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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

December 29-January 4 2008 Vol 211 No 3529

Arts & Music

  • Music Then they took Berlin by Sandra Dempster
    It’s been the biggest year yet for Wellington band the Black Seeds, who kick off a New Year’s tour in Taupo this week. Before Taupo, there was Berlin.

  • Poetry Aphorism by Koenraad Kuiper
    (for Frank Koenegracht) From your contemporary décolletage I had not thought to dislodge a crashed helicopter...

  • Concerts Nelson summer high by Rod Biss
    So much to choose from.

  • Film Watched and watchers by Helene Wong
    The best films of 2007.

  • Theatre The year of rats & penguins
    This year’s stage beauties.

  • Dance Tutus & Tame by Francesca Horsley
    Let’s hear it for inky tarns.


Books

  • Books Sober reflections by Nick Bollinger
    ERIC CLAPTON: THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY (Century, $39.99).

  • Books Dog’s truth by David Larsen
    Footrot Flats: The Dog Strips, by Murray Ball (Hodder Moa, $99).

  • Books Write like the wind by Denis Welch
    Recent local books.