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The Dominion Post, February 21, 2004
On a Saturday morning Kim Hill is in her element (“They say I have a good face for radio”) doing live interviews on her weekend show. Lindsay Rabbitt drops in to capture the mood on and off air.
It’s 9am on St Valentine’s Day at Radio NZ House and Kim Hill’s producer Chris Bourke and studio operator and “dog handler” Andrew Dalziel are calmly going about their business.… More,,,
The Dominion Post, January 17, 2004
Poor sales, even death, couldn’t stop Geoff Cochrane.
“When I go to church nowadays, I find it disappointing,” Geoff Cochrane says while we eat lunch at his mother Patricia’s house in Levin. “You never went as an adult,” Patricia retorts. “But I did want to join a monastery .… More,,,
Listener, October 18, 2003
As the Rugby World Cup kicks off, former All Black and current All Black selector Mark Shaw explains the new team’s philosophy and what it takes to impress him.
“I got dropped for 1987 World Cup,” says Mark Shaw. “Like Oliver, Randall, Cullen and Merhtens: exactly the same thing happened to me.… More,,,
Listener – July 20, 2003
Ten years after writing the screenplay for Once Were Warriors, Riwia Brown sticks close to Jesus.
A good 400 worshippers swarm to the altar of Paraparaumu church the Centre as American pastor Steve Gray chants, “Do you want it now?” What they want is to be anointed by God through the hands of the charismatic preacher.… More,,,
Listener – February 15, 2003
Two “southern women” poets: Cilla McQueen from Bluff and Kay McKenzie Cooke from Dunedin – their mug shots on the back of their books smile at me: McQueen, Celtic dark, quarter-mooned mouthed; McKenzie Cooke, blonde, strong-jawed and open-faced.
“Soundings” is McQueen’s ninth book (she received the New Zealand Award for Poetry in 1983, 1989 and 1991) and “Feeding the Dogs” is McKenzie Cooke’s first.… More,,,
Listener – August 3, 2002
William Carlos Williams took issue with Ezra Pound for saying, in effect, that to write serious poetry one had to have digested the art’s various ancient roots. Williams, a GP, contradicted Pound’s high-minded notion, saying his poetry was more concerned with the language rhythms of Polish mothers in his hometown Rutherford, New Jersey.… More,,,
Listener, July 6, 2002
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your young men shall see visions; your old men will dream dreams.”
This prophetic verse greeted me when I tuned into the Rhema Network. “Joel, Acts 1:17,” the announcer informs. It had me running for my Bible. What about those who didn’t make the dream team?… More,,,
Listener, June 8, 2002
“Elizabeth Bennett is the most shag-able of Jane Austen’s heroines.”
This evocative statement was blurted by media chic poet Kate Camp, currently writer-in-residence at Waikato University, on Kim Hill’s Saturday morning show on National Radio. She was reviewing Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, which to her was “like eating a box of chocolates .… More,,,
Listener – May 25, 2002
Whether they’re worth reading is neither here nor there, but there is good money to be flogging rare, collectable New Zealand books. Peter Trewern, manager of Otaki-based Bethunes Rare Books, the country’s largest book auctioneers, knows a guy who recently bought a hand-coloured botanical book at auction.… More,,,
Listener – April 13, 2002
The hard graft of Manawatu sculptor Paul Dibble.
Bronze sculptor Paul Dibble is a big gentle man with hunched shoulders and a complexion like a stretch of unsealed country road. His large colonial Palmerston North home is chocker with New Zealand contemporary and folk art – “You haven’t got a nation unless you’ve got folk art” – while his huge foundry/workshop is sited in an industrial precinct across town.… More,,,