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Hot gospels and wowserism, Paul Morris
The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736543 Theology no longer forms part of a university education in the social sciences or humanities, where…
Tagged with: Geoffrey Troughton, Hugh Morrison, Issue 100, Paul Morris, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Matters of form, Julia Marshall
Julia Marshall of Gecko Press wonders about the future of the book as artefact. Recently, Frances, in charge of Gecko Press accounts, went to get her daily coffee at The Jimmy in Wellington and was asked where she worked. On…
The invisible hand, Margot Schwass
The Occupiers: New Zealand Veterans Remember Post-war Japan Alison Parr Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143567240 In Love and War: Kiwi Soldiers’ Romantic Encounters in Wartime Italy Susan Jacobs Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567554 I detoured into these two books while…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Issue 100, Margot Schwass, Penguin Books, Summer 2012, Susan Jacobs
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Cashing up, Jane Westaway
Jane Westaway sells a book and wonders how. Eleven years ago I published a novel. Last Wednesday I received my latest royalty statement. Somewhere out there, I understand, are authors who, along with their statements, get cheques that go some…
Poem – Peter Bland
We call it winter We call it winter, this Northland chill with its one-bar heater, its woollen cap, its hint of frost on the roof. But you have to laugh when you think of Eskimos crowding round a whale-oil…
Poem – Harry Ricketts
At the Frankfurt Book Fair: a triolet We do our best to do our stuff, our quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle. A Lion in the Meadow meets Alan Duff: We do our best to do our stuff. The things…
Only the lonely, Timothy G Jones
The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction Doreen D’Cruz and John C Ross Rodopi, €85.00, ISBN 9789042034747 Loneliness holds a special place in New Zealand literature. If there is a single image that casts…
Tagged with: Doreen D’Cruz, Issue 100, John C Ross, Rodopi, Summer 2012, Timothy G Jones
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Obsolescence is just the beginning, Peter Simpson
Director of The Holloway Press Peter Simpson celebrates the joy of letterpress. The Holloway Press is dedicated to letterpress printing, a technology rendered largely obsolete by the dawn of the digital age. Letterpress printing – that is, the direct impression…
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Getting it covered, Jenny Nicholls
Posted in Comment, ebooks, Media