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Poem – Heather McPherson
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 outskirts…
Letters – Issue 86
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,…
Hyde and seek, Timothy G Jones
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…
Tagged with: Issue 86, Mary Edmond-Paul, Otago University Press, Robin Hyde, Timothy G Jones, Winter 2009
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 86 | Winter 2009
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…
Driven by secrets, Frances Edmond
When Sun and Moon Collide Briar Grace-Smith Huia, $21.88, ISBN 9781869693169 Sons Victor Rodger Huia, $21.88, ISBN 9781869693039 Why publish a play? Well, a book is a nice thing to hold, material and solid: a small package containing something intriguing,…
Tagged with: Briar Grace-Smith, Frances Edmond, Huia, Issue 86, Victor Rodger, Winter 2009
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Brave new worlds, Joan de Hamel
The Tomorrow Code Brian Falkner Walker Books, $19.99, ISBN 781921150340 Juno of Taris Fleur Beale Random House, $18.99, ISBN 781869419882 About Griffen’s Heart Tina Shaw Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 87746015 Chronicles of Stone: Scorched Bone Vincent Ford Scholastic New Zealand,…
Tagged with: Brian Falkner, Fleur Beale, Issue 86, Joan de Hamel, Longacre Press, Random House, Scholastic New Zealand, Tina Shaw, Vincent Ford, Walker Books, Winter 2009
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Bright fine gold, Peter Calder
Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes Stevan Eldred-Grigg Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869419257 In the closing pages of this comprehensive, even magisterial, historical survey, the author quotes the observation by Joan Stevens in The…
Tagged with: Issue 86, Peter Calder, Random House, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Winter 2009
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Debuts and returns, Linda Burgess
Enemy at the Gate Philippa Werry Scholastic New Zealand, $17.99 ISBN 9781869438135 Old Drumble Jack Lasenby HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 978169506742 Chicken Feathers Joy Cowley and David Elliot (illus) Puffin Books, $17.95, ISBN 9780143303909 Five (and a bit) Days in the…
Tagged with: David Elliot, HarperCollins, Issue 86, Jack Lasenby, Joy Cowley, Linda Burgess, Michelle Kelly, Philippa Werry, Puffin Books, Random Books, Rebecca Cundy, Scholastic New Zealand, Val Bird, Winter 2009
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Cannibalism and communion, Andrew Fieldsend
This Horrid Practice: The Myth and Reality of Traditional Maori Cannibalism Paul Moon Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143006718 Macaulay said that history was sometimes fiction, sometimes theory. But Paul Moon’s provocative and controversial book sets out to establish objective facts…
Tagged with: Andrew Fieldsend, Issue 86, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Winter 2009
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Between rocks and hard places, David Hill
The Real McKay Graham Bishop Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372223 The Amazing World of James Hector Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham (eds) Awa Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780958275071 The first time I went on a Geological Society field trip, we…
Tagged with: Awa Press, David Hill, Graham Bishop, Issue 86, Mary Varnham, Otago University Press, Simon Nathan, Winter 2009
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review