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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,…
Poem – David Eggleton
The Book Reviewer His tatty raincoat conceals a country, rolled-up sleeves reveal many wristwatches. He airily waves away rainbows of neckties and pulls a smoke from a dark pocket. But his book-side manner is a corrupt text, for, though…
The necessity of lying, Mark Williams
Surfaces of Strangeness: Janet Frame and the Rhetoric of Madness Simone Oettli-van Delden Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734565 Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void Paul Sharrad Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403037 For a supposedly puritanical country…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Janet Frame, Mark Williams, Paul Sharrad, Simone Oettli-van Delden, Victoria University Press, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Down by the river, Paul Thompson
Te Awa: Partington’s photographs of Whanganui Maori W H T Partington Godwit, $39.95, ISBN 1869620992 In the introduction to Te Awa, a book of photographs of Whanganui River Maori taken by William Henry Thomas Partington at the start of the…
Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 62, Paul Thompson, W H T Partington, William Partington, Winter 2003
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Editorial – Issue 62
First person singular It’s often said that everyone has a novel inside them. That they have, of course, is a story – their own story – and nowadays the popular way of telling it is not as fiction, thinly disguised…
Kino Hughes’s legacy, Paul Wolffram
Songs of a Kaumatua: Sung by Kino Hughes Mervyn McLean & Margaret Orbell Auckland University Press, $89.95, ISBN 1869402588 Songs of a Kaumatua was initiated by Kino Hughes, the remarkable personality at the centre of this book. Hughes was born…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Margaret Orbell, Mervyn McLean, Paul Wolffram, Winter 2003
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
All credit to the team, Garth Baker
Century in Black: 100 Years of All Black Test Rugby Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, $69.99, ISBN 1869589378 Heritage: Golden Years of All Black Rugby Paul Verdon Hill-Verdon Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0958238707 All Black Magic; 100 years of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Bob Howitt, Diane Haworth, Garth Baker, HarperSports, Hill-Verdon Publishing, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 62, John Matheson, Lindsay Knight, Paul Thomas, Paul Verdon, Penguin Books, Ron Palenski, Winter 2003
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Sharpening the blade, Anna Livesey
Someone else’s life Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1869403045 Rat Tickling James Norcliffe Sudden Valley Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958209146 How To Occupy Ourselves David Howard and Fiona Pardington HeadworX, $29.95, ISBN 0473-094363 Someone else’s life is a sort…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, David Howard, Fiona Pardington, HeadworX, Issue 62, James Norcliffe, Kapka Kassabova, Sudden Valley Press, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A demon for work, Lydia Wevers
An Unsettled Spirit: The Life & Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G B Lancaster) Terry Sturm Auckland University Press, $44.95, ISBN 1869402944 I first came across G B Lancaster in the reading room of the Mitchell Library in Sydney.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Edith Lyttleton, G B Lancaster, Issue 62, Lydia Wevers, Terry Sturm, Winter 2003
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Lord of the wings, Roger Robinson
Sky Dancer Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018698 If Witi Ihimaera is a national treasure, he is an impishly unpredictable one. At an age when he could be securely serene, he persists with youthful glee in taking literary risks. With…
Tagged with: Issue 62, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Winter 2003, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review