The Body of Man David Herkt Hazard Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908 790 73 2 Stuck up John Dolan Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 186940 120 4 Retaining Wall Claire Matthewson Whitireia Publishing, $19.95 ISBN 0 473 031329 Literature is…
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Poem — Elizabeth Smither
Poem — Leonard Lambert
Electricities: Work in progress, Gregory O’Brien
I am sitting in an Auckland dealer gallery pondering some photographs of Michael Smither’s paintings, including one New Plymouth public garden scene called “Poet’s Bridge”, the title of which strikes an encouraging note – there can’t be too many such…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Winter 1995
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Art, Literature, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
(Not?) fading, Colin James
Cuttings David Lange, Jonathan Hudson and Associates, no price given Ex-Prime Ministers can be a nuisance. Edward Heath pricked at Margaret Thatcher who demeaned John Major. Sir Keith Holyoake connived at the supplanting of his successor by Sir Robert Muldoon…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Colin James, David Lange, Issue 17, Jonathan Hudson and Associates, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Now for Spinoza, Neville Bennett
Pure Broadway, Roger Robinson
Nights in the Gardens of Spain Witi Ihimaera, Secker & Warburg, $34.95 On the way home years ago after seeing Waituhi (the Witi Ihimaera/ Ross Harris opera), I remember remarking that Witi could someday write the book for a great…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Issue 17, Roger Robinson, Secker & Warburg, Winter 1995, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Something rich and strange, David Groves
Stand Alone Stan, vol 2 of the quartet A Land Fit for Heroes Phillip Mann, Victor Gollancz, price not available This is Phillip Mann’s seventh book of fiction, an imaginative and philosophically coherent body of work, spanning over a decade.…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1995, David Groves, Issue 17, Phillip Mann, Victor Gollancz, Winter 1995
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
And a partridge (or not), Neville Bennett
Science is wonderful. Only this week I hear some clever Americans have transplanted a gene from an Antarctic fish into a tomato. Apparently we will not get a tomato with scales or fins but one that is not frost tender.…
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