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“Misleading expectations” Barbara Else’s review (NZB, Spring 2016) of Mary-anne Scott’s young adult novel Coming Home to Roost contains several errors of fact. Else writes, “The blurb states that the...
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It was good to see Roger Robinson’s warm review of my father’s book, The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, in the last issue of New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa (Winter 2017). However,...
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Concerning points We thank New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa and Airini Beautrais for the largely positive review of Manifesto Aotearoa 101 Political Poems (NZB Summer 2017), but its final points are...
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Throw off the founders’ shackles As regards your editorial about “our present reviewing wasteland” (NZB, Spring 2017): perhaps the time is ripe for New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa to take some...
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Aching absences Dear Editors I do hope readers of Vincent O Sullivan’s expansive and generously minded All This By Chance have a more nuanced appreciation of the novel’s pleasures than Ann Beaglehole’s...
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Ignoring the book I would like to respond to some of the criticisms of A Field Officer’s Notebook (AFON) made by Tom McLean in his review “Shivers of emotion” (NZB Spring 2018). See more ›
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...
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“Misleading expectations” Barbara Else’s review (NZB, Spring 2016) of Mary-anne Scott’s young adult novel Coming Home to Roost contains several errors of fact. Else writes, “The blurb states that the...
View ArticleLetters – Issue 119
It was good to see Roger Robinson’s warm review of my father’s book, The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, in the last issue of New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa (Winter 2017). However,...
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Throw off the founders’ shackles As regards your editorial about “our present reviewing wasteland” (NZB, Spring 2017): perhaps the time is ripe for New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa to take some...
View ArticleLetters Issue 121
Concerning points We thank New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa and Airini Beautrais for the largely positive review of Manifesto Aotearoa 101 Political Poems (NZB Summer 2017), but its final points are...
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Aching absences Dear Editors I do hope readers of Vincent O Sullivan’s expansive and generously minded All This By Chance have a more nuanced appreciation of the novel’s pleasures than Ann Beaglehole’s...
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Ignoring the book I would like to respond to some of the criticisms of A Field Officer’s Notebook (AFON) made by Tom McLean in his review “Shivers of emotion” (NZB Spring 2018). See more ›
View ArticleLetters – Issue 125
Bouquet On behalf of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ), may I extend our appreciation to you and your team for your excellent books review coverage in New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa...
View ArticleLetters – Issue 126
Deletions made by Brasch himself I was distressed to see in Douglas Lloyd Jenkins’s review in the latest New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa (Autumn 2019) the wrongful and offensive...
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Downsizing We hear about the problems of empty nesters, but seldom the difficulties of the bibliophile facing the downsizing of their book collections and the heartache that can ensue. Jane Westaway’s...
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Costello errors Despite its brevity, Ken Ross’s article on Dan Davin’s memoir of Paddy Costello (NZRB Spring 2019) contains a quite remarkable number of factual errors. By my count, there are 18 –...
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