Story Arapeta Awatere (ed Hinemoa Ruataupare Awatere) Huia, $49.95, ISBN 1877283819 During the early 1970s, an elderly Maori man, who had been convicted of murder, sat in his cell in Mt Eden Prison and penned his memoirs.…
Tagged with: Arapeta Awatere, Doug Munro, Hinemoa Ruataupare Awatere, Huia, Issue 60, Summer 2002
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Poem — Peter Bland
Storm Beach – Coromandel All things swim and glitter. Ghostlike we glide Through nature and should not know our place again. Ralph Waldo Emerson A tsunami off the Kermadecs curdles the bay’s translucent blue. Mussel Reef’s out of reach…
Faith and works, Martin Edmond
Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith Marja Bloem and Martin Browne Craig Potton Publishing, $59.95, ISBN 0908802919 Don Binney: Nga Manu/Nga Motu – Birds/Islands Damian Skinner Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 186940288X In the set I moved with in Auckland…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Craig Potton Publishing, Damian Skinner, Don Binney, Issue 60, Marja Bloem, Martin Browne, Martin Edmond, Summer 2002
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Blueprints for performance, Lisa Warrington
Song-Plays William Direen Alpha Books, [price unavailable], ISBN 0958326622 Peace Plays Kathleen Gallagher Doygal Press, $29.95, ISBN 0473088088 Vagabonds Lorae Parry Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734352 Puppetry, pirates, conscientious objectors, big business, morality tales, land wars, popular songs, poetry,…
Tagged with: Alpha Books, Doygal Press, Issue 60, Kathleen Gallagher, Lisa Warrington, Lorae Parry, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press, William Direen
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Issue 60 Summer 2002
Volume 12 | Number 4 | Issue 60| Summer 2002 Martin Edmond: Marja Bloem and Martin Browne, Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith; Damian Skinner, Don Binney: Nga Manu/Nga Motu – Birds/Islands Editorial Letters Les Cleveland: John Crawford and…
Play it again, John Smythe
Red Light Means Stop: Six Super Solos from Aotearoa NZ ed Vivienne Plumb The Women’s Play Press, $27.95, ISBN 0958231001 Readers of this potent volume of mostly solo plays may engage with them as literature, as texts “auditioning” for production,…
Tagged with: Issue 60, John Smythe, Summer 2002, The Women’s Play Press, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Relatively free speech, W K Hastings
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