Out of town
Subtitle: writing from the New Zealand countryside
By: edited by John Gordon.
Contributors: Gordon, John, 1944-
Publisher: Shoal Bay Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Christchurch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Country life -- Literary collections; New Zealand -- Literary collections; Landscape -- Literary collections; Country life -- New Zealand; New Zealand literature
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: New Zealand's rural heritage has produced a rich store of evocative, entertaining and memorable writing. Out of Town is a delightful personal selection of the wealth of material that has been written from and about the countryside. In poetry and prose, it provides a collective memoir of those who settled the land, struggled to farm it and finally prospered. Readers with find the work of well-known authors - Dan Davin, O.E. Middleton, Ruth Dallas, Frank S. Anthony, Jim Henderson, Roderick Finlayson, Amelia Batistich, James K. Baxter, Witi Ihimaera - alongside the contributions of lesser known writers whose work may be unfamiliar tomany of today's readers: Delphin Adsett, Alice F. Webb, J.W. Barns-Graham, T. Peter Hammond, Frances Blunt, Lester Masters, Bruce Stronach.