Christchurch
Subtitle: the city in literature
By: edited by Anna Rogers.
Contributors: Rogers, Anna.
Series: Our city
Publisher: Exisle Pub.; Exisle Pub
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: New Zealand literature.; Christchurch (N.Z.) -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Short stories, poems and extracts from novels and writers' memoirs about, set in or inspired by Christchurch.
Table of contents: title: Lights and shadows of colonial life / Sarah Amelia Courage; title: When bawds and whores do churches build / Stevan Eldred-Grigg; title: Black beech and honeydew / Ngaio Marsh; title: Gale SSW / Mary Ursula Bethell; title: The lowdown on Christchurch / Denis Glover; title: Christchurch - escape to a far country / John Bluck; title: The soul of the city / Joe Bennett; title: Garden plotters put on a good front / A.K. Grant; title: Old faithful / Kate Flannery; title: Our dedut in the city beautiful / Stevan Eldred-Grigg; title: On entering Lyttelton Harbour / James K. Baxter; title: Ships in the night / Frankie McMillan; title: A gun in my hand / Gordon Slatter; title: Llama heaven / Owen Marshall; title: The young have secrets / James Courage; title: Heads or tails / Fiona Farrell; title: A view from a house in rue de Balguerie, Akaroa / Hone Tuwhare; title: Burial / Jennifer Maxwell; title: Dumb show / Mike Johnson; title: Cabernet Sauvignon with my brother / Owen Marshall; title: Word for word / Robin Muir; title: The city from the hills / Arnold Wall.