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27/10/2020

Hare & Ruru
by Laura Shallcrass

The cover of this book is striking. There’s no doubting that, and it’s what drew my attention first.
And it doesn’t stop there; the artwork throughout is of the same vivid, high quality.
It’s a book that any children’s library shelf would be proud to display.
When I first saw the title, I thought it was a book with a Maori focus but soon realised Hare is the long-eared animal strongly resembling a rabbit.
The storyline is how Hare sets out to find quiet.
At the end of the book there are teaching notes to perhaps help the reader find their ‘quiet’.
The font is rather small if this book is aimed at younger readers. My experience is that children prefer the larger print in order to follow the story more clearly. Also if the child is not actually holding the book the print could be a little larger. But having said that, this is a book for anybody, as written by the author -
‘Hare lived in a quiet corner, but there was still noise...
This is the story of Hare, who struggles to find quiet even in peaceful places.
Hare goes on a journey to try and find a solution.
This gentle heartwarming story is for anybody who suffers from noises, anxiety or loud feelings.’
There are a couple of minor editing bloopers but overall this is a book that is beautifully presented.

Review by Susan Tarr

Title: Hare & Ruru
Author: Laura Shallcrass
Publisher: Beatnik
ISBN: 9780995118058
RRP: $30
Available: bookshops

Between a personal memoir and a biography

19/10/2020

Bill and Shirley, A Memoir
by Keith Ovenden

The really good books are, perhaps, those in which the second reading provides the real insight. If so, Keith Ovenden’s ‘memoir’ of his parents-in-law, Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith, certainly qualifies. Even for those familiar with the Sutch saga in the 1970s, and his infamous spy trial, there is more detail here. More importantly, Shirley now receives equal billing; and though her memoir is separate, it is not secondary.
Having completed a first reading, it is essential to then read the author’s excursus: ‘Between memoir and biography’. For this book is somewhere between a personal memoir and a biography, as it includes some very intimate details. This is because of Ovenden’s inclusion of new revelations in the book that would otherwise be personal secrets, found in private letters between other family members not in the public eye.
One has to have a major reservation about the memoir, where both Bill and Shirley’s late siblings are being exposed. Ovenden states that “a choice of privacy is worthy of respect,” referring to his previous biographical work. But those choices are not made by the deceased who happened to have had more illustrious older siblings. I have to say that the choice to include these secrets is potentially dubious. With regard to Bill, it primarily involves his infidelity, with a woman that is clearly identified; but there is also a further twist to the tale, as evident in her personal letters to Sutch’s sister.
There is also an issue with regard to the memoir of Shirley Smith, and, in particular, her relationship with half-brother Allan. This tends to be based less on documentary evidence, and more on actual experience, but it has now been made public. It’s hard to say if this exposure is really necessary. Shirley was already the subject of a biography, and this information was either not available to the author, or she omitted it.
Nevertheless it seems that Shirley, and her sister-in-law, Helen Smith, had to do a ‘stand by your man’ routine. Shirley could have stayed in England, having received another marriage proposal; and Bill could have remained in New York with his lover, but chose to return to New Zealand. The confirmation of infidelity does not help his cause, and nor does the tolerance of it by Shirley, even if she was always faithful.
It is Shirley that is portrayed as a path-breaking woman, from her move to Oxford University for under-graduate studies at 18, to her career as a lawyer and advocate.
Yet it is the memoir of Bill at the beginning that requires the close reading, before the new revelations of his personal issues, and consideration of his final dénouement. His O.E. was even more prestigious, in gaining a scholarship to do a PhD at Columbia University, and also a greater strain for a working class boy from New Zealand. As Ovenden puts it: “it may be difficult – though I saw it very clearly in the early 1970s – to understand what an immense transformation this was.” He says it created a range of key characteristics, both his sense of insecurity, and an ‘immoderate self confidence’.
But apparently this achievement also enhanced Sutch’s sense of place, and feeling of nationalism, as evidenced in his books. Maybe. But it is worth noting that Sutch was able to combine being part of an intellectual elite, with an enduring left wing perspective; as did Shirley Smith, whose legal practice helped the poorest people in New Zealand. It was their intellectual milieu that disintegrated after Sutch’s acquittal.

Review by S A Boyce

Title: Bill and Shirley, A Memoir
Author: Keith Ovenden
Publisher: Massey University Press
ISBN: 978-0-9951318-3-5
RRP: $35.00
Available: Limpbound, available from your local bookshop and online

Wealth of wisdom in poems

14/10/2020

Body Politic
by Mary Cresswell

This is a slim book, just 68 pages, nicely presented, with a wealth of wisdom to be gleaned from the 51 poems.
Mary Cresswell has been in New Zealand for 50 years so much of the content is rooted in the bones of this country – the rocks, volcanoes, streambeds, coastlines, flora and fauna. Yet an earlier influence breaks in from time to time in allusions and word-use, providing a broader, more universal aspect to her work.
This book will be shelved under ‘poetry’ in any system, and rightly so. Yet there’s much variety in the 51 entries, some set out as prose and even two as numbered lists. At times this poet is creative in layout to spark our subconscious to add meaning. Others employ a variety of verse forms – so much so, that there’s no one form that suggests it is the norm from which others depart.
Prevalent themes are the natural environment and human relationship to it, the sea, faith and, right-up-to-date, virus. Here again, there’s not a single approach. Mother Nature is not always nurturing, as seen in Song to nature –
You rip the ground open, toss hillsides and buildings into
rubble. You crush my sisters and brothers beneath, and
they die too fast to cry.
And while a deep concern for the environment and conservation is very evident, this is challenged in the most delightful Moa’s advice to the kākāpō, which could be read as a cautionary tale.
Me? I’ve been there, done that, got
the T-shirt. It’s not extinction I mind –
it’s what they do to you on the way …
Classical references and lines inspired by other poets add to the depth and skill of Mary Cresswell’s verses, with several of her titles being a response to their works. It is clear that here is a poet who reads other poets; who is intelligent, perceptive, and worthy of reserving a place on the international stage.

Review by J.M.

Title: Body Politic
Author: Mary Cresswell
Publisher: The Cuba Press
ISBN: 978-1-98-859522-1
RRP: $25
Available: https://thecubapress.nz/shop/body-politic

Argument for political reform

7/10/2020

Who Dropped the Ball? Democracy in Crisis
by David Chapman

In a nutshell this is a unique polemic with a clear analysis of recent political history, and an argument for reform. However, it is not the actual case for reform that is compelling, but the economic analysis that precedes it that is so cogent. Although it was probably written before the Covid crisis, and the sweeping measures that resulted from it, the most important thing is the historical context that Chapman provides.
     This is in fact a collection of short chapters that can be read quickly, and the book as a whole in one sitting. It also relies on readers being familiar with the political context, especially pre-MMP politics. Chapman is obviously an older New Zealander, with a good memory for anecdotes and examples that help his argument. And, unlike most older citizens, he is not very conservative (as in right wing). Despite being in business, Chapman actually seems to prefer the current Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and even has a soft spot for Metiria Turei, the former Green Party leader.
   This is one of the more interesting points he makes, it is not that we have got the wrong person in the job, it is just the way that it happened that concerns him. I think this is mostly because it singles out an individual and whether they are liked in the opinion polls, which are a construction of the news media. But Chapman seems to think the main problem is with the political parties. So basically he wants to outlaw political parties, and then have a benevolent elite of public figures work out who the best representatives should be, and allow Parliament as a whole to govern. This would also end the role of the Executive in the governing process, something which he does not really consider, as with other obvious aspects of a constitutional democracy.
   The removal of political parties comes despite the impact of the new electoral system, MMP. However, it has to be said that the MMP system would allow for many more independent voices in Parliament if we used the electorate vote to put them in there. Chapman came to his views on parties as a satirical one, but plays it out anyway.
   In terms of ‘Who dropped the ball’, this goes back to politicians in the 1980s, especially Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble, who said one thing then imposed a whole other agenda. It does not help the analysis that Chapman continually refers to ‘neo-liberalism’, a term that was not used at the time, but at least he does not use the phrase ‘Rogernomics’. This may seem old hat, but the economic analysis is very good. It simply remains to find fault with the individuals, or the institutions involved.
   Essentially, Chapman’s position is that elected politicians allowed foreign capital to come in with little ongoing scrutiny, at the same time as the public assets were given away in a fire sale. The questions remain over the latter, and who really forced the political parties into it. Chapman makes the point that one of the beneficiaries of privatisation, the Fay Richwhite company, appears to have been insolvent the whole time it was involved in the asset sales. The real culprits must be who knew about this at the time, but ignored it.
   Chapman’s overall message is about the loss of economic sovereignty, and the fact that unemployment never got back below what it was in the mid 1980s. But in the end the case is a moral one, when society is reduced to economic self interest and greed.

Review by S A Boyce

Title: Who Dropped the Ball? Democracy in Crisis
Author: David Chapman
Publisher: Copy Press and David Chapman
ISBN: 9780473517328
RRP: $20
Available: https://whodroppedtheball.co.nz/

What's not to like?

30/9/2020

AUP New Poets 7
by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae, Claudia Jardine
Anna Jackson (ed)

AUP have done it again, and well done: tonight’s concert, ably conducted by Anna Jackson, begins with Rhys Feeney’s ‘soy boy’, an active and energetic word explosion on being awake in the world. Ria Masae’s ‘What She Seees from Atop the Mauga’ is more internal, going back and forth from Aotearoa to Samoa. Claudia Jardine’s ‘The Temple of Your Girl’ builds on classical references, giving us a wide-ranging group of personalities.
Rhys Feeney goes from extreme to extreme, carrying on his back a huge (but not rejected) weight of awareness and the possibility of awareness, using wonderful images:
be a good patriot & eat a kilo of cheese with weet-bix
drink milk from a deforested plantation in brazil
or cowmilk from a waikato farm that runs right into the river
while the CEO of fonterra gets a salary of $1.95 million
put a chicken in the oven
where they have the most space they’ve had in their entire life
get on the bus to go to work
thank the driver think they look tired
                               ‘the world is at least fifty percent terrible’ (p3)
He uses quite a few weight images throughout the selections here, many in ‘brutalism’ (p19):
… every year we pour

    enough concrete to/ cover every maunga and fill in every
awa in the north island/ and that after water it is the most used

substance in the world …
Throughout the heaviness and the awareness, there is a huge and (in the poems) endless reservoir of vitality that Feeney is speaking out of; I am glad to see that someone who looks at the world like this is a schoolteacher.

     Ria Masae makes it clear from the very beginning who she is talking about and who she is talking to: her voice is powerful, describing people but certainly not expecting anyone else to enter into the conversation. ‘Saipipi, Savai‘i, Samoa’ – the first poem in ‘What She Sees from Atop the Mauga’ – starts out:
Nana Se’ela asked me once
      ‘E ke mana’o fai sau malu?’
  i turned to her, my makas widening in shock
      i gazed down at the jellyfish, seagulls and crosses
  under the stars
  tattooed around her thighs
  in my Samoglish I questioned
  ‘me? Aa ā Mum?’ …
and answers the question in a way that makes sense to the two of them, with no concession to the reader, who is either already in the in-group or is simply an outsider.
  i tilted my face up to the stars
  that were more familiar to me
  than the ones on Samoan thighs,
  without turning to her, i answered
  ‘Leai fa‘afetai, Nana.’             (p29)
The streets of Auckland, evil lodestar of the Pacific, are crowded with the downcast and the damned. The powerful ‘SkyCity Scraps’ (pp40-41) speaks of one ‘nomad, a no-man’ who thought he was ‘still in cruise control’ – but now, he
   has become one of the nameless.
He is but one rusted nail amongst thousands
on that discarded cross.

The setting sun colours the road ahead
a deep shade of sorrow.

Claudia Jardine speaks in a variety of voices. ‘The Flower Crown of Sulpicia’ is a retranslation of six short Latin poems by a first-century BCE poet who has recently been rediscovered. Each poem comes from a different mood: kick-ass triumph, petulant adolescent, “be nice to me, I’m suffering”, or regret. Jardine then assigns a contemporary voice to each:
Love has come such Love such Love
      more shame in stashing blushes
  than being famous for getting naked

  Venus delivered
  put in my pocket
  Love
                        ‘Sulpicia 3.13 – Etta James’ (p63)
Or on an unwelcome birthday jaunt:
hateful natality
is here

why was I even born?

to be spent in abusive country
trite in its lack of Cerinthus
(“Sulpicia 3.14 – Stevie Nicks’)
Jardine’s ear for sounds and her vivid imagery are evident throughout the selections. ‘High Functioning’ (p71):
I’m being eaten by my feelings
face down in the mud
like a farmer with a brain aneurysm
surrounded by piglets

face down in the mud
nudged and kneaded
hither!  the scoffing piglets
me?

fat pheasant flushed from the thicket
nudged and kneaded
tossed mid-air between kārearea
flat present smushed under a winglet ...
Her Orpheus poem, ‘Eurydice & the No/ or How Eurydice Died of Negligence and a Phonetic Misunderstanding’ (pp84-86) shows us ‘Something to know about the Grecian language,/ and the fauna of the mainland’, a lot more action and interest than the bare bones of the myth generally show us.
So there’s Auckland University Poets 7 – and what’s not to like? Roll on, volume 8...

Review by Mary Cresswell

Title: AUP New Poets 7
Author: Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae, Claudia Jardine. Anna Jackson 9ed)
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 978 1 86940 921 0
RRP: $29.99
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Perky chook in fun book

23/9/2020

Omeletta Hen
by Janelle Wilkey
Illustrated by Deborah Hinde

Omeletta is a beautiful hen. There’s no doubting that, what with her bright and full plumage, and brilliant crest. And she does everything a regular hen should, except she will not lay her eggs in the henhouse.
Her little friend, Nelson, finds her eggs everywhere; the garden, the bath, and even in a shoe. Just imagine that!
So finally, Nelson lays down the law. Eggs must be laid in the henhouse. Not on the path, not in his bed, and definitely not on his head. The laying of an egg on Nelson’s head is simply the last straw.
So back off to the henhouse trudges Nelson, with Omeletta firmly grasped in his arms.
“Omeletta, you silly hen, from now on, you will stay in the henhouse!” says Nelson.
He busily restocks the nesting box with fresh straw, saying, “Nest is best.”
But Omeletta is not happy with this new arrangement. She fluffs her feathers, fumes, and plain sulks.
When Nelson checks the nesting box the next morning, not one egg does he find.
The following morning he checks the nesting box too. Not a single egg.
And so it goes. The nesting box remains empty, empty, empty.
It seems that as intent Nelson is on getting Omeletta to lay her eggs in the henhouse, she’s just as intent on not.
This perky chook is full of character and dogged determination. And her expressions are delightful.
The bright and sharp artwork enhances the simple storyline, making this a fun book to read with children or for them to read alone.
This is a book that is beautifully presented. And well deserving of The Joy Cowley Award.

Review by Susan Tarr

Title: Omeletta Hen
Author: Janelle Wilkey
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781775436393
RRP: $18.99
Available: bookshops

Family history deserves to be read

16/9/2020

The Ninth Candle
by Jenny Harrison

‘The Ninth candle is called the helper candle, used to light all the other candles, ‘Anushka whispered, ‘It is the most important candle we have.’
     A Jewish woman explaining to Chiune Sugihara the importance of the Festival of Lights of Hanukkah, explaining to a guest not of her faith but a man who saved thousands of Jews and refugees from Hitler’s Polish invasion.
    ‘The Ninth Candle’ is a true story. It follows one family, that of Peter Baruch, who watched as Hitler’s war machine engulfed their beloved Poland. From believing it would never happen to the ultimate tragedy that it did, this one family’s experiences were mirrored thousands, millions of times over. I have read and researched World War Two, and Poland’s story always tore at my heart. A country between power-houses who tore it to pieces and in doing so, murdered, pillaged, displaced and destroyed family after family.
    The rise of fascism in the world today gives one pause. Books like this need to be read and studied because while we’re busy denying it could ever be so bad, it can be. History has proven it. Unstable leaders with a power complex create chaos and destruction. They make a race or a people the enemy and while we’re pretending genocidal extermination couldn’t happen again, it does.
    For me the stand-out story in ‘The Ninth Candle’ belonged to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Polish refugees.
    Josef stammered. ‘You are rescuing us from certain death. But I don’t understand. This could cost you your life so why are you rescuing Jews in this way?’
Sugihara looked shocked. ‘I’m not rescuing Jews,’ he said. ‘No, no. Not only Jews, Josef. Anyone who needs my help will get it. My dear Josef, don’t you see  It’s not just Jews who matter. It’s everyone. Everyone matters.’
   ‘…on July 9th 1940 Chiune Sugihara took a decision that would change the course of his life and the lives of thousands of others. He opened the door of the Consulate and beckoned the first ten of the long line of refugees to enter the office.’
    It took courage and integrity. Sugihara had a Gestapo agent in his office yet he never faltered. He was a remarkable man in extraordinary times.
    Jenny’s blurb tells us how each family member acted out of love, Marysia for her son, Josef for his fiancée and Adam for the children under his paediatric care. I would add that Chiune Sugihara did, too.
    Thank you, Jenny, for putting this family’s history into the world. I hope it is read as much as it deserves to be.

Review by TJ Ramsay

Title: The Ninth Candle
Author: Jenny Harrison
Publisher: Lamplighter Press
ISBN: 9798623965950
RRP: $32.50
Available: Amazon, Kindle, author's website (www.jennyharrison-author.com)

Immigration and a return to one’s roots

9/9/2020

The Telling Time
by P J McKay

The Telling Time’s beautiful cover is in sharp contrast to the book’s contents – two grim and troubling stories woven together over time by family ties and family secrets. This is a story of naivety and trickery; trust and abuse; immigration and culture shock.
The Telling Time is the story of Gabrijela, a young woman from 1950s Yugoslavia, and her New Zealand-born daughter Luisa as she sets out to visit her mother’s homeland, now Croatia, in 1989.
Pip McKay’s writing is so vivid that right from page 1 when Gabrijela is describing her detested job, the clinging smell of the sardines wafts off the page and it’s easy to imagine the bleakness of the canning factory and Gabrijela’s determination to get away from it. Little does she imagine that her ‘escape’ won’t simply take her from the family home on Korčula Island a short ferry ride to the ‘mainland’. Instead, in answer to a plea from an immigrant friend of her father’s she is sent to Auckland to work as a housekeeper.
The descriptions of that Auckland, when women drank Pimms and ginger ale, young people danced to ‘Blue Suede Shoes, and an electric washing machine was a novelty, are well researched and sensitively narrated. They will take readers back to a time when we talked scornfully about Dally plonk but really knew very little about the hard-working group of immigrants who made it. For Gabrijela, homesick and impossibly far from home, a blue aerogramme in the letter box, two weeks old when it arrives, is the highlight of her day. Gradually though she makes friends and improves her English.
McKay paints an engaging picture of immigrant life in Auckland, revolving around the Dalmatian community, their social gatherings and family intrigues. Narrated by Gabrijela, this part of the book is often quite amusing, but Gabrijela’s secret, the real reason she left home, lurks brooding in the background: is it something really dark or something that in the light of 2020 New Zealand we would just shrug off?
Thirty years after Gabrijela came to New Zealand her daughter decides to take off to explore Europe and in particular to seek out her mother’s family on Korčula. Travelling through Macedonia and into Croatia brings cultural shock to Luisa much as her mother experienced on arriving in Auckland. But for Luisa it’s like travelling back in time to less sophisticated surroundings. Unbeknown to Gabrijela, Luisa hopes to get to the bottom of her mother’s youth – to find out what that unspoken taboo thing is that has always been in the background.
Although there are times of immense sadness and brutality in The Telling Time, it also celebrates love and hope; self-discovery, forgiveness and moving forward. McKay’s prose lifts the people off the page so that they become lifelike and the book is a joy to read.

Review by Carolyn McKenzie

Title: The Telling Time
Author: P J McKay
Publisher: Polako Press
ISBN: 9780473520113
RRP: $34.95
Available: bookshops

Thoroughly good read

2/9/2020

For Reasons of Their Own
by Chris Stuart

This book will appeal to readers over the age of eighteen who like a crime novel with an unusual slant.
It is well written, easy to read and follow. The descriptions of the Melbourne districts are very good indeed. The characters come to life and you quickly feel that you know and sympathise with the dedicated Detective Inspector Robbie Gray, whose recent internal investigation is tarnished when evidence goes missing, leaving Robbie feeling aggrieved and frustrated.
Robbie is sent to observe, undercover, at an International Disaster Conference, a role she feels is below her capabilities, but doubt has been cast on her professional judgement.
However, she is called to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a body in a rural swamp, north of Melbourne. Robbie is given a small team that includes Mac, an Aboriginal Police Officer, who has also suffered injustice in a disciplinary matter, which Robbie can empathise with.
Both Robbie and Mac have an admirable desire to search for the truth in what is, to them, clearly a murder. But when the nationality of the murder victim is revealed the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) take over the case, instructing Robbie and her team to “back off”. However, Robbie is convinced the ASIO are on the wrong tack and wants to continue her investigation, suspecting corruption and political manipulation.
Set in Melbourne during a stifling heat wave, drought and raging bush fires, D.I Gray has to convince her superior to allow her team to continue to investigate this murder with no apparent motive and, as Robbie suspects, the ASIO wrongly focusing on the murder as a terrorist orientated incident in order to reshape the Australian security policy.
Robbie and her team are challenged by heartbreaking humanitarian issues with the eventual outcome making the reader think deeply about the social injustices that are still happening in our world.
A thoroughly good read, making me want to look forward to another D.I. Robbie Gray story.

Review by Fran Hartley

Title: For Reasons of Their Own
Author: Chris Stuart
Publisher: Original Sin Press
ISBN: 9780473514921
RRP: $35
Available: bookshops

Skilled story telling

26/8/2020

Mellons Bay
by Suzanne Singleton

A good book reveals itself in the first paragraph. Mellons Bay did exactly that. I needed to know more about the people, whose stories it told. New Zealand’s early settlement history came alive for me.
Knowing it was about people who built a township anyone can visit today made the story all the more interesting. It reminded me that Auckland started as muddy tracks, horse-drawn carts, and simple buildings. It was built on hard work. Author Suzanne Singleton put people on that landscape and drew us into their lives.
Those early settlers had no choice but to succeed. There were no government hand-outs if they failed. And going back meant returning to famine and civil war.
The novel opens with a statement about life being a journey. Mellons Bay is all about journeys on many levels – physical, spiritual, and emotional.
The story starts with William Mellon. He is a surveyor for the military in Ireland. He marries Harriet and they sail for New Zealand with their five children.
They were author Suzanne Singleton’s great-great-grandparents and I was filled with admiration for them. She tells their story in a compelling, compassionate way, focusing on the main events of their lives and avoiding getting bogged down in detail. We share their heartaches and triumphs.
The personalities of both Harriet and William bring this story alive and I found myself absorbed in a topic that is often crushed by a mediocre recital of facts and figures.
The Mellon family’s life was built on journeys, the longest of which was the four-month sea voyage from England. This voyage was full of hope. They left behind poverty and struggle to build a better life in New Zealand. However, who we are comes with us wherever we go. This was true of William and Harriet. William was the solid army surveyor and Harriet was the entertainer with a beautiful voice. William was literate and Harriet illiterate. Two divides they could not cross.
They settled in Howick. The town that is there today was built by people like them.
While having to recreate the characters from sparse data Suzanne Singleton filled in the gaps using her imagination. This was especially the case for Harriet, of whom there are few records. In filling the gaps with what she imagined happened puts flesh on their bones, adds humanity to the story and separates the story from a mere account of an early settler and his family. They were people of their time shaped by the political and social environment.
There is no question life was tough.
How they make it work is the journey we take under Suzanne Singleton’s skilled story telling makes for a very pleasant journey indeed.

Review by Suraya Dewing
Founder, Stylefit

Title: Mellons Bay
Author: Suzanne Singleton
Publisher: Wily Publications Ltd
ISBN: 978-1-927167-41-0
RRP: $34.95
Available: Paperback. Available in bookshops. Ebook coming

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