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Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal 

Posted on December 3, 2018 by NZ Books
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9780143771562 You don’t have to be a good old-fashioned structuralist to look into the patterns of history and see the tectonic grind of ideas reflected in the rippling of…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Connecting kindred tribes, David Eggleton

Posted on November 29, 2017 by NZ Books
Black Marks on the White Page Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti (eds) Penguin Random House, $40.00, ISBN 9780143770299 Billed as a guidebook to the contemporary literature of Oceania, Black Marks on the White Page is not quite that; it’s too…
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Posted in Art, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Pacific, Short stories

“We talked and we argued to keep ourselves alive”, Tina Makereti

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books
For Someone I Love – A Collection of Writing Arapera Blank Anton Blank Ltd, $40.00, ISBN 9780473299187 For Someone I Love is aptly titled, for the immediate impression is of the immense devotion Arapera and Pius Blank had to each…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review, Short stories

Genesis of a Māori writer, Tina Makereti

Posted on June 9, 2015 by NZ Books
Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9781869797263 It is sometimes useful, in reading a review, to have some sense of the reviewer’s positioning in relation to the material. After all, the New Zealand literary community…
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

The dangers of pre-existing narratives, Jane Stafford 

Posted on May 29, 2014 by NZ Books
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775535188 Twentieth- and 21st-century New Zealand literature contains two utterly different narratives, each incorporating an almost diametrically opposed world view. On the one hand, there is the Pakeha narrative of…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

What am I doing here? Nicholas Reid

Posted on June 1, 2011 by NZ Books
A Man Melting Craig Cliff Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869791926   Everything We Hoped For Pip Adam Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736253   Once upon a Time in Aotearoa Tina Makereti Huia, $30.00, ISBN 978186969166   He ran his right…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories
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