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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…
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
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
Relatively free speech, W K Hastings
Posted in Comment