It looks better on you
Subtitle: New Zealand women writers on their friendships
By: edited by Jane Westaway and Tessa Copland.
Contributors: Westaway, Jane.; Copland, Tessa.
Publisher: Longacre Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Women authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.; Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.; Female friendship -- New Zealand.; Women and literature -- New Zealand.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The editors of this book knew what they didn't want when they called on New Zealand writers to to pay tribute to women's friendships: not sentiment, not sociology, not celebrity chat. The result is a gritty and touching look at the durable, flexible and sustaining relationship that is friendship.
Table of contents: title: Sea change / Linley Boniface; title: Just being there / Sue McCauley & Lora Mountjoy; title: My dear diarist / Rhonda Pritchard; title: In deed / Emma Neale; title: Ten / Donna Tusiata Avia; title: Sapientia et risio / Tessa Copland; title: Reel / Kate Duignan; title: A song for Lizzie / Marilyn Duckworth; title: The expanding friend / Mary Macpherson; title: Shifting / Judith White; title: Dear Chi-Ying/Love, Sarah / Sarah Tan & Choong Chi-Ying; title: A hymn to friendship / Fleur Adcock; title: Friends and phantoms / Christine Johnston; title: Falling for the exotic / Margie Thomson; title: The other ones / Jane Westaway; title: Best friends / Jan Kemp; title: Oxymorons / Cheryl Pearl Sucher; title: Girls-only outings / Linda Burgess; title: Inside the stone / Jenny Robin Jones; title: On using people you love in your poems / Vivienne Plumb; title: The third person / Fiona Kidman; title: Where have all the poems gone? / Diane Brown; title: A vision at Warrington Beach / Bernadette Hall; title: A fair bit of biff / Kate De Goldi; title: Starsky and Hutch / Paula Boock & Lynne Cardy; title: Dearest Rosamunde / Elizabeth Smither; title: Down we go / Roma Pōtiki; title: Jan / Joan Rosier-Jones; title: Evocations / Cilla McQueen; title: To Perth by rail / Bub Bridger; title: The long way home / Jane Westaway.