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Obituary — Alan Preston
Alan Preston (1932-2004) As I write this, in one week exactly it will be Alan’s birthday. On October 29 Alan would have celebrated 72 years. Thus I have been spared the annual brain-wracking for a suitable present. Alan, you…
Sisterhood is powerful, Robyn Munford
No Friend Like a Sister: Exploring the Relationship between Sisters Jenny Neale Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734700 No Friend Like a Sister gives a rich account of the relationships between sisters. Jenny Neale used focus groups (women aged between…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jenny Neale, Robyn Munford, Victoria University Press, Winter 2004
Posted in Review, Sociology
Posted in Review, Sociology
Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Shadbolt 1932-2004 Writer Maurice Shadbolt died in Taumaranui in October after a long illness. He worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter before going to Europe in the late 50s. Two years later he published his first book, a…
Full lives and f words, William Taylor
Malcolm and Juliet Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135941 Out of Tune Joanna Orwin Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135909 Coming Back David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783868 Dark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135968 On a Good…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Deborah Burnside, Issue 66, Joanna Orwin, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Penguin, William Taylor, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Letters – Issue 66
One of the Porlock people Patrick Evans makes a convincing argument in the most recent Journal of New Zealand Literature (“Dr Clutha’s Book of the World: Janet Patterson Frame, 1924-2004”) that “taking control of her own life-story” was a significant…
Life in detail, Lydia Wevers
Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams ed Caroline Fitzgerald Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019295 It is always the detail of the past that brings it most sharply to mind. William Colenso’s observation in the 1880s that…
Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Issue 66, Lydia Wevers, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Moments of triumph, Joan Rosier-Jones
Transit of Venus Rowan Metcalfe Huia, $31.95, ISBN 1869690834 Love in Shades of Grey Glynne MacLean Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019309 Like Small Bones Ruth Pettis Hazard Press, $24.99, ISBN 1877270784 A first novel does not just appear. It is usually…
Tagged with: Glynne MacLean, Hazard Press, Huia, Issue 66, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Rowan Metcalfe, Ruth Pettis, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Tim Jones
The Translator Shutting out the torment and the fear deep into the night’s cold morning hours I work on my translation. Improbable, that in another tongue such lines as these were born, set down, are vivid on his page…
JMT rules, ok, Laurence Jenkins
John Mansfield Thomson: Notes towards a Biography ed Margaret Clark with Jim Collinge and Martin Lodge Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228923 Those of us who crossed paths with John Mansfield Thomson, and there are legions, inevitably came away from any…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jim Collinge, John Mansfield Thomson, Margaret Clark, Martin Lodge, Steele Roberts, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review