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Issue 104 | Summer 2013
Volume 23 | Number 4 | Issue 104 | Summer 2013 Letters Roger Robinson: Damien Wilkins, Max Gate Gregory O’Brien: “Fireflies in the Twilight” (Imprints) Julia Millen: Angela Wanhalla, Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in…
Thomas Hardy’s heart, Roger Robinson
Max Gate Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738998 Thomas Hardy often wrote about death’s little ironies. There’s a poem in the voice of a dead and forgotten woman whose dog, who has also forgotten her, is burying his…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 104, Roger Robinson, Summer 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fireflies in the twilight, Gregory O’Brien
Painter and poet Gregory O’Brien reflects on Jean Arp’s Collected French Writings. i was born in nature … i have four natures. i have two things. i have five senses. sense and non-sense. nature is senseless. make way for nature.…
Love and land, Julia Millen
Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Angela Wanhalla Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869407315 In Christchurch, May 1970, Stan Wanhalla (Irish, German and Maori ancestry) married Coralie Noonan (Irish, Manx heritage): one of many…
Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Auckland University Press, Issue 104, Julia Millen, Summer 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Diagnostic criteria, Rae Varcoe
Being a Doctor: Understanding Medical Practice Hamish Wilson and Wayne Cunningham Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578366 I have been a doctor for 45 years. How I wish that this volume had been available 46 years ago. I emerged from…
Tagged with: Hamish Wilson, Issue 104, Otago University Press, Rae Varcoe, Summer 2013, Wayne Cunningham
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Time’s wingèd chariot, Mark Houlahan
Us, Then Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780867438929 The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-20013 Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869407698 Life and Customs Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864739001 “But at my back I always hear…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Ian Wedde, Issue 104, Mark Houlahan, Summer 2013, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
It’s a knockout, Spiro Zavos
Fighting Talk: Boxing and the Modern Lexicon Bob Jones Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781775534389 Bob Jones – aka Sir Robert – has written an engrossing book on the fight game. It is satisfying intellectually and emotionally. It involves an original…
Tagged with: Bob Jones, Issue 104, Random House, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2013
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
War means stories, David Hill
Ambiguity and Innocence: The New Zealand Division and the Occupation of Trieste, May 1945 Tony Simpson Silver Owl Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780986451980 The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and its Consequences Glyn Harper and John Tonkin-Covell Allen and Unwin,…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, David Hill, Glyn Harper, Issue 104, John Tonkin-Covell, Silver Owl Press, Summer 2013, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
The inequality divide, Tim Hazledine
Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis Max Rashbrooke (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781927131510 Judgements of All Kinds: Economic Policy-Making in New Zealand 1945-1984 Jim McAloon Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738974 Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis is more than…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 104, Jim McAloon, Max Rashbrooke, Summer 2013, Tim Hazledine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology