Henry Lawson in New Zealand Charles Ferrall (ed) Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877577390 Who could be more Australian than Henry Lawson? He was born on a New South Wales goldfield, wandered and worked in the outback, and wrote stories…
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To-ing and fro-ing, John O’Leary
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Henry Lawson, Issue 98, John O’Leary, Steele Roberts, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Literature, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Review
Brave new world of publishing, John McCrystal
The Spanish Helmet Greg Scowen Whare Rama Books, $32.99, ISBN 9781463558482 Coast David Carnegie Young Vanguard Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781843866855 No Second Chance Mark Stephenson Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877577345 Zhu Mao Mark Sweet Huia, $30.00, ISBN…
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Tagged with: David Carnegie Young, Greg Scowen, Huia, Issue 98, John McCrystal, Mark Stephenson, Mark Sweet, Steele Roberts, Vanguard Press, Whare Rama Books, Winter 2012
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Into the light, Paul Thompson
Early New Zealand Photography, Images and Essays Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf (eds) Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781877578168 I must admit that I don’t usually go around thinking of photographs as “culturally conditioned visual communications systems” but, on…
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Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Erika Wolf, Issue 98, Otago University Press, Paul Thompson, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Closing the spaces between, Filma Anne Punakitere Phillips
Words Between Us/ He Korero: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper Alison Jones and Kuni Jenkins Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781869694784 Aotearoa/New Zealand as a place of encounter, a zone of contact and kanohi ki te kanohi. Face-to-face meetings during the…
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Tagged with: Alison Jones, Filma Anne Phillips, Filma Anne Punakitere Phillips, Issue 98, Kuni Jenkins, Winter 2012
Posted in Essays, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The peculiar business, Laurie Atkinson
Katydid Lucy O’Brien Playmarket, $22.50, ISBN 9780908607419 No 8 Wire: Eight Plays, Eight Decades Playmarket, $30.00, ISBN 9780908607426 Plays 2: London Calling: Blue Sky Boys/John, I’m Only Dancing/Waterloo Sunset Ken Duncum Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736840 …
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Tagged with: Harry Love, Issue 98, Ken Duncum, Laurie Atkinson, Lucy O’Brien, Playmarket, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Plays
Posted in Literature, Plays
Ongoing investigations, Bernard Carpinter
Death on Demand Paul Thomas Hodder Moa, $36.99, ISBN 9781869712334 Traces of Red Paddy Richardson Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143565765 Bound Vanda Symon Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143565277 Ihaka is back – and about time, too. It’s around 15…
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Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Hodder Moa, Issue 98, Paddy Richardson, Paul Thomas, Penguin, Vanda Symon, Winter 2012
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Draft 17 anyone? David Eggleton
Dunedin Soundings: Place and Performance Dan Bendrups and Graeme Downes (eds) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978 877578229 With the possible exception of Chris Knox, the “Dunedin Sound” was never driven by charismatic personalities. Instead, it consisted of a…
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Tagged with: Dan Bendrups, David Eggleton, Graeme Downes, Issue 98, Otago University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
The love we live by, Pinky Agnew
Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Poems Paula Green (ed) Godwit, $36.99, ISBN 9781869797621 Appropriately for a book of love poems, Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Poems is lovely to look at and to hold. Equally appropriately, closer acquaintance reveals…
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Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 98, Paula Green, Pinky Agnew, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Truth eating, Harry Ricketts
Inside Outside Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736536 Coming Ashore Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 9781877577499 Fly Boy Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 97818544125 “I seek to honour/the truculent/genesis of living,” states…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Harry Ricketts, Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Peter Bland, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review