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Paranoia, violence and moral reckoning, Hamish Clayton
The Quiet Earth Craig Harrison Text, $16.00, ISBN 9781922147059 Over the last few years Melbourne-based Text Publishing has done a good job of bringing back to mainstream attention some of the “lost marvels of our literature”, republishing books that count…
Tagged with: Craig Harrison, Hamish Clayton, Issue 104, Summer 2013, Text
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Behind the passionate eye, Peter Calder
Self-portrait Marti Friedlander with Hugo Manson Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869407841 One day we will all be just a photograph, Marti Friedlander tells us in the closing pages of this entertaining and readable memoir. Coming as it does from…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Hugo Manson, Issue 104, Marti Friedlander, Peter Calder, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
The ties that bind, Jane Westaway
The Lie That Settles Peter Farrell Ocean Books, $35.00, ISBN 978192721708 The Lost Pilot Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9781742539201 A History of Silence Lloyd Jones Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143569473 “The cradle rocks above an abyss,” writes Nabokov in…
Tagged with: Issue 104, Jane Westaway, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Lloyd Jones, Ocean Books, Penguin, Peter Farrell, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Opening the ears, Ross Somerville
How to Hear Classical Music Davinia Caddy Awa Press, $26.00, ISBN 9781877551000 At the end of June this year in Wellington, Michael Houstoun presented the centrepiece of his Beethoven Recycled series of piano recitals, in which he was playing the…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Davinia Caddy, Issue 104, Ross Somerville, Summer 2013
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
The limits of light, Richard Millington
Celanie: Poems and Drawings after Paul Celan Jack Ross (poems), Emma Smith (drawings) Pania Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473224844 Among the measures of esteem for the poetry of Paul Celan (1920-1970), the number, calibre and dedication of his translators are probably…
Tagged with: Emma Smith, Issue 104, Jack Ross, Pania Press, Paul Celan, Richard Millington, Summer 2013
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Mending and pairing, Heather Roberts
The Writing Class Stephanie Johnson Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9781775532590 The Last Days of the National Costume Anne Kennedy Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781743313862 Two writers of a similar age and stage in the development of their writing careers,…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Anne Kennedy, Heather Roberts, Issue 104, Random House, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Changes of heart and mind, John McCrystal
Pentimento Rosemary Wildblood Wily Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9781927167090 The Fall of Light Sarah Laing Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775533030 Settling into a novel can be a lot like going away on holiday with people you don’t know, or settling into a…
Tagged with: Issue 104, John McCrystal, Rosemary Wildblood, Sarah Laing, Summer 2013, Vintage, Wily Publications
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Room at the top, David Grant
White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the Rise of White-collar Unions Mark Derby Craig Potton, $40.00, ISBN 9781877517174 Dan Long was an esteemed public servant and political and union activist from the late 1950s until his premature death in 1976, aged…
Tagged with: Craig Potton, Dan Long, David Grant, Issue 104, Mark Derby, Summer 2013
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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