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Still flying, Harry Ricketts
Glass Wings Fleur Adcock Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864738875 Glass Wings is Fleur Adcock’s 13th collection. For close on 50 years, her poems have been praised for their sharp wit, classical clarity and conversational ease. Those qualities are again…
Tagged with: Fleur Adcock, Harry Ricketts, Issue 102, Victoria University Press, Winter 2013
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Letters – Issue 102
A radical thought Here’s a radical thought for Chris Else (NZB, Autumn 2013). Perhaps a book reviewer might endeavour to say a couple of pertinent things about the book under review. If that book happens to be a major new…
Sourcing the golden goose, Hugh Roberts
Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work Gordon H Brown Art History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00, ISBN 9780475122032 Toss Woollaston: Origins and Influence Tony Green Art History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00, ISBN 9771176304001 Colin McCahon…
Tagged with: Art History Programme, Colin McCahon, Gordon H Brown, Hugh Roberts, Issue 102, Rex Butler, Roger Blackley, Tony Green, Toss Woollaston, Victoria University of Wellington, Winter 2013
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Essays, Non-fiction, Review
A bit of fluff, Anne Else
A Woman’s Place Redmer Yska Penguin Books, $20.00, ISBN 97840143568087 A Woman’s Place is a small book in every sense. Penguin’s web page classes it as both “humour” and “gift book”. Though it does have pages and a cover, it…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Redmer Yska, Winter 2013
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Slow, sure meaning, Hamish Clayton
Hamish Clayton reflects on The English Patient. “The first time she dreamed of him she woke up beside her husband screaming.” When I was 21, I wrote that line out dozens of times, by hand, into a battered school exercise…
Issue 102 | Winter 2013
Volume 23 | Number 2 | Issue 102 | Winter 2013 Letters David Hill: R L Stedman, A Necklace of Souls; David Hair, Ghosts of Parihaka; Anna MacKenzie, Cattra’s Legacy; Des Hunt, Phantom of Terawhiti Damien Wilkins: “Always something to…
Sleeping with a panda, Mary Roberts
New Zealand’s China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success Chris Elder (ed) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738470 In 1972 New Zealand recognised China: how quaint this now sounds. The echoes of those far-off…
Tagged with: Chris Elder, Issue 102, Mary Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2013
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
Hooves of unicorns clattering, Eleanor Toland
The Disestablishment of Paradise Phillip Mann Victor Gollancz, $37.00, ISBN 9780575132627 The Last Sanctuary P S Mokha Tangerine Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9780987664655 Tropic of Skorpeo Michael Morrissey Steam Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780987663535 Fantasy and science fiction are genres often underrepresented…
Tagged with: Eleanor Toland, Issue 102, Michael Morrissey, P S Mokha, Phillip Mann, Steam Press, Tangerine Publications, Victor Gollancz, Winter 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Remembering, John Horrocks
Under the Dundas Street Bridge Peter Olds Steele Roberts, $20.00, ISBN 9781877577833 Chords and Other Poems Sam Hunt Craig Potton Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9781877338181 Voicetracks: Poems 2002-2012 Jan Kemp Puriri Press/Tranzlit, $32.50, ISBN 9780908943388 Like Paul McCartney singing “Remember” at…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 102, John Horrocks, Peter Olds, Puriri Press, Sam Hunt, Steele Roberts, Tranzlit, Winter 2013
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Pressing on, David Eggleton
On Song: Stories behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics Simon Sweetman Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143568162 Any anthology is a work of exclusion, constructed to emphasise or establish a particular narrative. In the case of anthologist Simon Sweetman’s On Song: Stories…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Simon Sweetman, Winter 2013
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review