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Rethinking the past, Melissa Laing
Re-inventing New Zealand: Essays on the Arts and the Media Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780992245382 As I opened a blank document to begin this review, a tweet popped up in my feed from Morgan Godfery: “Sure,” Godfery writes…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 116, Melissa Laing, Roger Horrocks, Summer 2016
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Poetry and the poem, Michael Hulse
Selected Poems Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560660 If I begin by saying that Jenny Bornholdt gives the impression of being a very modest person, it’s not because this review is to be an assessment of her character,…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Jenny Bornholdt, Michael Hulse, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A late flowering, Peter Russell
Karl Wolfskehl: Three Worlds / Drei Welten: Selected Poems: German and English Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood (trans) Cold Hub Press, $45.00, ISBN 9780473358679 This book is a triumph: a triumph of the translator’s art, and a triumph in…
Tagged with: Andrew Paul Wood, Cold Hub Press, Friedrich Voit, Issue 116, Peter Russell, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Gold-panning history, Paul Moon
Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (eds) Otago University Press, $45.00 ISBN 9781877578540 Since 1887, when Vincent Pyke’s History of the Early Gold Discoveries in Otago was…
Tagged with: Issue 116, Lloyd Carpenter, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, Paul Moon, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Music boxes and willows, Edmund Bohan
The Song Journey T E Scott Scott Publishing, $37.00, ISBN 9780473328863 Napoleon’s Willow Joan Norlev Taylor RSVP Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9780987658784 One of the attractions of historical fiction is its infinite variety. For far too long in New Zealand’s curious…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 116, Joan Norlev Taylor, RSVP Publishing, Scott Publishing, Summer 2016, T E Scott
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Undesirables and worthies, John O’Leary
The Girl Who Stole Stockings: The True Story of Susannah Noon and the Women of the Convict Ship Friends Elsbeth Hardie Australian Teachers of Media, $40.00, ISBN 9781876467241 May Your Shadow Never Grow Less: The Life and Times of Henry…
Tagged with: Australian Teachers of Media, Elsbeth Hardie, Fraser Books, Helen Thomas, Issue 116, John O’Leary, Summer 2016
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Letters of aroha and respect, Olivia Bennett
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 1877228206 “The art of walking upright here is the art of using both feet”. For many New Zealanders, the very essence of being Kiwi is being part of a…
Tagged with: Glenn Colquhoun, Issue 116, Olivia Bennett, Steele Roberts, Summer 2016
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, YA Reviewers
Shining a transformative light, Sarah Quigley
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560707 At a time when much of Europe is preoccupied with redefining – and defending – boundaries, New Zealand is…
Tagged with: Cherie Lacey, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Sarah Quigley, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Walking in more than one world, Paula Morris
Being Chinese Helene Wong Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780947492380 Going Places: Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand Julie Fry and Hayden Glass BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780947492694 The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000 BC – AD 1450…
Tagged with: Atholl Anderson, Bridget Williams Books, BWB Texts, Hayden Glass, Helene Wong, Huia, Issue 116, Julie Fry, Linitā Manu’atu, Marilyn McPherson, Mere Kēpa, Paula Morris, Summer 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Something that rises, Ingrid Horrocks
Can You Tolerate This?: Personal Essays Ashleigh Young Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776560769 The title of Wellington poet, blogger, and editor Ashleigh Young’s new collection is a challenge issued in somewhat the same spirit as the title of Hera…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 116, Summer 2016, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review