Auckland : the city in literature / edited by Witi Ihimaera.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Auckland : Exisle Pub., 2003.
Description
236 pages ; 18 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Related name
Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- [Browse]
Series
Our city. [More in this series]
Notes
Short stories, poems and extracts from novels and writers' memoirs about, set in or inspired by Auckland.
Contents
  • The Waitemata waters / John Logan Campbell
  • Sonnet 3 / C.K. Stead
  • Conversation at Karekare / Paula Morris
  • Tamaki of a hundred lovers / Merimeri Penfold
  • A view across the city / Maurice Gee
  • From the summit of Mount Eden / Denis Baker
  • Morning Maungawhau / Albert Wendt
  • Auckland, 1900 / Maurice Shadbolt
  • Sunday at Te Parenga / Bruce Mason
  • Frank Sargeson's place / Janet Frame
  • Pity about the gulls / Kevin Ireland
  • View across the harbour / Charlotte Grimshaw
  • A family at Devonport Beach / Witi Ihimaera
  • Container terminal / Bob Orr
  • At foodtown with the dog / Charlotte Grimshaw
  • A Grey Lynn story / John Pule
  • Coffee and cheese with Gudrun and Ursula / Anna Jackson
  • Way out west / Maurice Gee
  • Henderson / C.K. Stead
  • Going west / Maurice Gee
  • Lone Kauri Road / Allen Curnow
  • Bred in South Auckland / Glenn Colquhoun
  • The biggest polynesian city in the world / John Pule
  • Growing up at Point Chevalier / Peter Wells
  • Going home / Stephanie Johnson
  • Onehunga Bay / Robert Sullivan
  • At the Auckland Museum / Denis Baker
  • A Parnell encounter / Frank Sargeson
  • Bastion Point / Sarah Quigley
  • Orakei / Charlotte Grimshaw
  • Walking Tamaki Drive / Denis Baker
  • Ode to Auckland / James K. Baxter
  • Jogging the viaduct basin / Witi Ihimaera
  • Parnell and the Auckland Art Gallery / Diane Brown
  • Speeding down Queen Street / Tina Shaw
  • Outside Smith & Caughey's / Tina Shaw
  • Who is reading poetry in 2021? / Anna Jackson
  • Karangahape Road / Paula Morris
  • A night at the balcony / Charlotte Grimshaw
  • Message from Mangere / Robert Sullivan
  • Shopping at St Luke's / Paula Morris
  • The bird / Albert Wendt
  • Autumn and Waiheke / Steve Braunias
  • An eyeland adventure with old wings / Sistar S'pacific.
ISBN
0908988362
LCCN
2003501959
OCLC
54544120
RCP
C - O
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