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Making it, Bernadette Hall
A Box of Bees Emily Dobson Victoria University Press, $17.95, ISBN 0864735103 As It Was in the Beginning Stu Bagby Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877338540 Raw Places John Horrocks Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877338451 Who can deny the bliss of…
Tagged with: Bernadette Hall, Emily Dobson, Issue 72, John Horrocks, Steele Roberts, Stu Bagby, Summer 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Kiwi ways of dying, Abby Letteri
Last Words: Approaches to Death in New Zealand’s Cultures and Faiths ed Margot Schwass Bridget Williams Books, $29.99, ISBN 1877242349 The primary school my daughter attends has one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse populations in the New Zealand…
Tagged with: Abby Letteri, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 72, Margot Schwass, Summer 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Peeling away from the margins Janet Wilson
Red Leaves Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $22.95, ISBN 1869403460 Fire-penny Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372066 Resistance Meg Campbell Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $16.95, ISBN 1869420578 This bouquet of verse demonstrates the flourishing talent of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Diana Bridge, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Issue 72, Janet Wilson, Meg Campbell, Otago University Press, Summer 2005
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Forging the real, Louise O’Brien
Hibiscus Coast Paula Morris Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019767 The Fossil Pits Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735081 With her debut novel, Queen of Beauty, Paula Morris won both the 2001 Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing and the…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Uneasy rider, Bernard Carpinter
One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro Tim Hanna Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019740 You’ve seen the movie, now read the book. In the case of the film The World’s Fastest Indian and this book, that is the better order…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Issue 72, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Hanna
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing to reason, Denis Welch
To Build a Nation: Collected Writings 1975-1999 Bruce Jesson (ed Andrew Sharp) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143020528 New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets Dolores Janiewski and Paul Morris Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403452 I first saw Bruce Jesson…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Bruce Jesson, Denis Welch, Dolores Janiewski, Issue 72, Paul Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
International writers come to town, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week 2006 I first read Helen Garner in the 1980s. Her novel Monkey Grip, a spare, sad tale of Melbourne junkies had an effect on me I can’t quite explain – perhaps it was…
Home away from home Linda Olsson
My Home Now ed Gail Thomas and Leanne McKenzie Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 1877340049 This anthology tells the stories of 47 first-generation immigrants to New Zealand. According to the back cover, “New Zealand is shown in a new and heart-warming…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Gail Thomas, Issue 72, Leanne McKenzie, Linda Olsson, Summer 2005
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Plaits and mandibles, Margaret Mahy
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Janet Frame, illustrations by David Elliot Random, $29.95, ISBN 1869417240 Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, by novelist Janet Frame, was first published in 1969. In those days not many…
Tagged with: David Elliot, Issue 72, Janet Frame, Margaret Mahy, Random, Summer 2005
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
The quality question, Chris Else
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