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Issue 92 | Summer 2010
Volume 20 | Number 4 | Issue 92 | Summer 2010 Letters Mark Williams: Patrick Evans, Gifted Roger Robinson: Kathleen Jones, Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller C K Stead: “Back then (but briefly)” (poem) Anna Rogers: Lydia Wevers, Reading on…
Letters – Issue 92
Arts and evolution In NZB (Winter 2010), Chris Else claims in regard to Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct and Brian Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories, that “an evolutionary explanation of art, seductive though it might be to the reductive…
Poem – Anne French
Marine maintenance CRC for the seized zip on my sailing bag. Dry Glide for the spinnaker snatch block. Rescue tape for the roller round the baby stay. Dry Glide for the frozen hank on the No 1. Jif for…
Poem – Nicola Slee
The Maori Christa Maybe I’ve seen her in Auckland, late at night in some bar on the Karangahape Road, a little drunk, her eyes all on fire, singing the songs of her people to a guitar’s thick strum. Or up…
Fiction’s odd couple, Mark Williams
Gifted Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736376 A curious rumour about this new novel by Patrick Evans preceded its publication. The rumour was that Evans had done something exceptionally good and it came from people one didn’t…
Tagged with: Frank Sargeson, Issue 92, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Patrick Evans, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Careful sympathy, Roger Robinson
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller Kathleen Jones Viking, $65.00, ISBN 9780670074358 Let’s hear Katherine Mansfield speak first: The cleanliness of Switzerland! Darling, it is frightening. The chastity of my lily-white bed! The waxy-fine floors! The huge bouquet of white lilac,…
Tagged with: Issue 92, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Jones, Roger Robinson, Summer 2010, Viking
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – C K Stead
Back then (but briefly) Reading Sam’s poem while Charlotte’s cat ecstatic nudges, kneads, roars her purr in my right ear and the page speaks about age how much loved and by how many back then and ‘the force that through…
Reading the past, Anna Rogers
Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736352 The big sheep and cattle stations of 19th-century New Zealand and books were tough, physical, practical places, where men (and a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 92, Lydia Wevers, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
On a lee shore, Anne French
Blue Water: Salt-encrusted Stories of a Life at Sea Lindsay Wright HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781869509002 “ ‘Let’s sail to the Arctic next spring,’ I suggested to Sarah … She gave me a long, cool look … ‘Okay, if you…
Tagged with: Anne French, HarperCollins, Issue 92, Lindsay Wright, Summer 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
In plain sight, Martin Edmond
Report on Experience: John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736192 In Keats’s last letter, sent from Rome to his friend Charles Brown in England three months before he died, he writes of his “habitual feeling…
Tagged with: Issue 92, John Mulgan, Martin Edmond, Peter Whiteford, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
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