Plane people Do I need to tell you it was a good reading? It was a great reading. One hundred and twenty nearly, we’d hoped for eighty at the most! We hadn’t met since the Venice conference, how many years…
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Punching above its poetic weight, Michael Hulse
99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry Paula Green and Harry Ricketts Vintage, $44.99, ISBN 9781869791780 First, let me get off my chest a grouch about the physical presentation of this book. It’s thick, it’s heavy, and it won’t open…
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Tagged with: Harry Ricketts, Issue 94, Michael Hulse, Paula Green, Vintage, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Why read? Chris Else
The Torchlight List Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780958291699 The world is going to hell in a handcart in so many ways that if you are over 55, you’re inclined to throw up your hands in despair, hide…
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Tagged with: Awa Press, Chris Else, Issue 94, Jim Flynn, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Map of a vision, Liv Macassey
The Past Awaits: People, Film, Images Vincent Ward Craig Potton Publishing, $69.99, ISBN 9781877517310 The Past Awaits joins a number of recent pictorial books on aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand cinema, such as Ian Brodie’s A Journey Through New…
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Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Liv Macassey, Vincent Ward, Winter 2011
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Perusing the menu, Lois Daish
Dining Out: A History of the Restaurant in New Zealand Perrin Rowland Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404642 Picture this. A freshly made flat white and a sugary blueberry scone will soon be delivered to your table. The morning…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 94, Lois Daish, Perrin Rowland, Winter 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Not to be sneezed at, Melissa Laing
Fantastica: The World of Leo Bensemann Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 978869404710 It has been a prolific few years for New Zealand art history at Auckland University Press, with monographs on Bill Culbert, Marti Friedlander, Len Lye…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 94, Leo Bensemann, Melissa Laing, Peter Simpson, Winter 2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A cabinet of curiosities, Stella Ramage
A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy Gregory O’Brien Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404703 The exhibition staged in Wellington City Gallery to accompany the publication of this book contains a striking homage…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Graham Percy, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 94, Stella Ramage, Winter 2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Strange rhythms, Ruth Nichol
Hokitika Town Charlotte Randall Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 9780143565390 The Hut Builder Laurence Fearnley Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143205067 When I started Charlotte Randall’s Hokitika Town, I found it hard to get my head around the idiosyncratic patois…
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Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, Issue 94, Laurence Fearnley, Penguin Books, Ruth Nichol, Winter 2011
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review