NZ Books - Spring

2       Letter
C K Stead: “Unusual Obsequies” (poem)

3       Janet Wilson: Fiona Kidman, This Mortal Boy: A Novel

5       Annabel Gooder: Grace Bridges, Lee Murray and Aaron Compton (eds), Te Kōrero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning

6       James Robins: Kate Duignan, The New Ships

8       Kate Duignan: Kirsty Gunn, Caroline’s Bikini

10     Hugh Roberts: John Newton, Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908-1945; Erin Mercer, Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature

12     Simon Hay: Helen Bones, The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World; Martin Edmond, The Expatriates

14     Angelina Sbroma: Eileen Merriman, Catch Me When You Fall; Mandy Hager, Ash Arising

16     Amy Brown: Ella West, Rainfall; Kelly Wilson, Showtym Adventures: Casper, the Spirited Arabian; Sophie Siers (Judith Trevelyan illus), Do You Want to Gallop with Me?; Sophie Siers (Katharine White illus), The Gift Horse

18     Aleksia Drain: Fleur Beale, Lyla

19     Fleur Beale: “Responsible writing” (comment)

20     Grahame Sydney: “Making Art in words and paint” (comment)

21     Damian Love: Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney photographer), View from the South

23     John Horrocks: Chris Tse, He’s so MASC; Therese Lloyd, The Facts; James Norcliffe, Dark Days at the Oxygen Café

25     Tom McLean: Robert McLean (ed), Dan Davin: A Field Officer’s Notebook: Selected Poems

26     Paul Morris: Peter Lineham, Sunday Best: How the Church Shaped New Zealand and New Zealand Shaped the Church; Geoffrey Troughton (ed), Saints and Stirrers: Christianity, Conflict and Peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814-1945

28     Bookshelf

30     Janet McLean: Elizabeth McLeay, In Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy

31     Stephen Levine: Alison Quentin-Baxter and Janet McLean, This Realm of New Zealand: The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

33     Liesl Nunns: “Headland: Literary frontiers” (comment)

34     Michael Donaldson: Rod Smith, Guinness Down Under: The Famous Brew and the Family Come to Australia and New Zealand

35     Gwynaeth McIntyre: Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds), Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society

36     Elspeth Sandys: Peter Wells, Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History

37     Justin Gregory: “Dancing with facts” (comment)

38     Adrian Kinnaird: Ant Sang and Michael Bennett, Helen and the Go-go Ninjas

39     Crossword

 

 

 

Louise O’Brien comment:

The Spring issue of New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa serves up a banquet of criticism, comment and well-wrought thoughts. Janet Wilson savours Fiona Kidman's new novel, Kate Duignan comes to Kirsty Gunn's party, John Horrocks raises a glass to recent poetry, and Michael Donaldson brings the Guinness.