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Issue 9 | Winter 1993
Volume 3 | Number 1 | Issue 9 | Winter 1993 Editorial Letters Harry Ricketts: Maurice Shadbolt, One of Ben’s; Keith Sinclair, Halfway Round the Harbour Mary Roberts: James Bertram, Capes of China Slide Away Elizabeth Smither: Maurice Gee,…
Publisher’s Profiles 7, Daphne Brasell Associates, Helen Forlong
The quiet atmosphere in the light-filled, softly carpeted offices of Daphne Brasell Associates in the romantic Wellington suburb of Thorndon belies the frantic pace of a business which has produced at least 40 books from its press, hundreds of government…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Helen Forlong, Issue 9, Winter 1993
Posted in Imprints
Posted in Imprints
The Final Volume, Peter Whiteford
Moontalk Keith Sinclair, Auckland University Press, $19.95 Moontalk is Keith Sinclair’s fifth volume of poetry, coming some twenty years after his last collection, The Firewheel Tree (1973). As the sub-title implies, this volume includes a selection (which the blurb…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Keith Sinclair, Peter Whiteford, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Staging the past, Phillip Mann
Passing Through and other Plays Mervyn Thompson, Hazard Press, Christchurch, $29.95 Daughters of Heaven Michelanne Forster, New Zealand Playscripts, Victoria University Press 1992, $12.95 Joyful and Triumphant Robert Lord, New Zealand Playscripts, Victoria University Press, $14.95 In a recent book…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 9, Mervyn Thompson, Michelanne Forster, New Zealand Playscripts, Phillip Mann, Robert Lord, Victoria University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Letter from Auckland, Iain Sharp
Earlier this year I was asked to write a short profile of Maurice Gee for Pacific Way, the Air New Zealand in-flight magazine. This involved a long-distance call from the Pacific Way office in Auckland to Gee’s home in Wellington…
Poem — Anne French
The poetry reading at the end of the world It is a very big anthology. Everyone in the world who ever wrote a poem is in it. I am, as it happens, represented by something I’d rather forget (that’s…
Green thoughts, Judith Dale
The Garden as a Room: Decorating and Furnishing the New Zealand Garden Robin Shafer, Random House, $39.95 The Dry Garden: Gardening with drought-tolerant plants Jane Taylor, Godwit, $59.95 Delights of Floral Languages, Delights of Lavender, Delights of Little Flowers, Delights…
Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 9, Jane Taylor, Judith Dale, Olive Dunn, Random House, Robin Shafer, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
The loneliness of the short distance columnist, A K Grant
5 Days in Las Vegas Raybon Kan, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $29.95 I must confess to a personal grievance in relation to this book, a collection of pieces, mostly from the Dominion or the Listener, by the gifted young…
Tagged with: A K Grant, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Raybon Kan, Winter 1993
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Alex Scobie
Grandfather Gentle keeper of bees, with walrus Moustache stained by pipe smoke; Falkirk miner, half-blind, Burrowing and blasting shafts Through the Carboniferous Age, Illuminating with his Davy lamp Friezes of centipedes and ferns, Dead a million years ago,…
Fish and Slips, R M McDowall
The Rock Pool Fishes of New Zealand: Te ika aaria o Aotearoa Chris Paulin and Clive Roberts, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, $49.95 This is a beautiful book. For decades, people interested in rock pool fauna and flora…
Tagged with: Chris Paulin, Clive Roberts, Issue 9, Museum of New Zealand, R M McDowell, Te Papa Tongarewa, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
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