Letters — Issue 100
It’s a polemic Your reviewer Louise O’Brien (NZB, Spring 2012) criticises me for not offering solutions “to the many problems which [The Passionless People Revisited] lays out so emphatically”. Oh...
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Congratulations The novelist, Alex Miller, who lives in Melbourne (the city where I mostly reside), said that “writing fiction is a dangerous occupation. It is an act of imagination that requires the...
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A radical thought Here’s a radical thought for Chris Else (NZB, Autumn 2013). Perhaps a book reviewer might endeavour to say a couple of pertinent things about the book under review. If that book...
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Tragedy not dystopia Eleanor Toland’s review of Phillip Mann’s The Disestablishment of Paradise (NZB, Winter 2013) is based on a set of misconceptions. Toland yearns for New Zealand settings, so she...
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Kia ora koutou Congratulations on the Maori name and the digital archive, which works very well and will be a wonderful resource. I will let researchers know. Ka mau te wehi i a koutou! Paul Diamond...
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Vote of thanks Writers get the kudos; editors very little. Jane Westaway deserves a huge vote of thanks from New Zealand writers for her years of stalwart service as co-editor of New Zealand Books. As...
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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...
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Audio-books Each quarter or so a CD bearing the latest edition of New Zealand Books arrives in my letterbox having been sent by the Blind Foundation. These CDs carry excerpts from current magazine...
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Mud on the tracks I want to say a few things about some connotations in the review of my third novel, Glam Rock Boyfriends (NZB Spring 2014). Nick Bollinger, your reviewer, is an expert re rock music,...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 111
Over-egging I realise that there is a subtle Japanese influence in the art and vision of Grahame Sydney, but I suggest that to claim, as does Megan Dunn in her review (NZB, Winter 2015), that he paints...
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Critical attention Good to see in your issue 112 (NZB Summer 2015) Vincent O’Sullivan’s obituary on W H Oliver who was married to my mother’s half-sister Dorothy. I remember discussing poetry with...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 104
Kia ora koutou Congratulations on the Maori name and the digital archive, which works very well and will be a wonderful resource. I will let researchers know. Ka mau te wehi i a koutou! Paul Diamond...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 105
Vote of thanks Writers get the kudos; editors very little. Jane Westaway deserves a huge vote of thanks from New Zealand writers for her years of stalwart service as co-editor of New Zealand Books. As...
View ArticleLetters — 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...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 107
Audio-books Each quarter or so a CD bearing the latest edition of New Zealand Books arrives in my letterbox having been sent by the Blind Foundation. These CDs carry excerpts from current magazine...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 109
Mud on the tracks I want to say a few things about some connotations in the review of my third novel, Glam Rock Boyfriends (NZB Spring 2014). Nick Bollinger, your reviewer, is an expert re rock music,...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 111
Over-egging I realise that there is a subtle Japanese influence in the art and vision of Grahame Sydney, but I suggest that to claim, as does Megan Dunn in her review (NZB, Winter 2015), that he paints...
View ArticleLetters — Issue 113
Critical attention Good to see in your issue 112 (NZB Summer 2015) Vincent O’Sullivan’s obituary on W H Oliver who was married to my mother’s half-sister Dorothy. I remember discussing poetry with...
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