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Framing ourselves, Sean Redmond

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

A Coming of Age: Thirty Years of New Zealand Film Duncan Petrie and Duncan Stuart Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869790196 Images of Dignity: Barry Barclay and Fourth Cinema Stuart Murray Huia, $50.00, ISBN 9781869693282 The two books under review provide…

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Stabs of recognition, Joanne Drayton

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Getting There: An Autobiography Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press, $50.00,  ISBN 9780864735904 Each weekday morning Barbara Anderson sets off for the office. Her routine is ritualised.  She buys lunch, drinks a cup of coffee while she casts an eye over…

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Poem – Anne French

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

On the way  for Geoff Park   On the way to Mein Street, everyone  seems unnaturally well and strong.   That elegant girl, swinging her bag as she crosses the road in front of me;   that lean school-boy, slouching…

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A less than perky light, Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Gith Chris Else Random House, $27.99, ISBN 9781869790134 Show of Hands Anthony McCarten Random House, $29.99, ISBN 9781869419950 Swimmer’s Rope  Stephanie Johnson Random House, $29.99, ISBN 9781869790257 At the first look there’s not much to tie these three novels together.…

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Obituary — Geoff Park

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Geoff Park (1946-2009) I heard about Geoff Park long before I actually met him. David Young and Peter Horsley had told me about him, so I already knew about his energy and passion for plants and landscape, and the unusual…

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Doubles and damage, Geoff Miles

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

The Magician of Hoad Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506872 The Magician of Hoad takes Margaret Mahy into new territory – new for her at least. Her earlier YA novels were set in the real world. A highly-coloured version of…

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Poem – Heather McPherson

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

At Rangiora’s Ashley Street Cemetery   This graveyard’s a bit like the one  where we buried my mum and dad. Oldish,  a small town Anglican acreage … ours    used to seem huge. But after farms on the state  house…

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Letters – Issue 86

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Sappho and the unspeakable If I’m a little surprised that Alan Loney joined up with the “moth to flame” industry about Sappho – which is probably little different from the industry round Homer, Virgil, Dante, Virginia Woolf or Emily Dickinson,…

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Hyde and seek, Timothy G Jones

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde  Mary Edmond-Paul (ed) Otago University Press, $40.00,  ISBN 978877372582  Robin Hyde’s 1938 essay “The Singers of Loneliness”, published out of Shanghai in the T’ien Hsia Monthly, gives an account of the New Zealand…

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Issue 86 | Winter 2009

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

  Volume 19 | Number 2 | Issue 86 | Winter 2009 Letters Geoff Miles: Margaret Mahy, The Magician of Hoad Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Chris Else, Gith; Anthony McCarten, Show of Hands; Stephanie Johnson, Swimmer’s Rope Joanne Drayton: Barbara Anderson, Getting…

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