

Book of the Week: The Bond of Time
John Pule, Canterbury University Press, 2014 Reviewed by Scott Hamilton The Bond of Time was written in 1983 and published in a small edition in 1985. It was republished in 1998 by the Pacific Writing Forum in Fiji, then appeared in a new edition with an introduction by Jeffrey Papamoa Holman in 2024. This is the cover of the 2024 edition; it features Pule's painting The Great World (to Ha). RS: Massey University Press has just published This Must Be the Island: Liga Hanai e

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No Island is Doomed
Scott Hamilton Hilinga Mea'a o te Maramataka exhibition poster, 14 Aug–19 Sept 2026, Fresh Gallery, Ōtara. At Fresh Gallery in Ōtara the Seleka Club has been holding an important exhibition. This year the Selekarians have been giving art classes to children in the new village of Atata Si'i, whose people had to flee the low island of 'Atatā after it was devastated by the eruption and tsunami of 2022. Visitors to Fresh Gallery can see the work that the children made, as well as

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