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Issue 87 | Spring 2009
Volume 19 | Number 3 | Issue 87 | Spring 2009 Letters Harry Ricketts: Jenny Bornholdt, The Rocky Shore Sue McCauley: Fiona Kidman, Beside the Dark Pool Michael Hulse: Vincent O’Sullivan, Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998-2008 Murray Bramwell: Janet…
Electoral debate, Jonathan Boston
Taking it to the People? The New Zealand Electoral Referendum Debate, Alan McRobie (ed), Hazard Press, $29.95 This book is about the continuing debate over electoral reform in New Zealand. It brings together a wide array of material (all of…
Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Hazard Press, Issue 9, Jonathan Boston, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Poem — Harry Ricketts
Separation What you find with separation is everyone else had been predicting it for ages; they just hadn’t got around to letting you know. Michael, for instance, leading such a fast life in New York that you receive a…
Silver threads, Verna Schofield
New Zealand’s Ageing Society: The Implications Peggy G Koopman-Boyden (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 The debate on the role of the State in caring for our ageing population is intensifying. Already in the past year, the Government has…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Peggy G Koopman-Boyden, Verna Schofield, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Four-colour collations, Gavin McLean
Michael Fowler’s University of Auckland Michael Fowler, Mallinson Rendel, $49.95 Nelson Observed; Portraits of a New Zealand Province Christopher B Vine, The Nelson Institute, price not indicated The all-colour book of regional paintings and sketches used to be a mainstay…
Tagged with: Christopher B Vine, Gavin McLean, Issue 9, Mallinson Rendel, Michael Fowler, The Nelson Institute, Winter 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The Independent Outlook, Lauris Edmond
This is the text of a graduation address given to the School of Humanities, Waikato University, in April this year. There was a time when New Zealanders were, or appeared to be, a peaceful people. We did what we…
Blessed nativity, Anne French
Childbirth Choices Adrienne Bennett, Wendi Etherington, Daphne Hewson, Penguin, $34.95 There is a baby on the cover of this book, a little baby; dressed in a white cotton gown, bathed in warm light, peacefully asleep. That is the desired end…
Tagged with: Adrienne Bennett, Anne French, Daphne Hewson, Issue 9, Penguin, Wendi Etherington, Winter 1993
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Pious historians, pioneer ancestors, Rose Lovell-Smith
Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of North Canterbury Janet Holm, Hazard Press, $59.95 The Voyage of the ‘May Queen’ Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, price not given In 1859 George Rutherford bought the lease of a largish…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Janet Holm, Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Raising Questions, Paul Millar
Witi Ihimaera: A Changing Vision Umelo Ojinmah, University of Otago Press, $24.95 I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame Judith Dell Panny, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 Signs are that New Zealand literature is in good…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Judith Dell Panny, Otago University Press, Paul Millar, Umelo Ojinmah, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Nature’s nurture, Phillip Mann
Natural Healing in New Zealand Chris Cooper, Random House, $24.95 Whether it be the result of successive governments tinkering with the National Health system or the much heralded coming of the Age of Aquarius, the fact is that in…
Tagged with: Chris Cooper, Issue 9, Phillip Mann, Random House, Winter 1993
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review