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Poem – Jan FitzGerald
Mike The photo in the lounge told the story. A handsome man sitting on a haybale in a barn flanked by his wife, four children and six border collies their ruffs ribboned with medals. Other dogs he had buried…
Not just good friends, Bill Hastings
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand Chris Brickell Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621346 This review comes to you from the backwoods of Ontario. It is a crisp autumn evening. I write this in front of a fire in…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Chris Brickell, Godwit, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The Bassett version, Harvey McQueen
Working With David Michael Bassett Hachette Livre, $59.99, ISBN 9781869710941 Working With David is a dogmatic and humourless book about a man who, even in adversity, revelled in laughter. Beginning with clear praise – “at the peak of his career…
Tagged with: Hachette Livre, Harvey McQueen, Issue 84, Michael Bassett, Summer 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Hinterlands, Mary Macpherson
Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs Andrew Ross Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864735737 Hinterland: Rick Alexander’s New Zealand Photographs Rick Alexander First Edition, $75.00, ISBN 9780475123703 A Short History of Photography Harvey Benge with Gerry Badger Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621445 Even…
Tagged with: Andrew Ross, First Edition, Gerry Badger, Godwit, Harvey Benge, Issue 84, Mary Macpherson, Rick Alexander, Summer 2008, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem – John Ridland
Night Song for my Wife to Sing at Dawn, with Ducks (Back in Christchurch, fifty years after she left) Solo: My Wife I sleep while he wakes to write these thoughts for me. My thoughts sleep with me through…
The importance of being Ernest Karen Hartshorn
The Awa Book of New Zealand Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $48.00, ISBN 9780958262996 I grew up in a household with a chemistry professor for a mother, a kitchen full of mysterious jars labelled “Experiment: Do Not Eat”, and…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 84, Karen Hartshorn, Rebecca Priestley, Summer 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Reading the score, Peter Russell
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad Joanna Woods Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372551 Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born in Melbourne in 1866, his surname inherited from a German who came to England in the 18th century –…
Tagged with: Charles Baeyertz, Issue 84, Joanna Woods, Otago University Press, Peter Russell, Summer 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Legions of the brave, Rhonda Pritchard
Serial Survivors: Women’s Narratives of Surviving Rape Jan Jordan The Federation Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781862876798 It could easily be a Jimmy McGovern script. A “good husband and father of three children”, with a secret lover on the side, stalks and…
Tagged with: Issue 84, Jan Jordan, Rhonda Pritchard, Summer 2008, The Federation Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Meeting the ancestors, Peter Wells
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