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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)…
Stirring times, Edmund Bohan
Collision Joanna Orwin HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507787 Banquo’s Son T K Roxborogh Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202493 The historical novel worldwide has possibly never enjoyed such a golden age as at present, with such remarkably diverse writers of quality as…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Joanna Orwin, Penguin Books, T K Roxborogh, Winter 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Knocking the Nationalists, Hugh Roberts
The Invention of New Zealand: Art and National Identity 1930-1970 Francis Pound Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 1869404149 Francis Pound’s The Invention of New Zealand is an uneven and often quirky work but one with which anyone interested in the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Francis Pound, Hugh Roberts, Issue 90, Winter 2010
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Beneath what we see, Max Oettli
Marti Friedlander Leonard Bell Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404444 What makes Marti Friedlander’s work such compelling viewing? Her work, even she herself, has taken on an iconic presence in the comfortable confines of our islands. And the photographs she…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 90, Leonard Bell, Marti Friedlander, Max Oettli, Winter 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem — Leonard Lambert
Riders to the Shore Surf I never saw as merely what happens to ocean when it meets the shallows – waves to me were always more akin to living things, a kind of water-beast, the sea’s attempt at entity. Summer…
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