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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…

Tagged with: Issue 124, John McCrystal, Summer 2018, Tina Makereti, Vintage
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…

Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 120, Penguin Random House, Summer 2017, Tina Makereti, Witi Ihimaera
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…

Tagged with: Anton Blank Ltd, Arapera Blank, Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Tina Makereti
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…

Tagged with: Issue 110, Tina Makereti, Vintage, Winter 2015, Witi Ihimaera
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…

Tagged with: Issue 106, Jane Stafford, Tina Makereti, Vintage, Winter 2014
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…

Tagged with: Craig Cliff, Huia, Issue 94, Nicholas Reid, Pip Adam, Tina Makereti, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2011
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories