Auckland
Subtitle: the city in literature
By: edited by Witi Ihimaera.
Contributors: Ihimaera, Witi Tame, 1944-
Series: Our city
Publisher: Exisle Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: New Zealand literature.; Auckland (N.Z.) -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: This is an anthology of writings on the city of Auckland. The selection is mostly fictional, but extracts from writer's memoirs and poems are also included. This title includes work by Maurice Gee, Paula Morris, C.K. Stead, Diane Brown, Albert Wendt, Tina Shaw and others.
Notes: Short stories, poems and extracts from novels and writers' memoirs about, set in or inspired by Auckland.
Table of contents: title: The Waitemata waters / John Logan Campbell; title: Sonnet 3 / C.K. Stead; title: Conversation at Karekare / Paula Morris; title: Tamaki of a hundred lovers / Merimeri Penfold; title: A view across the city / Maurice Gee; title: From the summit of Mount Eden / Denis Baker; title: Morning Maungawhau / Albert Wendt; title: Auckland, 1900 / Maurice Shadbolt; title: Sunday at Te Parenga / Bruce Mason; title: Frank Sargeson's place / Janet Frame; title: Pity about the gulls / Kevin Ireland; title: View across the harbour / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: A family at Devonport Beach / Witi Ihimaera; title: Container terminal / Bob Orr; title: At foodtown with the dog / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: A Grey Lynn story / John Pule; title: Coffee and cheese with Gudrun and Ursula / Anna Jackson; title: Way out west / Maurice Gee; title: Henderson / C.K. Stead; title: Going west / Maurice Gee; title: Lone Kauri Road / Allen Curnow; title: Bred in South Auckland / Glenn Colquhoun; title: The biggest polynesian city in the world / John Pule; title: Growing up at Point Chevalier / Peter Wells; title: Going home / Stephanie Johnson; title: Onehunga Bay / Robert Sullivan; title: At the Auckland Museum / Denis Baker; title: A Parnell encounter / Frank Sargeson; title: Bastion Point / Sarah Quigley; title: Orakei / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: Walking Tamaki Drive / Denis Baker; title: Ode to Auckland / James K. Baxter; title: Jogging the viaduct basin / Witi Ihimaera; title: Parnell and the Auckland Art Gallery / Diane Brown; title: Speeding down Queen Street / Tina Shaw; title: Outside Smith & Caughey's / Tina Shaw; title: Who is reading poetry in 2021? / Anna Jackson; title: Karangahape Road / Paula Morris; title: A night at the balcony / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: Message from Mangere / Robert Sullivan; title: Shopping at St Luke's / Paula Morris; title: The bird / Albert Wendt; title: Autumn and Waiheke / Steve Braunias; title: An eyeland adventure with old wings / Sistar S'pacific.