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…
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Issue 102 Winter 2013
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…
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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…
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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 and Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature and 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…
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Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 102, John Horrocks, Peter Olds, Puriri Press, Sam Hunt, Steele Roberts, Tranzlit, Winter 2013
Posted in Literature, Poetry and Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry and 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…
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Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Simon Sweetman, Winter 2013
Posted in Music, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction and Review
Pity about the people
Vanished world, Dale Williams
Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of J G Keulemans Geoff Norman Te Papa Press, $150.00, ISBN 9781877385889 Kids in a sweet shop. Nineteenth-century naturalists given a brand new country to play in gobbled up the apparent endless…
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Tagged with: Dale Williams, Geoff Norman, Issue 102, J G Keulemans, Te Papa Press, Winter 2013
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction and Review
No eureka moment, Mark Derby
The Making of New Zealanders Ron Palenski Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407261 In these febrile times a passing mention of New Zealand in US media can provoke a front-page response from our own. So it’s instructive to discover that…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 102, Mark Derby, Ron Palenski, Winter 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction and Review