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The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

A Space to Operate If You Were a Woman Artist

1 October 2024 Leave a Comment

Helen Watson White on Folded in the hills by Marilynn Webb

Filed Under: art and photography, maori and pacific

Your Position Is Not Mine

1 September 2024 Leave a Comment

Ian Wedde on Dear Colin, Dear Ron: The selected letters of Colin McCahon and Ron O’Reilly by Peter Simpson

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history, letters

You Saw Nothing

1 July 2024 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon

Filed Under: art and photography, biography, history

Towards Night Moorings

3 April 2024 Leave a Comment

Pat White on Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson, Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring, and A Long Road Trip Home by John Allison

Filed Under: art and photography, poetry, queer writing

Loud with Locusts and Bronzed with Sun

1 March 2024 1 Comment

David Eggleton on Don Binney: Flight path by Greg O’Brien

Filed Under: art and photography, biography

He Put His Chisel Right Through It

1 December 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri; Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, maori and pacific

Women Active at Every Level of Photography

1 July 2023 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Though Shaded Glass: Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960 by Lissa Mitchell

Filed Under: art and photography, history

The Person is Fashioned and the Poem is Shaped until Poem and Person are One

1 April 2023 Leave a Comment

Piet Nieuwland on Albatross Neck: Landings by the Ancient Mariner and Romanticism in Aotearoa New Zealand 1770–2022 by Nigel Brown and Denys Trussell; The Wanderer: Book Two by Ron Riddell; Songs to the Unsung by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst 

Filed Under: art and photography, fiction, poetry, short stories

Matrix of Shape-Shifting

1 February 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori art edited by Nigel Borell

Filed Under: art and photography, maori and pacific

‘Disobedience and Bravery’: The Power of Female Image-Making

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Gaylene’s Take: Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston; droplet by Sheryl Campbell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

A Principled Resistance

1 October 2022 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy on The Other Way by David Trubridge

Filed Under: art and photography, essays

Stone House & Straw Houses  

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell (Canterbury University Press, 2022) and Road People of Aotearoa: House truck journeys 1978–1984 by Paul Gilbert (Rim Books, 2021)

Filed Under: architecture, art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history

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