The Iliad, Book xii So in the years to come Poseidon and god Apollo Would set all things to rights once more (The Iliad, xiii. Robert Eagles’ translation) Homer knew war: knew the killing – brains spilling out, spurting…
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Letters – Issue 60
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…
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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,…
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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
Issue 52 | March 2002
Butting the trend, Marion McLeod
In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings 1984 – 2000 Marilyn Waring Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242098 Journalism is an ephemeral business. “Today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapping” – the saying may be out of date but the…
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Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 52, Marilyn Waring, Marion McLeod, Summer 2002
Posted in Essays, Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Essays, Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Redefining war art, Roger Blackley
I was no soldier: An artist’s war diary Ted Lewis Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228494 I was no soldier tells the story of an art teacher’s experiences of World War 2. Ted Lewis volunteered in January 1941 for the medical…
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Tagged with: Issue 52, Roger Blackley, Steele Roberts, Summer 2002, Ted Lewis
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The perils of proximity, Michael Laws
Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister Brian Edwards Exisle Publishing, $44.95, ISBN 0908988206 Biography is a fraught art. If the subject is dead, then the Author is reliant upon a myriad of sources, often contradictory, to capture the essence of…
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Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Exisle Publishing, Helen Clarke, Issue 52, Michael Laws, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Without guilt or apology, Harry Ricketts
Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life: New & Collected Writings Michael King Cape Catley, $34.95, ISBN 0908561881 “This is the sort of letter that doesn’t look well in a Biography,” Rupert Brooke wrote Eddie Marsh in September 1913. Brooke…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Harry Ricketts, Issue 52, Michael King, Summer 2002
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Bestriding two worlds, Alan Ward
He Tipua: The Life and Times of Sir Apirana Ngata Ranginui Walker Viking, $69.95, ISBN 0670911887 In the Foreword, Sir Henare Ngata, son of Sir Apirana, on Behalf of the Ngata family and the Ngati Porou people, thanks Dr Ranginui…
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Tagged with: Alan Ward, Issue 52, Ranginui Walker, Sir Apirana Ngata, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review