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Issue 106 | Winter 2014
Volume 24 | Number 2 | Issue 106 | Winter 2014 Letters Jane Westaway: Rebecca Macfie, Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died Linda Burgess: Tania Atkinson (Viv Walker illus), Over the Hill to Greytown;…
Scots collective and singular, Kirstine Moffat
Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon Otago University Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780773541900 I have always enjoyed the inventiveness of collective nouns, favourites being an exaltation of larks and a worship of…
Tagged with: Brad Patterson, Issue 106, Jim McAloon, Kirstine Moffat, Otago University Press, Tom Brooking, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Rhyming pleasures, Linda Burgess
Over the Hill to Greytown Tania Atkinson (Viv Walker illus) Wai Art Press, $20.00, ISBN 9780473252526 Bruiser and the Big Snow Gavin Bishop Random House, $21.00, ISBN 9781775534860 Toucan Can Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877467547…
Tagged with: Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Juliette MacIver, Linda Burgess, Random House, Sarah Davis, Tania Atkinson, Viv Walker, Wai Art Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Phrases that catch the breath, Mark Houlahan
Heartland Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9781869408084 In 2007, Leggott was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate; in England, there is a long tradition of poets laureate being crowned at the point in their careers where the muse has…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 106, Mark Houlahan, Michele Leggott, Winter 2014
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Personal freight, Elizabeth Crayford
Wild Like Me Elizabeth Nannestad Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738813 One Human in Height Rachel O’Neill Hue and Cry Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473257569 Other Animals Therese Lloyd Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864738820 Dark Sparring Selina Tusitala Marsh Auckland…
Moral force, John Campbell
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk David Grant Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775535799 I was 10 when Norman Kirk died. It was the first death I had ever registered. When the news came through, my parents…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 106, John Campbell, Norman Kirk, Random House, Winter 2014
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Letters – Issue 106
A necessary corrective Reading Dougal McNeill’s review of Brasch’s Journals 1938-1945 has surprised me by its reminder that so much of value is, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. I feel the essential Brasch has been missed. The…
Writing on the high wire, Sue McCauley
The Score Adrienne Jansen Escalator Press, $28.00, ISBN 978047325328 The Virgin & the Whale Carl Nixon Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775533757 I’m Working on a Building Pip Adam Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738981 When more than one book is featured…
Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, Carl Nixon, Escalator Press, Issue 106, Pip Adam, Sue McCauley, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The stories told by spaces, Zachary Athfield
New Zealand’s Lost Heritage: The Stories Behind our Forgotten Landmarks Richard Wolfe New Holland, $50.00, ISBN 9781869663872 New Zealand’s Lost Heritage: The Stories Behind our Forgotten Landmarks discusses 20 formerly intact New Zealand buildings, dating from the early 1800s to…
Tagged with: Issue 106, New Holland, Richard Wolfe, Winter 2014, Zachary Athfield
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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