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A complicated relationship, Thom Conroy
The Ice Shelf Anne Kennedy Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562015 What role does a book invite me to accept as its reader? I need not comply with a book’s request, of course, but I’m bound to recognise or, at…
Tagged with: Anne Kennedy, Autumn 2019, Issue 125, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Words uncaged, Tim Upperton
How to Defeat the Philistines David Beach David Beach, $25.00, ISBN 9780473426163 Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561872 A Fine Morning at Passchendaele Kevin Ireland Steele Roberts, $25.00, ISBN 9780947493677 Poetic forms are a bit like…
Tagged with: David Beach, Harry Ricketts, Issue 124, Kevin Ireland, Steele Roberts, Summer 2018, Tim Upperton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Back in the day, Chris Else
Tane’s War Brendaniel Weir Cloud Ink Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473415648 Gone to Pegasus Tess Redgrave Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780473419196 Rotoroa Amy Head Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561919 Over the last ten years or so, the number of established New…
Tagged with: Amy Head, Brendaniel Weir, Chris Else, Cloud Ink Press, Issue 124, Submarine, Summer 2018, Tess Redgrave, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
With thanks, Jane Westaway
Memory Pieces Maurice Gee Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776562077 Anyone who has taken even a passing interest in Maurice Gee’s long career must be aware that his childhood has been the ongoing imaginative source of his fiction, and that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Maurice Gee, Summer 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction
Wrestling with the past, Gwynaeth McIntyre
Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561766 Athens to Aotearoa’s cover image, Herakles Wrestles the Taniwha, epitomises the very essence of…
Tagged with: Diana Burton, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Issue 123, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
A study of politically enforced self-restraint, Janet McLean
In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy Elizabeth McLeay Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561841 As I write, the sitting president of the United States of America is reported to be seriously contemplating the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 123, Janet McLean, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Yearning and erasure, John Horrocks
He’s so MASC Chris Tse Auckland University Press, $30.00, ISBN 1781869408879 The Facts Therese Lloyd Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776561810 Dark Days at the Oxygen Café James Norcliffe Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781776560837 (more…)…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Tse, Issue 123, James Norcliffe, John Horrocks, Spring 2018, Therese Lloyd, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Fathoms deep, James Robins
The New Ships Kate Duignan Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561889 It’s a deeply distressing thing to find the word “bugger” on the first page of a New Zealand writer’s novel. Rather like opening some French fiction to discover “sacré…
Tagged with: Issue 123, James Robins, Kate Duignan, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Unthawing, Hugh Roberts
Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908-1945 John Newton Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561629 Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature Erin Mercer Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560851 If there is a better…
Tagged with: Erin Mercer, Hugh Roberts, Issue 123, John Newton, Spring 2018, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Championing indigenous art histories, Stella Ramage
Colonial Gothic to Māori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Conal McCarthy and Mark Stocker (eds) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9781776561094 The Gedenkschrift – essays by colleagues collected in posthumous commemoration of an esteemed academic – is an…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Conal McCarthy, Issue 121, Mark Stocker, Stella Ramage, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review