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Cover: The lighthouse at Taiaroa Head, home of the cliff-top albatross colony on Otago Peninsula. See The Face of Nature: An environmental history of the Otago Peninsula by Jonathan West. Photograph by Ian Thomson

2 I NEW BOOKS A STRANGE BEAUTIFUL EXCITEMENT REDMER YSKA Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888–1903

How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ‘ravishing, immersing read’, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a ‘wild ride’ through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield’s childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield’s old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer. Along the way his encounters and dogged research – into her Beauchamp ancestry, the social landscape, the festering, deadly surroundings – lead him (and us) to reevaluate long- held conclusions about the writer’s shaping years. They also lead to a thrilling discovery – a short story previously unknown to Mansfield scholars, written when Mansfield was aged 11. The story is printed in full herein. This haunting and beautifully vivid book combines fact and fiction, biography and memoir, as Yska rediscovers Mansfield’s Wellington, unearthing her childhood as he goes, shining a new lamp on old territory.

It’s not enough to say I immensely enjoyed A Strange Beautiful Excitement … it’s simply splendid. – DAME FIONA KIDMAN … the best account I have ever read of Wellington and Karori as they were in In print Mansfield’s day … Vivid and vigorous, it is a pleasure to read.– KATHLEEN JONES, hardback, full colour KM BIOGRAPHER 198 x 150mm, 272pp ISBN 978-0-947522-54-4, $39.95 REDMER YSKA is a Wellington-born writer and historian. He has published books about postwar teenagers (‘bodgies and widgies’), Dutch New Zealanders like himself, and a commissioned history of Wellington City. He was awarded the National Library Research Fellowship to write a history of NZ Truth, published in 2010. Yska was the major recipient of a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Award in 2014, allowing him to write this book.

NEW BOOKS I 3 PRISCILLA PITTS & UNDREAMED OF … ANDREA HOTERE 50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

In 1966 Michael Illingworth, whose oil painting Adam and Eve appears on the front cover of this book, was awarded the inaugural Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. For the first time in New Zealand a practising artist was given a studio and paid a salary to make art for a whole year. Such support, as Frances Hodgkins herself wrote from her own experience, was capable of ‘yielding up riches – undreamed of’. Fifty years later, the fellowship is still going strong. This sumptuous book brings together the art and the stories of half a century of Frances Hodgkins fellows. Arts commentator Priscilla Pitts writes about their work, while journalist Andrea Hotere interviews the artists about their lives and sources of inspiration. The result is a vibrant celebration of the talent fostered through New Zealand’s foremost visual arts residency.

PRISCILLA PITTS has had a long career writing about the visual arts, with a particular focus on contemporary New Zealand art. She is the author of Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture: Themes and issues and a founding editor of Antic, a journal of arts, literature, theory and criticism. She was formerly director of Artspace (Auckland), the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth) and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Toitū Otago Settlers Museum. More recently she was General Manager Heritage Destinations at Heritage New Zealand, and these days freelances as a writer, exhibition curator and museum consultant. September 2017 hardback, full colour 280 x 220mm, 232pp ANDREA HOTERE has a background in historical research and investigative journalism. ISBN 978-0-947522-56-8, $59.95 She began her career at the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, before working at the BBC in London, and in New Zealand on various publications including the Sunday Star-Times and Published with the assistance of New Zealand Education Review. She has also written for magazines, researched and produced Creative New Zealand award-winning television documentaries and edited a book on architecture.

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Angels would not fear to tread at Séraphine Pick’s place. Pick was born in Kawakawa, Northland, in 1964, a for a term: ‘She was a breath of fresh air, century after her namesake, French so bright and bubbly and enthusiastic. artist Séraphine de Senlis, and grew up To see a woman artist was encouraging. interested in the imagination and how you steeped in artistic promise. Her parents There weren’t many role models for can make up and manipulate an image in both attended art school, but left after females … except looking back, to Rita front of you by being intuitive.’ her mother became pregnant. They lived Angus and Frances Hodgkins, Flora She had grown up looking at on Moturua Island as caretakers till she Scales, Olivia Spencer Bower …’ surrealism, with her father showing her was five. ‘It was beautiful … I remember Pick did a diploma of teaching at images by Hieronymus Bosch. ‘“This was it really well.’ The family relocated to Christchurch College of Education in 1991, the first surrealist,” he would say. ‘Dunedin Russell, where her brother was born. Pick then taught art at Rangiora High School. felt very surreal; everything was new and says her parents were ‘self-sufficient and In 1994 she received the Olivia Spencer strange. My father loved the grotesque environmental’ and their home was ‘very Bower Award, and in 1995 the Rita Angus side of art; the idea of the abject, life and political … They knew a lot of artists and Cottage residency. ‘That’s why I’ve moved death. Artists like Goya. I’m realising now

intellectuals.’1 around the country – to find a way to that he was dropping little seeds into my In 1970–72 the family moved briefly to make art. It’s like a job, getting those brain; it’s coming back as I get older. My Australia. At the National Gallery of Victoria residencies.’ aesthetic leans towards imagery that has a responds to the very contemporary concept of the virtual crowd and changing concepts in Melbourne, Pick saw a grand master’s Winning the Frances Hodgkins sense of unease about it.’ of privacy. Based on images from the internet, these works reveal a parade of youthful work for the first time: Van Gogh’s boots. Fellowship in 1999 heralded ‘a rich period Pick has a son, Joseph, born in foolhardiness, pranking, at times unforeseen tragedy. Though the bruised, near-naked girl ‘I remember it all being spot-lit theatrically, of development’ and also marked the Dunedin in 2001, the year she bought her all very dramatic, in a dark room, but it was point from which Pick was able to make (Purple Water, first house as a solo mother. Since 2006 just a pair of shoes.’ She reflects: ‘People art full time. ‘The Dunedin landscape was she has lived and worked in Wellington. its head in the gutter2013), maythe comatose be insensible gaffer-tape-bound to their own plight, male the (Tape original, images have been don’t realise how difficult that confident the big thing. It was so beautiful. There’s ‘To construct artworks is quite hard. shared with who knows how many million others, physically as isolated from one another mark-making is. There’s much more to an emotional thing that happens with the It’s a decision-making process and the 2013), or the figure with as the characters in Pick’s earlier works – but here sharing common experiences. The thin, it than what you see. I loved that idea of cycle of the season down there; it just possibilities are endless. You have to have almost watery brushwork of these paintings is a reflection perhaps of the fluid nature of the going up to a canvas and making a mark.’ fed into the work. I was starting to look “walk-away confidence”.’ [ internet, but also a way of unfixing our response to the image. Returning to New Zealand, Pick back into those older European artists … Ah] Then there are her large, often disturbing crowd scenes, such as attended Bay of Islands College (1978) there were lots of things that came out of Everything is Beautiful (2015), where violence seems only a moment away. Superstar where she studied under Selwyn Wilson. that.’ She also started looking seriously like its evil twin Hole in the Sky During her school years her home was at New Zealand artists, including Frances frequently full as her parents supported Hodgkins. ‘I loved her water colours and in a painterly device that also exercises an emotional pull. Hits of pink drawSevens our eye (2013) here and and (2009), is a night scene in which a single figure is highlighted a number of foster children. ‘Their gouaches and I’m very influenced by there into the throng, but we always come back to that central figure, arms in the air in some (2015), backgrounds were all very different. I learnt those.’ Superstar 2015 kind of ecstasy, participating in a shared moment, yet inevitably and forever solitary. a lot from them about how lucky I was in Oil on linen, 1615 x 2000 mm Pick lived in Port Chalmers, where her Collection Victoria University of Wellington. my world.’ Her parents separated when mother’s predecessors had once made Purchased 2016. she was in her last year of school. landfall. She had recently begun a new 1. Unless stated otherwise, all quotes from conversation with author, 19 May 2016. relationship and became connected to the 2. Séraphine Pick in ‘Fragmented worlds: An interview with Séraphine Pick’, [PP] After a brief flirtation with the fashion Waiwhetu, 2009, 35–39 [37]. industry, which saw her working in a dry local music scene. ‘I really prefer listening cleaners in Auckland, in 1984 Pick enrolled to live music. I’m deaf in one ear.’ She Séraphine Pick, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o at the University of Canterbury School of experiences tinnitus, which disappears 160 Fine Arts, graduating three years later with when she paints. 1967 a BFA. Her contemporaries included Peter ‘I enjoyed the experimentation with Robinson, Mark Braunius, Shane Cotton music and I think that fed into my work and Tony de Latour. Philippa Blair taught – how you can work subconsciously and use your imagination. It’s like composing on the go. I think painting is like that. I’m 1. All quotes from interview with author, 22 February 2016 and subsequent correspondence.

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opposite Aphrodite 1967 There are imbeciles who call my work abstract; that which they call abstract is the most Carrara marble, 755 x 260 x 220 mm Collection of the artist realist because what is real is not the exterior form, but the idea, the essence of things. Photo: Cameron Drawbridge These words by Constantin Brâncuşi, whom Tanya Ashken cites as her primary left artistic influence, could be said to sum up Ashken’s approach to abstraction. Brâncuşi’s Poseidon 2007 fluidity of form, his primitivist impulses and the references to living beings have also Green patinated bronze, 430 x 400 x 230 mm Collection of the artist informed much of Ashken’s sculpture. Photo: Cameron Drawbridge For 50 years Tanya Ashken has lived at the edge of Cook Strait, looking out right above each day on its waters and the seabirds that circle and glide. The influence of this SeaBird, Island Bay 1998 Australian blackwood, 170 x 405 x 370 mm place is also evident in Ashken’s work – as a sculptor, silversmith and jeweller. Her Private collection, Wellington bronze Poseidon (2011) acknowledges the ancient god of the sea with upward curving Photo: Cameron Drawbridge forms, their green patina mottled with evanescent circular outlines, like jellyfish or the right below transparent creatures of the deepest oceans. Rising Wave (1966) also responds to the Whale Form 1988 Bronze, 325 x 260 x 190 mm sea’s action, while Soaring Fish (1966), Whale Form (1988) and Whale Form II (1994) Collection of the artist offer glimpses of the creatures that dwell in it. Even some of the semi-precious stones Photo: Cameron Drawbridge Ashken uses in her silversmithing – aquamarine, pounamu, moonstone, malachite,Albatross lapis lazuli – evoke water in its many moods. 43 But it is the seabird that has most often caused Ashken’s imagination to take flight, in works that range from small-scale silver sculptures to the monumental Of his religious background Smither wrote: ‘I was always looking for miracles, that’s what I was after. But I never found any, to be honest. I think that’s what influenced me to accept the ordinary. I was not looking for miracles elsewhere.’ transform the mundanity of domestic life into images full of wonder. The fun of blowing 5 out matches, Sarah bouncing on the bed, the temptations of the forbidden This light led switch, him to the hot tap, the contents of a potty, Thomas marvelling at how pulling a cord makes the world light and dark – all these are portrayed, occasionally with vexation, more A series of paintings Michael Smither made in 1970 brings together two of his major often with humour, vitality and love. What could be more intimate and tender than preoccupations in a homage to one of New Zealand’s foremost regionalist artists. the depiction of the two sleepy Children at Breakfast Time (1969–70), one sucking a These cruciform paintings, all titled Memoriam to Rita Angus, blanket, the other her fingers, both waiting for their bowls to be filled? 42 Otago landscape, to the work of Angus herself, and resonate with Smither’s Catholic 1 respond to the Central Smither’s fascination with the aliveness of inanimate everyday objects is evident upbringing. The angles of the cross cut sharply into the brown, folded hills and snaking in the writhing surfaces of his river in a way that’s unexpectedly moving, almost painful. When Angus died, Smither and the disconcertingly wriggly Yellowand beady-eyed Rubber Gloves (1977) or Spent Balloon (1979), had been experimenting with long horizontal panels; he describes adding the vertical in baskets or on a windowsill, cups are clusteredSquid and stacked, on a Plate empty (1988). eggshells Fruit glows in a panel of the cross as ‘like a nail driven into the landscape, a movement with some colander take on new life. opposite finality in its gesture’.2 Then, as in the salutes to Rita Angus, there are Smither’s landscapes: the golden Children at Breakfast Time 1970 Oil on board, 911 x 911 mm For all that, there is a calmness about these works, in contrast to Smither’s hills and bare, layered rock formations of Central Otago and, of course, his many Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, paintings of religious subjects. Their intense, wildly gesticulating figures and staring Taranaki paintings. Human presence is more obvious in the latter, for instance in Alfred University of Otago faces are reminiscent of Stanley Spencer – a painter whom Smither admires for his Road Bridge with Trout (1968), in which the mountain and the river are dominated by left Yellow Rubber Gloves 1977 ‘honesty of feelings’3 the wooden bridge and its huge concrete footings; or View of the White Gate, Kaitakis and whose ‘simplification of forms and use of pattern to create Oil on board, 1202 x 1284 mm dynamics and volume’4 (1977), with ocean breakers surging towards a tamed landscape of gently rolling hills Private collection provided Smither with a model for his own work. Smither’s images are, however, less joyous than Spencer’s, and even where there is ecstasy, and high hedges. The iconic Rocks with Mountain (1968) seems at first sight pure right above anguish never seems far away. landscape, until our eyes light on the red tractor perched high and distant on the vast Rocks with Mountain 1968 Oil on board, 219 x 1600 mm stretch of river boulders. Yet Smither also delights in the natural forms of the Taranaki Collection Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki coastline, its islands and beaches, the interplay of water, stone and sea life. right below 54 Alfred Road Bridge with Trout 1968 Oil on board, 1220 x 1525 mm Private collection

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FHFBOOK FINAL.indd 146 23/6/17 9:50 am RICHARD J. CUTHBERT SEABIRDS BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN CREST The history, natural history and conservation of Hutton’s shearwater

Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest tells the fascinating story of New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s shearwater, a species that breeds only at two remote locations high in the Kaikoura Mountains. Amateur ornithologist Geoff Harrow is the person most closely associated with the story of Hutton’s shearwater, for it was Geoff who discovered the two remaining nesting sites in the 1960s. For five decades he visited the mountains whenever he could to observe and record the birds, and to encourage the Department of Conservation and its predecessors to take steps to conserve this endangered species. As a result, scientist Richard Cuthbert was to spend three years living with 200,000 Hutton’s shearwaters and their neighbours, studying their behaviour, observing their interactions, measuring and recording facts and figures to build a detailed picture of why and how these birds had survived. The discoveries over time of Richard and his co-workers turned received wisdom on its head and revealed a whole new predator story. Richard’s beautifully written, witty account – of the challenge and exasperation, the heartbreak and hardship, and the sheer joy of conservation fieldwork in a remote environment – is cleverly interwoven with other fascinating stories about this species. Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest is a delightful and highly entertaining read.

RICHARD CUTHBERT grew up in the English countryside and had a childhood fascination with nature and a desire to follow in the conservation footsteps of Gerald Durrell, David August 2017 Bellamy and Sir Peter Scott. After obtaining a zoology degree in the UK and five years paperback, full colour travelling in pursuit of mountains and conservation projects, he ended up in New Zealand 240 x 170mm, 212pp and embarked on a PhD at the University of Otago studying Hutton’s shearwaters. His time in ISBN 978-0-947522-64-3, $45 New Zealand forged an enduring wonder for the Kaikoura Mountains and the unique species they contain.

6 I NEW BOOKS CASTING OFF ELSPETH SANDYS A memoir (Volume 2)

At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys’ absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together the events of her early life and find her place in the world. Casting Off begins on the eve of Elspeth’s first marriage. She and her husband will soon depart New Zealand for England, joining a throng of Kiwis who chose to uproot themselves from their native land. New attachments will be formed: new loves – of people; of places – will take the place of the old. But the home country will continue to exercise a pull. Backgrounding the personal story in this deeply satisfying memoir is the story of the Thatcher years and the creeping virus of neo-liberalism, the sexual revolution of the sixties, the beguiling world of books – reading and writing – and theatre. Elspeth Sandys’ refreshing honesty and her skill as a writer of fiction and drama propel the reader through an absorbing life story that is equally a commentary on the meaning of memoir and the peculiarities of memory.

ELSPETH SANDYS has published nine novels and two collections of short stories as well as What Lies Beneath, the earlier volume of this memoir. She has also written numerous original plays and adaptations for the BBC and RNZ, and scripts for film and television. She has held several residencies and won many awards, including the Elena Garro PEN International Prize September 2017 for an unpublished short story collection (2005). Her novel River Lines was long-listed for the paperback, 16pp photos Orange Prize. In 2006 Elspeth was awarded the ONZM for Services to Literature. Elspeth 215 x 165mm, 230pp has two children and six grandchildren. Having lived for over 20 years in Britain she now calls ISBN 978-0-947522-55-1, $35 Wellington home.

NEW BOOKS I 7 RICHARD WALTER & ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS PETER SHEPPARD

Archaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years’ research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard. At the time of first European encounter, the peoples of Melanesia exhibited some of the greatest diversity in language, socio-political organisation and culture expression of any region on earth. This attracted scholars and resulted in coastal Melanesia becoming the birthplace of modern anthropology. The book draws together all the research that has taken place in the field over the past 50 years. Walter and Sheppard are interested in the long-term development of diversity in coastal Melanesia and in the evolution of ‘traditional’ Melanesian societies. They integrate the Solomon Islands into ongoing models and debates around Pacific culture-history, including in such key areas as human expansion during the Pleistocene, the spread of Austronesians, Lapita colonisation, the development of food production, the role of exchange systems, the concept and meaning of culture areas, and human impact on landscapes and ecosystems.

RICHARD WALTER is professor of archaeology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago. In his 30-year career he has authored 50 journal articles, 24 book chapters and six books. His research is field and laboratory based and strives to integrate indigenous and scientific knowledge to construct August 2017 stronger and more nuanced models of the past. He has ongoing projects in New Zealand, the paperback, full colour Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands. 280 x 210mm, 194pp ISBN 978-0-947522-53-7, $50 PETER SHEPPARD is professor of archaeology at the University of Auckland. In his 30-year career he has authored 41 journal articles, 39 book chapters and three books, his most recent article being ‘Detecting early tattooing in the Pacific region through experimental use-wear and residue analyses of obsidian tools’ (with Nina Kononenko and Robin Torrence), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 147–63.

8 I NEW BOOKS CLEANSING THE COLONY KRISTYN HARMAN Transporting convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land

During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). Even more were sentenced by colonial judges to the harsh punishment of transportation, but somehow managed to avoid being sent across the Tasman Sea. In examining the remarkable experiences of unremarkable people, this fascinating book provides insights into the lives of people like William Phelps Pickering, a self-made entrepreneur turned criminal; Margaret Reardon, a potential accomplice to murder and convicted perjurer; and Te Kūmete, a Māori warrior transported as a rebel. Their stories, and others like them, reveal a complex colonial society overseen by a governing class intent on cleansing the colony of what was considered to be a burgeoning criminal underclass. This lively book also offers insights into penal servitude in Van Diemen’s Land as revealed through the lived experiences of the men and sole woman transported from New Zealand. Whether Māori men serving time for political infractions, white-collar criminals, labourers, vagrants or the soldiers sent to fight the empire’s wars, each convict’s experiences reveal something about the way in which the British Empire sought to discipline, punish and reform those who trespassed against it.

KRISTYN HARMAN is a New Zealander living in Australia. She is the author of Aboriginal Convicts, which won the Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels Award for convict history in 2014. Kristyn studied history at Massey University and undertook doctoral research at the University of Tasmania where she now lectures in the School of Humanities. Her expertise spans topics across the Tasman Sea and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, largely focusing on the Australasian colonies and the British Empire. Cleansing the Colony is November 2017 her second book. paperback, 24pp photos 230 x 150mm, 264pp ISBN 978-1-98-853106-9, $35

NEW BOOKS I 9 JONATHAN WEST THE FACE OF NATURE An environmental history of the Otago Peninsula

Bounded by the wild waves of the Pacific on the east, and the more sheltered harbour on the west, the Otago Peninsula is a remarkable landscape that has undergone dramatic changes since it first attracted human settlement. In The Face of Nature: An environmental history of the Otago Peninsula Jonathan West explores what people and place made of one another from the arrival of the first Polynesians until the end of the nineteenth century. The Peninsula has always been one of the places in Otago most important to Māori. In 1844 they reluctantly agreed to split it with the British, but the land Māori retained has remained at the core of their history in the region. The British settlers divided their part of the Peninsula into small farms whose owners transformed it from native forest into cow country that fed a booming Dunedin – at that point New Zealand’s leading commercial city. This rigorously researched, beautifully illustrated local history documents the rapid environmental change that ensued. It incorporates a rich array of maps, paintings and photographs to illustrate the making – and unmaking – of this unique landscape. In doing so it illustrates why the Otago Peninsula is an ideal location through which to understand the larger environmental history of these islands. Balanced more equitably between Māori and Pākehā sources than any other major work on the area, this book is an important contribution to New Zealand’s environmental history. – ATHOLL ANDERSON, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, ANU December 2017 JONATHAN WEST was born and raised in and around Dunedin. While indulging his love of paperback, full colour tramping in the South Island back country he collected degrees from the University of Otago, 240 x 170mm, 384pp culminating in a PhD in history from which this book emerged. He worked as an historian at the ISBN 978-1-927322-38-3, $59.95 Waitangi Tribunal for several years and more recently joined the Office of Treaty Settlements. Jonathan’s publications include contributions to Wild Heart: The possibility of wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand (OUP, 2011), The Lives of Colonial Objects (OUP, 2015) and New Zealand and the Sea (BWB, forthcoming). He lives with his wife Kate and their children in Lower Hutt.

10 I NEW BOOKS THE FACE OF NATURE ‘THe WHOLe FACe OF NATUre IS ALTered’: 1881–1900

on Andersons Bay, and to a lesser extent Portobello, the two key points of access to the Dunedin and Port Chalmers markets respectively. Chinese dominated market gardening. They grew a wide range of vegetables: cauliflowers, red and white cabbages, celery, onions, parsnips, turnips, leeks, lettuces, radishes, peas, beans and herbs. Their success was reportedly due to choosing fine flat land, and continuous and intensive gardening based on the heavy use of horse manure (gathered for free from city stables) THE FACE OF NATURE he wheNua hou: a New laNd and large amounts of labour, including continuous ‘stirring’ of the soil, very extensive watering and careful weeding.25 The Otago Witness admitted that the settlers had something to learn from the Chinese, who threatened to monopolise market gardening, but hoped to drive them from the field by encouraging settlers to copy their techniques, CHAPTER 1: He Whenua Hou: but use ‘ploughs, windmills, and other improved contrivances’ to save labour.26 When Chinese gardeners tried to establish ‘a footing on this stronghold of European labour’ further up the Peninsula, they were ‘hunted off’.27 In 1881, it was reported that ‘for the ‘Sheet No. 14: Military topographical survey: Andersons Bay and part of Otago Peninsula dist.’ A new land first time in Portobello the Chinamen have succeeded in establishing themselves here. (detail). W.T. Neill, surveyor. Archives New Zealand (Dunedin): DAHG 23774 D591 644/c 14 R23188979. A number of them are being employed in clearing bush in the Native reserve, Cape Saunders.’28 The large Chinese market gardens that developed on the southern headlands of Andersons Bay are shown on the left of Figure XX. This is a detail from William Thompson Neill’s 1901 mapping of the Peninsula as part of a survey of Dunedin and its surrounds ‘for the Intelligence Office’. Neill was later surveyor-general and his work Na Te Po, ko Te Ao was ‘most minutely and carefully done’: the resulting maps, at a scale of 10 chains to Na Te Ao, ko Te Aomarama the inch, display the Peninsula in extraordinary detail. Each farm building on the Na Te Aomarama, Ko Te Aoturoa Peninsula is marked, as are fences, fields and patches of forest.29 This particular detail Na Te Aoturoa, Ko Te Koretewiwhia also illustrates the mingling of suburban and rural development that had accompanied Na Te Koretewiwhia, Ko Te Koreterawea the intensification of farming on the Peninsula, and the growth of Dunedin. Notable Na Te Koreterawea, Ko Te Koretetaumaua features include the causeway across Andersons Bay, with its bridge that had been Na Te Koretetaumaua, ko Te Korematua Na Te Korematua, Ko Te Maku Below: A panorama of Portobello, c.1900. The buildings are still very few, but by now the farmers Sheet No. 16: Military Topographical Plan. have succeded in turning the hillsides into clean paddocks. Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University W.T. Neill, surveyor. Archives New Zealand (Dunedin): DAHG 23774 D591 644/c 14 R22756747. From the first glimmer of light, of Otago: SO7-136c. Emerged the long-standing light until light stood in all quarters, Encompassing all was a womb of emptiness, An intangible void intense in its search for procreation Until it reached its ultimate boundaries and became a parentless void with the potential for life1

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It is safe to say that the Collector benefits both physically and mentally, he has © Ian Thomson frequently to tramp considerable distances on his hunting or fossicking expeditions, his eyesight is improved and rendered capable of spotting small articles amid a waste arrI of sand, stones and shell heaps, his mind is exercised too, as he has to do a certain val aNd a 32 33 daPTaTIoN amount of gloating over a find, and to speculate and determine all sorts of things N T he oTago PeNINsula: 1848–61 in connection therewith, whether the fish-hook just discovered is of human bone or BrITIsh seTTlemeNT o otherwise, and so on.55

THE FACE OF NATURE Unfortunately, men such as Murdoch were interested only in the artefacts, their treasure, and paid scant attention to the ‘waste’ in which they were embedded. But to modern archaeology, context is everything: objects detached without detailed records The vIsIoN of the landscape that Thomas Burns and the settlers strove to create is seen in two similar paintings by surveyors: edward Immyns Abbott’s view of dunedin of where they were found are almost meaningless. All the major occupation sites of the looking across from ‘Little Paisley’, site of what is now the Southern Cemetery, Otago Peninsula have been so badly disturbed or looted for artefacts that archaeologists and John Turnbull Thomson’s depiction of a view from on or near Burns’ land at have largely abandoned them as sources for systematic excavations. Andersons Bay in 1856. What little we know of the ‘Harwood’ site on Akapatiki Flat suggests that it may As James Beattie has noted, Thomson and Abbott have depicted how dunedin’s well have been like Shag River Mouth, a village hub within a network of wider sites. But inhabitants wished to appear to the outside world: their town is peaceably laid out it is buried now under Harwood township, named after Octavius Harwood who came before the gaze of well-dressed sightseers; the hills have been flattened; the extent to Ōtākou in the 1830s. Ever since arrival, Europeans have been finding evidence that of native forest in the distance reduced; and the few plants framing the foreground people once lived on the flat, and inadvertent finds continue today. Harwood himself are ornamental specimens of cabbage tree or flax, seemingly retained to emphasise 50 dug up hundreds of moa bones in making his garden. He was Oxford-educated, and the pasture swathing the hillside. indulged a scientific curiosity; in his first letter from the Peninsula to his parents he wrote: ‘I intend collection [of] all the curiosities on natural history possible, and turning them to some account.’ 59 b ir d s’, 60 and constructed many moa Over skeletons, many years, selling he some stuffed in 1872 ‘a fine and collection later presenting of native others to the Otago Museum. 61 His daughter still inherited a shed ‘full of boxes oN curreNT accouNTs, of moa bones all round the walls’. Above: Edward Immyns Abbott, there were nine different moa flat unearthed yet more moa, so that62 Ploughing maps marked the species. Four were found on Dunedin from Little Paisley: 1849, the area as ‘strewn with moa bones’. the Peninsula and elsewhere watercolour on paper, 177 x 275 mm. this disturbance, archaeologists have63 Becausenot bothered of all Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University in coastal Otago.70 The most to excavate Harwood, and no house sites or graves of Otago: #557. common was the relatively small 40-80-kilogram Emeus have ever been found. But the late local historian and Left: John Turnbull Thomson, crassus, but the diverse iconoclast Hardwicke Knight did some digging in the Dunedin, New Zealand, from hills, forests, shrublands 1960s, and described finding two cultural layers, the Hocken Collections, and swamps also supported Andersons Bay: 1856. top containing moa, the bottom being almost entirely Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago: S06-458c.a few of the enormous 250-kilogram Dinornis seal bone. 64 More digging in the 1970s found flakes of Nelson and Southland argillite. Two pictures with similar concerns: robustusto , as well as numbers 65 Lucy Ann Harwood, show the settlement as a paradise inof more middling moa like Octavius’ granddaughter, made the most spectacular the making. The settlers survey cleanEmeus curtus and Pachyornis find of all, when while digging her garden she turned elephantopus. fields, sturdy homes and warming 71 up three large and beautifully finished pounamu adzes. fires, while at their ease on a limpid The presence of so many moa tells us that Harwood The records of the Otago Museum describe Octavius Harwood’s 10 moa skeletons as ‘said to be Dunedin day. Abbot’s image was “individuals” but in poor state of preservation: & repaired with wood’. They were broken up by the lithographed and distributed in museum, and the bones ‘of any use’ are now stored in ‘like parts’, such as these crania (left) and Britain to publicise the success of the52 femurs (above). colony. Otago Museum, AV3712-AV3714, AV3719-AV3723; Otago Museum, AV4150–AV4153

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170 NEW BOOKS I 11 12 I NEW BOOKS FLOATING ISLANDERS LISA WARRINGTON AND DAVID O’DONNELL

This book celebrates 30 years of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Pacific Underground, Pacific Theatre, The Laughing Samoans, The Conch, The Naked Samoans, Floating Islanders Kila Kokonut Krew – the distinctive style and themes of Pasifika theatre have been Pasifika Theatre developed by many individuals and theatre companies in New Zealand. in Aotearoa The authors have interviewed over 30 theatre practitioners to tell the story of Pasifika Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell theatre in Aotearoa from 1984 to 2015. This lively book showcases playwrights, directors and performers whose heritage lies in Samoa, Niue, Fiji, Tonga, Tokelau and the Cook Islands. Extracts from the interviews are threaded throughout the book, providing often entertaining insights into their history and creative practice. While the immigrant experience of living in two worlds is often seen as troubled, the authors suggest that this ‘in-between-ness’ has been turned to advantage in Pasifika theatre to create a unique and often subversive performance phenomenon. Not only is Pasifika theatre a success story within the performing arts in New Zealand, it is also an intriguing case study of migrant theatre that has international resonance.

LISA WARRINGTON is a theatre director and associate professor in theatre studies at the University of Otago. She has directed over 125 productions, including 30 for Dunedin’s professional company the Fortune Theatre. She co-edited Playlunch, a volume of short plays that is now in its second edition (OUP), and has published a number of articles on New Zealand theatre and colonial theatre history. Theatre Aotearoa, Lisa’s database of all New Zealand theatre, including over 14,000 productions, may be viewed at http://tadb.otago.ac.nz. DAVID O’DONNELL is a theatre director and associate professor in theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. He has directed premieres of many New Zealand plays, including November 2017 Heat by Lynda Chanwai-Earle and West End Girls by Ken Duncum. In 2004 he was voted paperback, 32pp photos director of the year in the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. David has published widely on New 235 x 155mm, 316pp Zealand theatre, including co-editing (with Marc Maufort) Performing Aotearoa (2007), and has ISBN 978-1-98-853107-6, $39.95 been editor of the Playmarket New Zealand Play Series since 2010.

NEW BOOKS I 13 STEVAN ELDRED-GRIGG PHONEY WARS with HUGH ELDRED-GRIGG New Zealand society in the Second World War

Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Contrary to the propaganda of the time – and subsequent memory – going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, the authors explore New Zealanders’ hopes and fears, beliefs and superstitions, rationing and greed, hysteria and humour, violence and kindness, to argue that New Zealand need not have involved itself in the war at all. Stevan Eldred-Grigg defies classification. He can swoop from the historical to the contemporary, from lyric to polemic, from fiction to faction. He’s unsettling as well as absorbing. – DAVID HILL, NZ HERALD

STEVAN ELDRED-GRIGG is a leading novelist and historian. He is the author of many books, fiction and non-fiction, among them Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The story of the New Zealand gold rushes (Penguin, 2008), and White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand, 1790–1950 (OUP, 2014). His The Great Wrong War: New Zealand society in World War I (Penguin, 2010), polarised readers, with its author accused by some of betraying his country, while October 2017 others congratulated him for setting the record straight. He now turns his uncompromising paperback, full colour gaze on the Second World War. 240 x 170mm, 424pp HUGH ELDRED-GRIGG has an MA in political science from Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 978-0-947522-23-0, $49.95 Since graduating he has worked as a teaching assistant at VUW, a high school teacher in Japan and Estonia, and a lecturer at Xiamen University in China. He is the author of ‘What if the Published with the assistance of Moyle Affair had never happened?’ in Stephen Levine (ed.),New Zealand as it Might Have Been Creative New Zealand (VUP, 2006).

14 I NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS I 15 RONALD W. JONES DOCTORS IN DENIAL The forgotten women in the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’

When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women’s Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green’s study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) – later called ‘the unfortunate experiment’ – had been in progress for seven years. By the mid-1960s there was almost universal agreement among gynaecologists and pathologists worldwide that CIS was a precursor of cancer, requiring complete removal. Green, however, believed otherwise, and embarked on a study of women with CIS, without their consent, that involved merely observing, rather than definitively treating them. Many women subsequently developed cancer and some died. In 1984 Jones and senior colleagues Dr Bill McIndoe and Dr Jock McLean published a scientific paper that exposed the truth, and the disastrous outcome of Green’s experiment. In a public inquiry in 1987 Judge Silvia Cartwright observed that an unethical experiment had been carried out in large numbers of women for over 20 years. Ron Jones tells his personal story: a story of the unnecessary suffering of countless women, a story of professional arrogance and misplaced loyalties, and a story of doctors in denial of the truth. Meticulously referenced, engagingly honest and a rewarding read. – RAE VARCOE, NEW ZEALAND BOOKS

RONALD W. JONES is a retired obstetrician and gynaecologist and former clinical professor at the University of Auckland. He is a widely published international authority on lower In print genital tract pre-cancer and cancer. For over 30 years he has served on a range of national paperback, 16pp photos and international committees addressing the natural history, prevention and management of 230 x 150mm, 264pp these cancers. He is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal ISBN 978-0-947522-43-8, $39.95 Disease and chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Federation of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy.

16 I NEW BOOKS DISOBEDIENT TEACHING WELBY INGS Surviving and creating change in education

This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who transform people’s lives, not by climbing promotion ladders but by operating at the grassroots. Disobedient Teaching tells stories from the chalk face. Some are funny and some are heartbreaking, but they all happened in New Zealand schools. This book says you can reform things in a system that has become obsessed with assessment and tick-box reporting. It shows how the essence of what makes a great teacher is the ability to change educational practices that have been shaped by anxiety, ritual and convention. Disobedient Teaching argues the transformative power of teachers who think and act.

Disobedient Teaching is a profoundly moving book. It speaks to the very heart of teaching practice: how and why we as teachers relate to others. It puts a spotlight on what we hope to achieve, and how we go about achieving it. – GRANT REID, EDUCATION AOTEAROA

WELBY INGS is a professor of design at Auckland University of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts and a consultant to many international organisations on issues of creativity and learning. He is also an award-winning academic, designer, filmmaker and playwright. But until the age of 15 Welby could neither read nor In print write. He was considered ‘slow’ at school and he was eventually expelled. Later he was paperback suspended from teachers’ college. Welby has taught at all levels of the New Zealand 230 x 155mm, 208pp education system and remains an outspoken critic of the education system’s ‘obsession’ with ISBN 978-1-927322-66-6, $35 assessing performance. In 2001 he was awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.

NEW BOOKS I 17 SUE WOOTTON THE YIELD

The Yield is the vivid and lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. These poems are sensorially alive, deeply attentive to language, the body, and the world around us. Down in the bone the word-strands glimmer and ascend often disordered, often in dreams, bone-knowledge beating a path through the body to the throat labouring to enter the alphabet. – ‘Lingua Incognita’ Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energising power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; about sowing, tending and reaping. Sue Wootton brings her characteristic linguistic dexterity, exuberance and versatility to every page. The Yield is rich harvest. Sue Wootton’s latest collection of poetry is a sumptuous read, a read that sparks in new directions while clearly in debt to everything she has written to date. – PAULA GREEN, NZ POETRY SHELF

SUE WOOTTON has published five volumes of poetry and has received several awards, including the 2015 Caselburg Trust International Poetry Prize and second place in the 2013 In print International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She won the 2011 NZ Poetry Society paperback International Poetry Competition and has twice won the Takahē Poetry Competition. Her first 235 x 165mm, 84pp novel, Strip (Mākaro Press, 2016), was longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ ISBN 978-0-947522-48-3, $25 Book Awards. A former physiotherapist, Sue lives in Dunedin where she is the selecting editor for the Otago Daily Times Weekend Poem column, and co-editor of the Medical Humanities blog Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life. www.suewootton.com

18 I NEW BOOKS MANIFESTO AOTEAROA PHILIP TEMPLE AND 101 political poems EMMA NEALE EDITORS

A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty; from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent. Communally these writers show that political poems can be the most vivid and eloquent calls for empathy, for action and revolution, even for a simple calling to account.

PHILIP TEMPLE is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, often on subjects associated with New Zealand history and the natural world. He also won an award for his influential writing on electoral reform during the 1992–93 MMP campaign. Philip was the recipient of the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and, earlier, held both the Menton Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and the Robert Burns Fellowship. He has received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement and been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services to literature. www.philiptemple.com

EMMA NEALE has written six novels and a number of poetry collections, and has edited anthologies of both short stories and poetry. Neale won the Todd New Writers’ Bursary in 2000, was the inaugural recipient of the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature (2008), and was the 2012 Robert Burns Fellow. Her poetry collection The Truth Garden won In print the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award in 2011, and Tender Machines (OUP, 2015) was longlisted hardback with ribbon for the inaugural Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She teaches, works in publishing and 230 x 150mm, 192pp looks after her two young children. Emma blogs at emmaneale.wordpress.com ISBN 978-0-947522-46-9, $35

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NEW BOOKS I 19 SUSANNAH GRANT WINDOWS ON A WOMEN’S WORLD The Dominican Sisters of Aotearoa New Zealand

The first 10 Dominican sisters arrived in Dunedin in 1871. The congregation expanded rapidly, establishing schools throughout Otago and Southland, and eventually reaching as far north as Auckland. For most of their first century in New Zealand the Dominican sisters were teaching nuns, living in large enclosed convents cut off from the outside world. In the mid-1960s the Second Vatican Council ushered in a period of radical change. The sisters moved out of their convents and into small homes in their local neighbourhoods; out of their schools and into new roles in education, social justice, pastoral care and spirituality. Today they are an ageing congregation that is diminishing in size. Susannah Grant was given full access to the congregation’s rich archives in order to write this book, from the point of view of an ‘outsider’. She has also completed a large number of oral histories with the sisters. In this moving and beautifully written book she chronicles the astonishing transformation of the New Zealand Dominican sisters from a strictly enclosed body of religious teachers to a congregation of religious women who are integrated in the wider community and engaged in a range of active ministries, while still remaining deeply committed to shared Dominican ideals.

In print A highly readable narrative of devotion, contemplation, enclosure, immersion, and above paperback, full colour all, service to others. – JUDY SINCLAIR, OAMARU MAIL 240 x 200mm, 320pp ISBN 978-0-947522-42-1, $49.95 SUSANNAH GRANT completed a PhD in History at the University of Otago in 2005 with a thesis titled ‘God’s Governor: George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845–53’. Published with the assistance of In 2011 she completed a commissioned history of St Margaret’s College, Dunedin’s first hall Creative New Zealand of residence for women university and teachers’ college students: Vision for the Future: A centennial history of St Margaret’s College. Susannah lives with her family on the banks of the

20 I NEW BOOKS CHARLES BRASCH JOURNALS 1945–1957 PETER SIMPSON EDITOR Selected and introduced by Peter Simpson

This second volume of Charles Brasch’s journals begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II at the age of 36, and covers the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand’s leading artists and intelligentsia. His frank and often detailed descriptions of these people – including Frank Sargeson, A.R.D. Fairburn, Keith Sinclair, Eric McCormick, James Bertram, J.C. Beaglehole, Maria Dronke, Fred and Evelyn Page, Alistair Campbell, Bill Oliver, Toss and Edith Woollaston, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Leo Bensemann, Lawrence Baigent, Ngaio Marsh, Colin McCahon, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Ruth Dallas and many others – are among the highlights of the book. Unmarried and longing for intimacy, Brasch also writes with great candour about his relationships with Rose Archdall, Rodney Kennedy and Harry Scott, revealing a side of himself that has not been known about before. Central to Brasch’s life was the vocation of poetry. He writes movingly about his own work, and also about his love of nature and the outdoors. The book ends with his visit to Europe in 1957, which confirmed his sense that New Zealand had become for him ‘a centre & a world’. A lengthy introduction by Peter Simpson and other editorial apparatus guide the reader through this engrossing material.

PETER SIMPSON is a writer, editor and curator who has taught at universities in New Zealand and Canada. He was director of the Holloway Press and a head of English at the In print University of Auckland, retiring in 2013. Peter has written and edited many books and hardback with ribbon essays on New Zealand art, literature and cultural history, including titles on Ronald Hugh 210 x 140mm, 686pp Morrieson, Allen Curnow, Colin McCahon, Kendrick Smithyman and Leo Bensemann. Recent ISBN: 978-1-927322-28-4, $59.95 projects include Bloomsbury South: The arts in Christchurch 1933–53 (AUP, 2016), and Leo Bensemann & Friends: Portraiture & The Group (2016), an exhibition curated for the New Published with the assistance of Zealand Portrait Gallery. He lives in Auckland. Creative New Zealand

NEW BOOKS I 21 LANDFALL: AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND ARTS AND LETTERS

EDITED BY DAVID EGGLETON LANDFALL SUBSCRIBE NEW ZEALAND’S LONGEST RUNNING LITERARY JOURNAL, NOW IN ITS 71st YEAR WWW.OTAGO.AC.NZ/PRESS/LANDFALL/ FEATURED AWARDS: LANDFALL ESSAY COMPETITION SUBSCRIPTION/INDEX.HTML KATHLEEN GRATTAN POETRY AWARD CASELBERG TRUST INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE CHARLES BRASCH YOUNG WRITERS’ ESSAY COMPETITION LANDFALL REVIEW ONLINE WWW.LANDFALLREVIEW.COM NEW REVIEWS EACH MONTH, LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL BOOKS

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AUTUMN 2017 AUTUMN 233 • SPECIAL 70th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE This is the 70th anniversary issue thatLandfall aotearoa new zealand arts and letters • ESSAYS BY FORMER LANDFALL EDITORS has been both reflecting and shaping New Zealand • RESULTS OF CHARLES BRASCH YOUNG literary culture … the production quality is WRITERS’ ESSAY COMPETITION wonderful and there is something for everyone. – LOUISE O’BRIEN, NINE TO NOON, RNZ ART: Chris Corson-Scott, Heather Straka, Jenna Packer, Samuel Harrison WRITING: Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, Nick Ascroft, Claire Baylis, Miro Bilbrough, Victoria Broome, Iain Britton, Owen Bullock, Christine Burrows, Brent Cantwell, Marisa Cappetta, Joanna Cho, Stephanie Christie, Makyla Curtis, Doc Drumheller, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, Johanna Emeney, Riemke Ensing, Ciaran Fox, Michael Gould, Sarah 70th Anniversary Issue Grout, Shen Haobo, Paula Harris, René Harrison, Stephen Higginson, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, ANNOUNCING the winner of the Amanda Hunt, Anna Jackson, Ted Jenner, Anne Charles BraschYoung Writers’ Essay Competition 2017 Kennedy, Erik Kennedy, Jessica le Bas, Wes Lee, Michele Leggott, Carolyn McCurdie, Robert McLean, Fardowsa Mohamed, Kavita Ivy Nandan, In print Emma Neale, Piet Nieuwland, Claire Orchard, paperback, 16pp colour Bob Orr, Jenny Powell, Chris Price, Helen 215 x 165mm, 208pp Rickerby, Ron Riddell, L.E. Scott, Iain Sharp, Charlotte Simmonds, Peter Simpson, Tracey ISBN 978-0-947522-52-0, $30 Slaughter, Laura Solomon, Barry Southam, Matafanua Tamatoa, Philip Temple, Dunstan Published with the assistance of Ward, Elizabeth Welsh, Sue Wootton, Mark Creative New Zealand Young, Karen Zelas.

NEW BOOKS I 23 DAVID HOWARD THE ONES WHO KEEP QUIET

The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian banker retrieving his top hat from the gutter. A walk across a bridge lets you pass the ghosts of a Catholic saint, a Marxist martyr, and a boy with a tin drum. The dead are there to be heard; they are also listening to you. The Ones Who Keep Quiet showcases David Howard’s ability to give our world a metaphysical mulling, which he achieves with memorable lyricism and an edgy attention to questions of identity and time, silence and isolation. Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award judge Emma Neale noted this new collection’s extraordinary range, from mordant puns and verse drama to unexpected polyphonic juxtapositions, ‘as if the poems have been internally pleated’.

In his judder-bar voice, Dad pulls up Mum: ‘It’s good enough for the likes of us.’ Awake to the dream of a state house, the sound of an egg beater inside that dream; on orange formica, the second-best tea set; three ducks above a coke fire steaming smalls. My sister plaits her hair – ‘Fuck, let’s go to the shops so someone will talk to us.’

This is an intellectually challenging collection by a master poet who knows exactly what he is about. – NICHOLAS REID, REID’S READER In print DAVID HOWARD spent 35 years writing The Incomplete Poems (Cold Hub Press, 2011). He is paperback the editor of A Place To Go On From: The collected poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 235 x 155mm, 96pp 2015). He has held the Robert Burns Fellowship (2013), the Otago Wallace Residency (2014), ISBN 978-0-947522-44-5, $25 a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016), and the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016).

24 I NEW BOOKS ALZHEIMER’S AND A SPOON LIZ BRESLIN

when life gives you spoons, demand a refund, an inquiry when life gives you spoons, scoop the innards, carve a heart when life gives you spoons, collect a set

Alzheimer’s and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories – a conversation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to determine if you’re mostly meercat or Hufflepuff. Personal tales, of Liz’s babcia, a devout Catholic and a soldier in the Warsaw Uprising, who spent her last years with Alzheimer’s disease. There is much to remember that she so badly wanted to forget. What do you do when life gives you spoons?

To find this kind of sheer brio and linguistic flair in New Zealand writing, one inevitably goes back to Janet Frame. – VINCENT O’SULLIVAN As spatial derivatives become frozen through frantic and critical practice, the viewer is leftwith an insight into the edges of our condition.– ARTYBOLLOCKS.COM

LIZ BRESLIN lives in Hawea Flat, New Zealand, and writes poems, plays and stories as well as a fortnightly column for the Otago Daily Times. She is comfy on the page and the stage, was second runner-up in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Slam, performed at the 2016 TEDx Queenstown and came third in the Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition the same year. This is her first collection. www.lizbreslin.com In print paperback 235 x 155mm, 76pp ISBN 978-0-947522-98-8, $25

NEW BOOKS I 25 JENNY COLEMAN POLLY PLUM A firm and earnest woman’s advocate, Mary Ann Colclough 1836–1885

Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand’s earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions saw her described in the nineteenth century as ‘our own little stray strap of a modern female fanatic’. English-born Mary Ann Barnes came to New Zealand in 1857, and soon gained notoriety for her outspokenness on issues relating to women’s position in society. A teacher and also a journalist for the Daily Southern Cross and the Weekly News under the nom de plume ‘Polly Plum’, she also engaged in public debates through the letters to the editor columns, undeterred by becoming ‘the best abused woman in New Zealand in the present d a y ’. In this fine biography, Jenny Coleman argues that Mary Ann Colclough’s contribution to the women’s movement in nineteenth-century New Zealand is at least equal to that of Kate Sheppard. A good two decades ahead of the organised women’s movement, ‘Polly Plum’ began politicising women by writing about the realities of their daily lives, what needed to change and how. Coleman here reclaims Mary Ann Colclough’s place in New Zealand’s feminist history by bringing her life and contributions to a wider audience.

JENNY COLEMAN is a senior lecturer and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. She was head of the Women’s Studies Programme at Massey 2000–11 and coordinating editor of the Women’s In print Studies Journal 2004–09. She has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century New paperback, 8pp photos Zealand women’s history topics, and published Mad or Bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock 230 x 165mm, 288pp 1859–1943 through Otago University Press in 2010. ISBN 978-0-947522-47-6, $39.95

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HIGHLIGHTSNEW OFBOOKS 2018 II 27 AN ANTHOLOGY OF NZ MOUNTAIN WRITING, 1830–2015

EDITED BY LAURENCE FEARNLEY AND PAUL HERSEY

Gems of mountaineering writing from known and unknown sources – from romanticism to misery, towering precipices to blistered feet.

Freda du Faur with Alec and Peter Graham. PA1-o-406-021-4, Alexander Turnbull Library

28 II NEWHIGHLIGHTS BOOKS OF 2018 LETTERS OF DENIS GLOVER

SELECTED AND EDITED BY SARAH SHIEFF

Oh Christ, a bloody ½ witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said that isn’t there? So much. And I have been very rude indeed. – DG TO JOHN REECE COLE, 16 August 1949

Sitting on poetry is like trying to hatch chicks out of the Moeraki boulders. – DG TO M.K. JOSEPH, 20 August 1952

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Photograph courtesy of Rupert Glover

HIGHLIGHTSNEW OFBOOKS 2018 II 29 HUDSON & HALLS INSEPARABLE

JOANNE DRAYTON

A rich and colourful story of love, outrageous behaviour and a nation’s bad attitudes. A story of international cuisine coming to a culinary outpost, of the reach of television in the 1970s–90s and its power to reshape mass thinking, of the rise of the celebrity chef … New York Times bestselling author Joanne Drayton (The Search for Anne Perry) writes about the lives and legacy of Hudson and Halls, locating their contribution both locally and internationally. About David Halls, with parents who were in service in England, whose humble beginnings were unimaginably altered; and about Peter Hudson, whose partnership with Halls helped him transcend a privileged but troubled past. It is the intimate record of two celebrities who were obviously but not openly gay at a time when their personal relationship was against the law.

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30 II NEWHIGHLIGHTS BOOKS OF 2018 WILD HONEY: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry

PAULA GREEN

There is a significant gap in the documentation and criticism of New Zealand women poets writing in English. There have been monographs on specific women (Robin Hyde, Ursula Bethell, Eileen Duggan, Joanna Paul) and several anthologies devoted to women poets. However, nobody has traced the development of New Zealand women’s poetry in terms of themes, styles, innovations and resistances, or in view of relations with the mainstream, men poets and literary traditions. Paula Green (NZ Poetry Shelf, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry) has set herself this task, exploring the ways in which the fact that the poet is a woman makes – or does not make – a difference.

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