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Issue 60 | October 2003
Volume 13 | Number 4 | Issue 60| October 2003 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…
Inaugural award for Bill Sewell
The late Bill Sewell is the first recipient of the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry in recognition of his achievements. Speaking on behalf of the Canterbury Poets Collective and the New Zealand Poetry Society, which set up the award,…
Not in Wonderland now, Rosemary Lovell-Smith
Harry Wakatipu Comes the Mong Jack Lasenby Puffin Books, $15.95, ISBN 014331808X No Safe Harbour David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783760 Boy Next Door Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135763 Buddy V M Jones HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869504313…
Tagged with: David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 60, Jack Lasenby, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Puffin Books, Rosemary Lovell-Smith, Summer 2002, V M Jones
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Orphans and angst, Vivienne Jepsen
Ghost Net Lynn Davidson University of Otago Press, $,29.95 ISBN 1877276421 Swim Jackie Davis Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143018566 Dreams Lost Never Walked Raumoa Ormsby Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415507 Electric Chad Taylor Jonathan Cape/Random House, $34.95, ISBN 0224069268 If these four…
Tagged with: Issue 60, Jackie Davis, Jonathan Cape, Lynn Davidson, Otago University Press, Penguin, Random House, Raumoa Ormsby, Summer 2002, Vintage, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Figuring out art history, Damian Skinner
FigureWork: The Nude and Life Modelling in New Zealand Art Sandra Chesterman University of Otago Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877276375 The Image Always Has the Last Word: On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography Laurence Simmons Dunmore Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864694121…
Tagged with: Damian Skinner, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 60, Laurence Simmons, Otago University Press, Sandra Chesterman, Summer 2002
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Indigenous voices, colonial language, Cilla McQueen
Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English ed Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402731 Captain Cook in the Underworld Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402812 “Before had England even…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Issue 60, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Editorial – Issue 60
Mind your language! The plurality of communication styles upstream of current stakeholders is relatively porous; but some destabilised pluralities evidence significantly more porosity than others. We’re sorry – we’ll read that again. As Orwell’s power-crazed pigs might have put…
About those vampires, Jane Stafford
Daylight Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734492 Bad O’Phelan is a New Zealand caver traumatised by the memory of Dart Ridge, a Cave Creek disaster, which he survived “taking three backward steps off the viewing platform above the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 60, Jane Stafford, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Catching the post, Linda Burgess
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters ed Louise Lawrence Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018663 Oh friends, friends – where would we be without them? Sometimes they move far away, as did Charlotte Bronte’s school friend and confidante Mary Taylor, who…
Tagged with: Issue 60, Linda Burgess, Louise Lawrence, Penguin, Summer 2002
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review