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Issue 90 | Winter 2010
Volume 20 | Number 1 | Issue 90 | Winter 2010 Letters Obituary: J C Sturm Martin Edmond: Gordon Brown, Towards a Promised Land: On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon Linley Boniface: “Frind of All Animals” (Imprints)…
Ephemera and treasure, Eirlys Hunter
The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith, music Craig Smith, illustrations Katz Cowley Scholastic, $24.99, ISBN 9781869439262 Old Hu-hu/Huhu Koroheke Kyle Mewburn, illustrations Rachel Driscoll Maori text Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira Scholastic, $18.99, ISBN 9781869435189 / 9781869438975 Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to…
Tagged with: Diana Neild, Eirlys Hunter, Gavin Bishop, Issue 90, Joy Cowley, Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira, Kyle Mewburn, Michael Hight, Paula Green, Philip Webb, Rachel Driscoll, Random House, Scholastic, Winter 2010
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Poem – Jan Fitzgerald
Gannets Supersonic heads brushed with sea pollen, they ride the thermals up to height, tease out the sky hover take aim dive A stratospheric entry plume of spray! Shake the head, slip the fish, flap twice, instant take-off again. Beaks…
Girls under fire, Tatjana Schaefer
Copper Top Coral Atkinson Dancing Tuatara, $20.00, ISBN 9781877192388 Real Life Ella West Longacre Press, $19.99, ISBN 9781877460395 Brother Sister Soldier Cousin Phyllis Johnston Longacre Press, $17.99, ISBN 9781877460319 Three novels about teenage girls disconnected from their families and trying…
Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Dancing Tuatara, Ella West, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Phyllis Johnston, Tatjana Schaefer, Winter 2010
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Frind of all animals, Linley Boniface
Linley Boniface recalls what Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals meant to her growing up in the “anti-Corfu” of 1970s Palmerston North. The territorial skirmishes of marriage manifest themselves, at my house, in bookcases. We have always had too many…
Going the distance, Roger Robinson
Conquerors of Time Lynn McConnell SportsBooks, UK£10.00, ISBN 9781899807888 January 5 was the centenary of the birth of Jack Lovelock. A cake was cut at Timaru Boys’ High School, and a plaque was unveiled at his unlikely birthplace, the literally-named…
Tagged with: Issue 90, Lynn McConnell, Roger Robinson, SportsBooks, Winter 2010
Posted in Review, Sport
Posted in Review, Sport
One whole thing, Martin Edmond
Towards a Promised Land: On the Life and Art of Colin McCahon Gordon Brown Auckland University Press, $79.99, ISBN 9781869404529 As I began to read the 16 essays, plus introduction, that make up Gordon Brown’s Towards a Promised Land, I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Colin McCahon, Gordon Brown, Issue 90, Martin Edmond, Winter 2010
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Building on bones, Eric Medcalf
No Other Home Than This John Andrews Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517082 John Andrews must be a very curious man. This is a book that reflects a life of curiosity, of love for his profession, his humanity and his…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Eric Medcalf, Issue 90, John Andrews, Winter 2010
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — J C Sturm
J C Sturm (1927-2009) In 1927 a daughter was born at Opunake in Taranaki to a young Maori couple named Mary and Jack Papuni. They named their baby Te Kare, but the little girl would never know her mother, who…
Virtually naive, Hamish Clayton
Dick Frizzell: The Painter Dick Frizzell Godwit, $75.00; ISBN 9781869621742 It’s funny how an established artist’s moment can seem to arrive suddenly second time around with an exceptionally appealing – almost unbelievable – narrative logic. After the remarkable debut and…
Tagged with: Dick Frizzell, Godwit, Hamish Clayton, Issue 90, Winter 2010
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review