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History’s ghosts, Hugh Roberts
The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Hazard Press, $40.00, ISBN 1877393002 Poems 1946-2005 W H Oliver Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735189 There are few readers now, I imagine, who could guess at more than…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Autumn 2006, Hazard Press, Hugh Roberts, Issue 73, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The gang of five, W H Oliver
Dance of the peacocks: New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung James McNeish Vintage, $34.95, ISBN 1869415647 This is an engaging and readable book. James McNeish tells a multitude of stories about a number…
Tagged with: Issue 60, James McNeish, Summer 2002, Vintage, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The historian’s story, Brian Turner
Looking for the Phoenix – A Memoir W H Oliver Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242985 When W H (Bill) Oliver says that, by and large, New Zealand’s been a “good place” for him, one senses that at times he’s…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 58, W H Oliver, Winter 2002
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Desperate Dan, W H Oliver
Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin ed Janet Wilson Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228249 Before I start on the book, I will allow myself a grumble about the cover. This shows in the foreground a highlighted profile of Dan, characteristically…
Tagged with: Dan Davin, Issue 50, Janet Wilson, October 2001, Steele Roberts, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – W H Oliver
Blue Irises for Lauris Edmond After, appropriately, several false turnings and twice overshooting the mark I was there, on the shorn grass looking around at the hills uncertain, suitably too, which of the freshly turned patches of dirt embraced…
Young Jim, W H Oliver
Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K Baxter’s correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 ed Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 086473400X I began this book thinking that a shorter one might have been enough for a smallish collection of…
Tagged with: Issue 54, James K Baxter, Noel Ginn, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
The weighting game, W H Oliver
Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: revolution, law and legitimation F M Brookfield Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 184 0 Recalling Aotearoa: indigenous politics and ethnic relations in New Zealand Augie Fleras and Paul Spoonley Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Augie Fleras, F M Brookfield, Issue 44, Oxford University Press, Paul Spoonley, W H Oliver
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Muddle and fudge, W H Oliver
Trick or Treaty? Douglas Graham Institute of Policy Studies $22.00 ISBN 0908935 24 2 Justice and the Maori: the philosophy and practice of Maori claims in New Zealand since the 1970s Andrew Sharp 2nd ed, Oxford University Press $45.00 ISBN…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Douglas Graham, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 33, Oxford University Press, W H Oliver
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The shapes of time, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Certainty of Doubt. Tributes to Peter Munz Miles Fairburn and W H Oliver (eds) Victoria University Press, Wellington, $39.95 ISBN 086473302X Immigration is a strange enterprise. In 1966, just off the Northern Star, heading for the exit of the…
Tagged with: Issue 24, Miles Fairburn, Peter Munz, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Marrying the senses, Bill Sewell
Dear Mr Sargeson Riemke Ensing Cape Catley, $19.95 ISBN 0 908561 46 6 Like I Have Seen the Dark Green Ladder Climbing Riemke Ensing The Pear Tree Press, no price given, ISBN 0958344205 Bodily Presence W H Oliver and Anne…
Tagged with: Anne Munoz, Bill Sewell, Cape Catley, Issue 20, Llewelyn Richards, Peter Jacobson, Riemke Ensing, Summer 1995, The Arbor Press, The Hand‑in‑Hand Press, The Pear Tree Press, W H Oliver
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review