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Issue 116 | Summer 2016
Volume 26 | Number 4 | Issue 116 | Summer 2016 Elizabeth Aitken-Rose: Penning in a digital world (byline) Ashleigh Young: Margot Roth, Roll on the Revolution … But Not Till After Xmas!: Selected Feminist Writing Ingrid Horrocks: Ashleigh…
Not settled yet, Claudia Jardine
Christchurch Ruptures Katie Pickles BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321292 Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston (eds) Clerestory Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780992251758 When the time came to decide what I would do after…
Tagged with: BWB Texts, Claudia Jardine, Clerestory Press, Issue 116, James Norcliffe, Joanna Preston, Katie Pickles, Summer 2016
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Imaging war, Stella Ramage
Behind the Twisted Wire: New Zealand Artists in World War I Jennifer Haworth Wily Publications, $50.00, ISBN 9781927167212 Recently, I had the privilege of watching the magnificently restored WWI propaganda film, Battle of the Somme (1916). Shot by official cinematographers…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Jennifer Haworth, Stella Ramage, Summer 2016, Wily Publications
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review, War
Christchurch circles and cliques, Helen Watson White
Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9781869408480 When Christchurch poet and printer Denis Glover travelled to Britain in 1941 to serve in the Royal Navy, he left behind one literary circle and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Helen Watson White, Issue 116, Peter Simpson, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Pretence and defence, Melinda Johnston
Bromhead: Scratching a Living Peter Bromhead Penguin Books, $38.00, ISBN 9780143574200 In the Cartoon Archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library there is a marvellous ink caricature captioned “The loveable fun-loving Monsieur Bromhead”. Drawn in 2001 by caricaturist Dinah Priestley (a…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Melinda Johnston, Penguin Books, Peter Bromhead, Summer 2016
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Devouring the monster within, Jon Johansson
Crossing the Floor: The Story of Tariana Turia Helen Leahy Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781775501633 In Helen Leahy’s Crossing the Floor: The Story of Tariana Turia, a tale is told about Tūtaeporoporo, a taniwha taking the form of a shark. Tūtaeporoporo…
Tagged with: Helen Leahy, Huia, Issue 116, Jon Johansson, Summer 2016
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Stories on stage, Mark Houlahan
The Plays of Bruce Mason: A Survey John Smythe Playmarket and Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560554 Here/Now: 8 Plays by Award-Winning New Zealand Playwrights David O’Donnell (ed) Playmarket, $35.00, ISBN 9780908 607594 John Smythe’s survey of the plays of…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Issue 116, John Smythe, Mark Houlahan, Playmarket, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
The blind men and the elephant, Chris Else
Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media David Ciccoricco University of Nebraska Press, $55.00, ISBN 9780803248373 I earn a good part of my living by assessing manuscripts. For a fee, I read a text and write a report on it, which, I…
Tagged with: Chris Else, David Ciccoricco, Issue 116, Summer 2016, University of Nebraska Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
An anatomy of neoliberal angst, Hugh Roberts
Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008 Jennifer Lawn Lexington Books, $95.00, ISBN 9780739177419 The 1984 Labour government’s legacy has been a curious Rorschach test over the years. I can recall talking to my students in classes at…
Tagged with: Hugh Roberts, Issue 116, Jennifer Lawn, Lexington Books, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
A slap in the face with a mohair glove, Anna Jackson
Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776560714 I have been reading Hera Lindsay Bird like a waitress pouring myself into the coffee … and then drinking it all before I get it as far as…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Hera Lindsay Bird, Issue 116, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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