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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
For God, King and country, Chris Else
Tu Patricia Grace Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019201 Certain battles mark themselves on the popular imagination. The most evocative are often not great victories but failed assaults, especially those with a touch of futility about them: the Charge of the Light…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Issue 66, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Kiwi footprints, Duncan Campbell
Embracing the Dragon: A Woman’s Journey Along the Great Wall of China Polly Greeks Awa Press, $29.95, ISBN 095825091X Kidnapped in Yemen Mary Quin Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869416228 Travel elsewhere, we’ve long been told, broadens the mind through an…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 66, Mary Quin, Polly Greeks, Random House, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Primitive satisfaction, Norman Bilbrough
The Real Thing Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783825 Seal Boy Ken Catran Random, $16.95, ISBN 1869416112 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135976 Colin Goes Bush Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Brian Falkner, Eirlys Hunter, Issue 66, Ken Catran, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Norman Bilbrough, Random, Sandy McKay, Scholastic, Winter 2004
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Editorial – Issue 66
How not to run a book launch It’s one of life’s great mysteries why, when many publishers are cutting back on book launches on the grounds that they don’t cover their own costs, invitations to these events continue to pile…
Hearing the voice, James Norcliffe
The Singing Harp Iain Sharp Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420365 The Dwarf and the Stripper and other poems Stephen Sinclair Addenda, $19.95, ISBN 095821865X To … Bill Dacker Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420357 Many…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bill Dacker, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Iain Sharp, Issue 66, James Norcliffe, Stephen Sinclair, Winter 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unprickling the pair, Spiro Zavos
The Prickly Pear: Making Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand Denis McLean University of Otago Press, $49.95, ISBN 18772776472 About 20 year ago I was sitting at my desk at The Sydney Morning Herald wondering what I would write for…
Tagged with: Denis McLean, Issue 66, Otago University Press, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Shock, horror on the colonial frontier, Bronwyn Dalley
Captured by Maori: White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-century New Zealand Frontier Trevor Bentley Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019236 Nineteenth-century writers of broadsheets would have had a field day with the title and cover of Trevor Bentley’s new…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 66, Penguin, Trevor Bentley, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
A million miles from Palmerston North, Linley Boniface
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific Graeme Lay Awa Press, $29.95, ISBN 0958250901 Liars and Lovers: A Travel Memoir Diane Brown Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869416147 As a child, I used to read adventure stories featuring…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Diane Brown, Graeme Lay, Issue 66, Linley Boniface, Vintage, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review