Blog Archives
Cataloguing the past, Hilary Stace
Te Rau Herenga: A Century of Library Life in New Zealand: The New Zealand Library Association and LIANZA 1910-2010 Julia Millen Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, $40.00, ISBN 9780473175795 Librarians have long endured negative stereotypes, but…
Tagged with: Hilary Stace, Issue 94, Julia Millen, LIANZA, Winter 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A certain political autism, Simon Upton
Palmer: The Parliamentary Years Raymond Richards Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877257926 For Geoffrey Palmer, politics was a serious business. It was about legislating for a better society and demanded the serious-minded attention of elected politicians. This sense of…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 94, Raymond Richards, Simon Upton, Winter 2011
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Issue 94 | Winter 2011
Volume 21 | Number 2 | Issue 94 | Winter 2011 Obituary: Judith Binney Janet Hunt: Alison Ballance, Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction; Neville Peat, The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean Hugh Roberts: Janet Wilson (ed), Frank…
Obituary — Judith Binney
Judith Binney (1940-2011) Judith Binney dedicated her books to those from whom she herself had learnt: in 1995, Sir Monita Delamere and Sir Keith Sinclair; in 2009, Tuhoe’s great 19th-century leaders, “who chose to walk the long paths to peace”,…
Feathers and fins, Janet Hunt
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction Alison Ballance Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517273 The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean Neville Peat Penguin Books, $62.00, ISBN 9780143011385 Time was when “non-fiction” meant staid, largely black-and-white books on a…
Tagged with: Alison Ballance, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Janet Hunt, Neville Peat, Penguin Books, Winter 2011
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Something nobody counted on, Murray Bramwell
Travesty Mike Johnson (graphic art, Darren Sheehan) Titus Books, $39.00, ISBN 9781877441134 Fosterling Emma Neale Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869794859 Wulf Hamish Clayton Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143206491 Like many futuristic nightmares, the naming of the nihilistic Gaia…
Tagged with: Darren Sheehan, Emma Neale, Hamish Clayton, Issue 94, Mike Johnson, Murray Bramwell, Penguin Books, Titus Books, Vintage, Winter 2011
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Woven among the lines, Elizabeth Caffin
Mike Doyle: Collected Poems, 1951–2009 Ekstasis Editions, $55.95, ISBN 9781897430637 When I moved to Auckland in 1985, I found the literary world was haunted by ghosts. There was Rex Fairburn and Maurice Duggan and Frank Sargeson and Mike Joseph…
Tagged with: Ekstasis Editions, Elizabeth Caffin, Issue 94, Mike Doyle, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Peter Bland
Naked Ladies Pink petal sexily exposed (no leaves to shelter them From the sun) they burst Through graves in abandoned churches Or hug the fence lines of deserted homesteads. You sometimes find them ‒ edgily erotic ‒ In the dark…
Letters – Issue 94
Talking heads How refreshing that for Nelson Wattie (NZB Autumn 2011) the time has clearly come to no longer “go with the flow” – in this case, the incessant flow of information from writers talking about (their) writing and thereby…