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Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Genesis of a Māori writer, Tina Makereti
Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9781869797263 It is sometimes useful, in reading a review, to have some sense of the reviewer’s positioning in relation to the material. After all, the New Zealand literary community…
Tagged with: Issue 110, Tina Makereti, Vintage, Winter 2015, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Problems with facts, Jane Stafford
The Parihaka Woman Witi Ihimaera Vintage, $38.99, ISBN 9781869797294 New Zealand’s first novel, Taranaki: A Tale of the War, was written by a British (possibly Irish) army officer, Henry Butler Stoney, who served in the conflict. With a speed…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Issue 97, Jane Stafford, Vintage, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Half a good book, John McCrystal
The Trowenna Sea Witi Ihimaera Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202455 First, let’s deal with the distractions. Unless you were living under a rock in the latter part of 2009, you will be aware that Witi Ihimaera found himself in a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Issue 89, John McCrystal, Penguin Books, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Revisionist urges, Anna Rogers
The Rope of Man Witi Ihimaera Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790008947 It’s surely a disconcerting and disturbing notion: that a writer’s early books can be rewritten many years later to take account of changes in his life, or in the evolution…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 75, Reed, Spring 2006, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
If it’s claggy, it must be Wellington, Kim Griggs
Auckland: The city in literature ed Witi Ihimaera Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988362 Dunedin: The city in literature ed Christine Johnston Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988451 Christchurch: The city in literature ed Anna Rogers Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988427 Wellington:…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2004, Christine Johnston, Exisle Publishing, Issue 65, Kate Camp, Kim Griggs, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Lord of the wings, Roger Robinson
Sky Dancer Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018698 If Witi Ihimaera is a national treasure, he is an impishly unpredictable one. At an age when he could be securely serene, he persists with youthful glee in taking literary risks. With…
Tagged with: Issue 62, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Winter 2003, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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