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Strictly for the birds, Steve Braunias
Charles Fleming’s Cape Expedition Diary: Auckland Islands, 1942-43 Mary McEwen McEwen Associates, $40.00, ISBN 0473113848 Strange to think that the welcome swallow – a common sight everywhere in the North Island, and absent only in Fiordland and parts of Southland…
Tagged with: Charles Fleming, Issue 84, Mary McEwen, McEwen Associates, Steve Braunias, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial — Issue 84
Going online Now in its 18th year, New Zealand Books is coming of age. Starting with this issue, you’ll be able to read us online as well as in print. Thanks to the foresight of our publisher Peppercorn Press and…
They fuck you up, Andrew Fieldsend
The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary Pakeha and Maori Fiction of Aotearoa/New Zealand Alistair Fox Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372544 In this academic but engaging study of masculinity in contemporary New Zealand fiction, Alistair Fox of the University…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Andrew Fieldsend, Issue 84, Otago University Press, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Issue 84 Summer 2008
Volume 18 | Number 4 | Issue 84 | Summer 2008 Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway; “Going online” (Editorial) Obituary: Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955-2008) Martin Edmond: Brian Turner, Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany Sue McCauley: Duncan…
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…
Meeting the ancestors, Peter Wells
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