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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…
Young Jim, W H Oliver
Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K Baxter’s correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 ed Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 086473400X I began this book thinking that a shorter one might have been enough for a smallish collection of…
Tagged with: Issue 54, James K Baxter, Noel Ginn, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Erick Brenstrum
Choices Anna thinks I should shave my chest Alex thinks not she likes it the way it is a touch of Cro-Magnon of cave bears and skins mammoths and spears tundra and the long arctic night. Anna is six…
The new restlessness, Sarah Quigley
Settler Dreaming Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734247 Porcelain Diana Bridge Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1869402642 The death of Alan Curnow last year seemed to call for some kind of reassessment of our national poetry, and some…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bernadette Hall, Diana Bridge, Issue 54, Sarah Quigley, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The old frisson Elizabeth Caffin
Billie’s Kiss Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734263 Having begun in some reasonably recognisable New Zealand locations, Elizabeth Knox, novelist, may, we now know, take off and land almost anywhere. What is striking about all her work is…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Caffin, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 54, Victoria University Press, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Prophesy and be damned! Alan Horsman
Anno Domini 2000 or Woman’s Destiny Julius Vogel (ed Roger Robinson) Exisle Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0908988168 “There is no such thing as a load of old codswallop … the codswallop is always freshly made,” or at least it needs to…
Tagged with: Alan Horsman, Exisle Publishing, Issue 54, Julius Vogel, Roger Robinson, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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
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Rugby and Fame, Barry Emslie
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