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Riding the beast, Michael Laws
New Zealand Votes: The General Election of 2002 ed J Boston, S Church, S Levine, E McLeay & N Roberts Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734689 I was on the baños in Baños, Ecuador when the 2002 election results were…
Tagged with: E M McLeay, E McLeay, Issue 64, J Boston, Michael Laws, N Roberts, S Church, S Levine, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Another coffee-table paperweight, Mark Amery
New Zealand Painting: a concise history Michael Dunn Auckland University Press, $99.99, ISBN 1869402979 There’s a story that’s been hanging around a while now like a bad smell. Once upon a time, the story goes, painting died. Bloated and fat,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Mark Amery, Michael Dunn, Summer 2003
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Montana New Zealand Award 2004 winners
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond has won this year’s Montana Medal for Non-fiction as well as the history category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Deutz Medal for…
The novelist as poet, Nick Ascroft
Lazy Wind Poems Graham Lindsay Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869402855 Moody Bitch Stephanie Johnson Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 1869621050 Vanilla Wine Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734719 Summer on the Cote d’Azur Alistair Paterson HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 04730980244…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Auckland University Press, Geoff Cochrane, Godwit, Graham Lindsay, HeadworX, Issue 64, Nick Ascroft, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Ploughing a lone furrow, Julia Millen
Writers In Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand Writers Jenny Robin Jones Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403029 As Edward Gibbon Wakefield wrote in 1829: Literary men, men of science, philosophers, do not emigrate to new colonies where their…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Jenny Robin Jones, Julia Millen, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Keeping your hair on, Heather Murray
The Transformation Catherine Chidgey Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734654 In Mutes and Earthquakes Bill Manhire gives his creative writing pupils a couple of pieces of advice: 1) write what you know, and 2) write what you don’t know. If,…
Tagged with: Catherine Chidgey, Heather Murray, Issue 64, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A truly adventurous coot, Brian Turner
John Pascoe Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing in association with The Whitcombe Press, $59.95, ISBN 0473094436 When I was a runty little joker, I often heard my father’s mother, Liz, describe people as “silly buggers”. John Pascoe would have…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 64, John Pascoe, Summer 2003, The Whitcombe Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Nasty things people do, Bernard Carpinter
The Temptations of Frederick Weld Michael Wall Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415930 Devil’s Apple Simon Snow Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415477 The Monstrance David McGill Silver Owl Press, $24.95, ISBN 095824510X Chicane Colin D Peel HarperCollins, $21.99, ISBN 1869504887 Alternative…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Black Swan, Colin D Peel, David McGill, HarperCollins, Issue 64, Ken Mitchell, Michael Wall, Paul Thomas, Silver Owl Press, Simon Snow, Summer 2003
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2004
Posted in Comment