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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
Hills, weather, houses, Norman Bilbrough
Why Go To The Riviera: Images of Wellington Peter Shaw Godwit, $99.95, ISBN 1869621018 When Evelyn Page arrived in Wellington in 1947 she was captured by the capital’s energy and bustle. She often painted scenes from her car, even obtaining…
Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 62, Norman Bilbrough, Peter Shaw, Winter 2003
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
A stitch-up, Louise O’Brien
Hummingbird James George Huia, $34.95, ISBN 1877283665 The Mango’s Kiss Albert Wendt Vintage, $34.95, ISBN 1869415809 Hummingbird, James George’s second and very readable novel, recounts the unlikely convergence of four sharply drawn characters, who, for very different reasons, find themselves…
Letters — Issue 62
Well said, Elspeth! Congratulations to Elspeth Sandys on her Comment piece in the December New Zealand Books, “In search of the ‘good’ writer”. My own choice of a good writer but not so good human being would have been Evelyn…
Girl behind the good keen man, Jane Tolerton
When did I first see the cover of Jean Watson’s Stand in he Rain – that strong, elegant black cover with a woman looking as if she has been doing exactly that? And the photograph of the author on the…
Writers off the page, Jane Stafford
Posted in Comment