I SAW YOU… is an altogether different book from Stopover (reviewed above). While Stopover is intimate I Saw You… depending on your point of view either borders on the intrusive or crashes straight through the dividing line. Read more »
In the history of photo-journalism, John G Morris has been involved in almost as many classic images as Kodak. Although his contribution has been outside the viewfinder, many of the pictures that have spoken loudest have had Morris’s thumbprint on the contact sheet. Read more »
Established and mid-career New Zealand creative writers are invited to apply for the New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize 2009. The New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize, previously known as The Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, is one of New Zealand’s …
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The timing of poet Hone Tuwhare’s death – with the daily avalanche of Sir Ed obituaries and tributes at their height – meant the papers here paid less attention to his passing than he deserved. Britain’s Guardian has helped set the record straight with this lovely tribute by fellow poet Alastair Te Ariki Campbell. Read more »
More than 100 years of Indian women making a home and career in New Zealand is the subject of a new book. ‘Sari: Indian women at work in New Zealand’, being launched today by Dunmore Publishing, is a labour of love by AUT Associate Professor of Management Dr Edwina Pio.
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The two overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize will be announced on Sunday, 18 May 2008. Prizes of �10K will be awarded to the author of Overall Best Book, and Pounds 5K to the author of Overall Best First Book.
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What does language tell us about ourselves? When we swear, or reach for a jaded metaphor (‘time is money’), make a simple request (‘Would you mind passing the salt?’), or simply choose a transitive verb over an intransitive one, are we revealing more of ourselves than we realise? Read more »
Multi-award winner of the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) Review Award, David Eggleton will be a judge of the same award this year.
He is joined by academic writer and retired publisher, Elizabeth Caffin in the task of selecting winners for the awards which have two categories: BPANZ Reviewer of the Year and the BPANZ Review Page or Programme of the Year. Read more »
The first biography of artist, Rita Angus by Jill Trevelyan was published this month thanks to a $35,000 Award from Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL).
And applications are now open for other writer’s to benefit from this award for non-fiction works. Applicants have until 16 July to submit proposals to the 2008 CLL Writers’ Award; there will be two prizes of $35,000 awarded this year. Read more »
Paddy Costello’s Russian-Jewish wife Bella, we are told, ‘had in her beauty and sadness the sadness of small Jewish towns hemmed in by curses’.
The precision, power and originality of this description, from James McNeish’s recent biography of Costello, are representative of the book. Read more »
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