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Issue 54 | August 2002
Volume 12 | Number 3 | Issue 54 | August 2002 David Hill: Jack Lasenby, Kalik Editorial Letters Elizabeth Caffin: Elizabeth Knox, Billie’s Kiss Alan Horsman: Julius Vogel (ed Roger Robinson), Anno Domini 2000 or Woman’s Destiny Don Aimer:…
Issue 50 | October 2001
Volume 11 | Number 4 | Issue 50 | October 2001 Mark Amery: Roger Horrocks, Len Lye: A Biography Janet Charman: “snowing down south” (poem) Editorial Correspondence Patricia Grace on Pinocchio David Howard: “Now here” (poem) Jenny Pattrick: Ann…
Towards stability, Alan McRobie
Proportional Representation on Trial: The 1999 New Zealand General Election and the Fate of MMP Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Jeffrey Karp, Susan Banducci, Raymond Miller & Ann Sullivan Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402650 New Zealand’s voters have been through…
Tagged with: Ann Sullivan, Auckland University Press, Issue 54, Jack Vowles, Jeffrey Karp, Peter Aimer, Raymond Miller, Susan Banducci, Winter 2001
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Less orchid, more snapdragon Max Cryer
Angela: A Wonderful Life Angela D’Audney and Nicky Pellegrino Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018116 In spite of the desperate tabloid-celebrity culture currently fashionable, a New Zealand show-biz biography would seem to be dodgy commercial territory. Biographies of sportsmen: yes. Of politicians:…
Tagged with: Angela D’Audney, Issue 54, Max Cryer, Nicky Pellegrino, Penguin, Winter 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Uppercase craftsmen, Don Aimer
Print and Politics: a History of Trade Unions in the New Zealand Printing Industry 1865-1995 Peter Franks Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734158 I once heard a freezing worker talking about his healthy hatred of the boss and another say…
Tagged with: Don Aimer, Issue 54, Peter Franks, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Poem – Harvey McQueen
A Letter Vanished is the postie’s whistle; with the anthem at the movies & a butcher in every suburb. In today’s letterbox, left by the bronzed lady with strong walk shoes there is a magazine & three letters, one…
Inside information, Lois Daish
New Zealanders at Home. A cultural history of domestic interiors 1814-1914 Anna K C Petersen University of Otago Press, $45.00, ISBN 1877276146 Every now and then, I agree to have my kitchen photographed. And every time what a fuss it…
From the store-house, Andy Dennis
Maori Bird Lore Murdoch Riley Viking Sevenseas NZ Ltd, $89.95, ISBN 0854671005 The reissue of Elsdon Best’s Forest Lore of the Maori in 1977 coincided with my own first attempts at writing about the value of wilderness and the urgent…
Tagged with: Andy Dennis, Issue 54, Murdoch Riley, Viking Sevenseas NZ Ltd, Winter 2001
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
When Tu commands, Les Cleveland
Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Wai-te-ata Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877159115 This sequence of 72 short narrative poems with nine photographs is a loose, anecdotal treatment of the Maori Battalion’s part in World War 2. It also…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Issue 54, Les Cleveland, Wai-te-ata Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Blues in the night, John Allison
Late Love Songs Rob Jackaman Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 1877161446 Music Therapy Peter Olds Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $17.95 ISBN 1869420233 Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 Stephen Oliver HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473073889 I’ve never written a locomotive poem; not…
Tagged with: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Hazard Press, HeadworX, Issue 54, John Allison, Peter Olds, Rob Jackaman, Stephen Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review