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Issue 62 | March 2004
Volume 14 | Number 1 | Issue 62 | March 2004 Garth Baker: Ron Palenski, Century in Black: 100 Years of All Black Test Rugby; Paul Verdon, Heritage: Golden Years of All Black Rugby; Bob Howitt and Diane Haworth,…
Obituary — Ronald Holloway
Ronald Holloway (1909-2003) Ronald Holloway was born in England in 1909, came to New Zealand as a child, and died in an Auckland nursing home on 30 October 2003. There can be few non-writers in New Zealand who had…
Torch under the duvet, Eirlys Hunter
Red Dog in Bandit Country – A true story Bill Redding (as told to Fleur Beale) Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713581X Watermark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135836 Thunder Road Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135879 Two of…
Tagged with: Bill Redding, Eirlys Hunter, Fleur Beale, Issue 62, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Ted Dawe, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
The wit, the cook and the poet, Chris Else
On Writing Hit Songs Simon Morris Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237573 Biography of a Local Palate David Burton Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237581 Under the Influence Bill Manhire Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237565 Reviewing three books at…
Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Chris Else, David Burton, Four Winds Press, Issue 62, Simon Morris, Winter 2003
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Janet Frame
Janet Frame (1924 – 2004) New Zealand’s most celebrated writer, Janet Frame, died in Dunedin in January, two months after being awarded a Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. She was 79. Her first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories,…
Poem – C K Stead
On Fame Quid dedicatum poscit Apollinem Who asks the gods for glory and that his books may be read throughout the world, should recall the one whose prayer was answered, who lived ten years in hiding, lost friends, family,…
NZ Post Book Awards
The shortlist for the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Awards was announced in early February. Finalists are: Junior fiction – The Serpents Of Arakesh: Book One – The Karazan Quartet by V M Jones; My Story: Journey To Tangiwai –…
Taking poetry for a walk, John Allison
Millionaire’s Shortbread Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Kerry Hines University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 187727643X Len & other poems Jo Thorpe Steele Roberts, $$19.95, ISBN 187722894X Soundings Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276383 I once…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Issue 62, Jo Thorpe, John Allison, Kerry Hines, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Mary-Jane Duffy, Otago University Press, Steele Roberts, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
“Something like a cult”, Margaret Clark
Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840-2000 Malcolm McKinnon Auckland University Press, $50, ISBN 1869402960 At the launch of this book a former assistant secretary to the Treasury pointed out to me that this is an administrative history of the Treasury,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Malcolm McKinnon, Margaret Clark, Winter 2003
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Writers off the page, Jane Stafford
Posted in Comment