Dr O’Leary’s PhD thesis on three decades
of discrimination against women writers preaches what he practised and
reintroduces writers worthy of attention.
Few women writers are prominent in the period 1945 to the late 1960s,
deliberately under-represented and trivialised by male writers and publishers.
Dr O’Leary, poet, painter and publisher of works by men and women, uncovers
this era dominated by openly hostile misogyny which only ended when women
‘started doing it for themselves’. In the process he reminds us of neglected
reputations, including that of the cover artist Anne McCahon.
David McGill recreates the pioneering 1840s when Maori and Pakeha
cultivated the Hutt Valley until the lust for land culminated in bloodshed at
the Battle of Boulcott Farm.
Michael O’Leary reinterprets a controversial image of the Battle of
Boulcott Farm for the cover of David McGill’s novel of the events leading to
this conflict and its aftermath. A young Scot and a Maori lad are caught up in
the hopes, dreams and stratagems for control of this Promised Land by Governor
Grey and Te Rauparaha, explorer Charles Heaphy, botanist William Swainson
and his daughter Mary, the adventurous Midshipman McKillop and the dispossessed
Rangatahi.
Publisher David McGill 24 Aperahama St Paekakariki 5034
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