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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…
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
The poetics of limitation, John O’Connor
Playing God Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228753 LOVEINABOOKSTOREORYOURMONEYBACK Sarah Quigley Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402847 People with Real Lives Don’t Need Landscapes John Dolan Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869402871 Three books with apparently little in…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 60, John Dolan, John O’Connor, Sarah Quigley, Steele Roberts, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
War tourism, Les Cleveland
One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand, the British and the South African War ed John Crawford and Ian McGibbon Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 1869402936 Landscapes of Conflict: A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars Nigel Prickett…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian McGibbon, Issue 60, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Michael King, Nigel Prickett, Penguin Books, Random House, Reed Books, Summer 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
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…
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