Wakeful Nights: Poems Selected and New Fiona Kidman, Vintage, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 New and Selected Poems Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Time Zones Fleur Adcock, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 In their range and assurance these volumes…
Eileen Mayo, Painter/ Designer National Library of New Zealand, PO Box 1467, Wellington, $29.70 The inspiriting exhibition of Eileen Mayo’s work in the National Library Gallery is matched by this impeccably produced and stylish catalogue, which faithful to its subject…
Southern Voices; international singers of New Zealand Adrienne Simpson and Peter Downes, Reed Books, Auckland, 1992, $45 The timing of Adrienne Simpson’s and Peter Downes’s admirable Southern Voices could hardly be more propitious. With opera in New Zealand once again approaching the level…
The events that occurred on and about Chunuk Bair, a remote hill on the Gallipoli peninsula, on 7 and 8 August 1915, have been widely celebrated, at least in Australia and New Zealand, where they have achieved something of the status…
The End of the Golden Weather directed by Ian Mune This is not a film review. Movie buffs please note. It is a reflection on a key work in the corpus of New Zealand literature and the use which a…
Edge of The Earth; Stories and Images from the Antipodes Vincent Ward (with Alison Carter, Geoff Chapple and Louis Nowra), Reed, Auckland, 1990, $34.95 The appearance and title of this loosely strung together collection of prose pieces, photographs and film stills,…
Visitors who arrive at Mangere airport see their first piece of New Zealand sculpture as they leave the main terminal building: the eight-foot-high bronze figure of a young lean Batten as she stretches on tip-toe, waving to the crowd, reaching for…