Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Murray Edmond, Caxton Press, 1988 Scott Hamilton Talks with Murray Edmond about His Eighties Masterpiece Town and Country Players perform Games We Play, a piece about the turmoil around the 1981 Springbok Tour of Aotearoa. From left to right: Murray Edmond, Anne Hunt, Ralph Johnson, and Janet Elepans. For five and a half decades Murray Edmonds has been one of Aotearoa's most innovative and interesting writers. This is part of an interview I did with the man during his recent

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

pip adam, Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2026 Reviewed by Scott Hamilton 'No one else in New Zealand is writing like this' says Philip Matthews in an admiring review of pip adam's new novel kluge for Newsroom. Like the creators of modernism a century ago, pip adam is trying to find new ways of writing suitable for a new century. And like them she is addressing the crises of her century. The academic industry that has grown up around modernist masterworks like TS Eliot's Th

Reviewed by Paul Janman Photo by Paul Janman RS: Paul Janman is a film maker, photographer, and writer. His Tongan Ark, which celebrates the work and thought of Futa Helu, has been called one of the greatest films to come out of Oceania. This essay draws on his pathbreaking work as a psychogeographer of Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa. You walk from the nearby Onehunga Mall to Princes Street on a bright autumn afternoon and the gallery has gone black. Not painted black: built bl