Contents

1. Andrew Leach

Problems in the Historiography of New Zealand Architecture

2. Eva Rueschmann

Coming of Age at the Edge of the World: Female Adolescents in Vigil (1984), Rain (2001), Whale Rider (2002), and In My Father’s Den (2004)

3. Angela McCarthy

Political Irishness and Cultural Scottishness in New Zealand Film and

Documentary

4. Robert Crawford

Changing the ‘OE’: Kiwis, Aussies, and Saffas in Contemporary London

5. Michael Goldsmith

Are Blondes a Racial Category? Exploring 'Connexions'

6. Tom Ryan

On Becoming a Pacific Nation: Polyphonic Reflexions

7. Christina Matteotti

Archival Translations and Refigurations in Contemporary Maori Literature

8. Heidi van den Heuvel-Disler

By Ear, or Word of Mouth? Why Some Maori Literature Is Not Modernist

Reports

9. Claudia Bell

Hands on New Zealand at World Expo Japan, 2005

10. Hilary Bracefield

Happy Birthday, New Zealand: Celebrations of Dominion Day 1907 and

2007

11. Gerri Kimber

NZSA Conference Report. ‘The State of the Nation: New Zealand’s

Centenary as a Dominion’, London, June 2007

Poems

12. Elizabeth Smither

How music is made for Chris

13. Michele Leggott

poppies and plane trees

14. C.K. Stead

13 Ways of Looking at a Waltz by Diabelli

15. Murray Edmond

The Restoration

16. Murray Edmond

Leaping Malinowski

remembering Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

17. Murray Edmond

Interrupted Showing

18. Murray Edmond

Cut

19. Fiona Kidman

My Princess Grace hat

20. Fiona Kidman

Renoir's Cat

(at Cagnes-sur-Mer)

21. Fiona Kidman

In Dublin

(for my father, need it be said)

22. Fiona Kidman

Where your left hand rests

23. Lorae Parry

Promise of Summer

24. Lorae Parry

Capricious Repast

25. Emma Neale

Wrought

26. Emma Neale

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Wolf

After Reading 'On Film' by Martin Edmond

27. Emma Neale

Loops

28. Emma Neale

Fall

29. Emma Neale

The Problem Page

30. Emma Neale

Don't Stay Up Too Late, Love

for a tribute to Ruth Dallas

31. Ian Wedde

Torn

32. Ian Wedde

Flowers falling

33. Ian Wedde

The enchanting aroma of cut flowers

34. Ian Wedde

The sheen

35. Jan Kemp

Roses

for Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt

Leipzig 12.03.1908 - New Delhi 27.02.1992

36. Jan Kemp

Chateau life

37. Jan Kemp

Heavenly Lavigny

38. Jan Kemp

crossing fields

39. Jan Kemp

Lac Leman lacks nothing

40. Jan Kemp

La petite dame au crochet et son petit chien

41. Jan Kemp

Swiss apple

42. Dieter Riemenschneider

on leaving Chatigny

Short Stories

43. Barbara Else

Fear of Cake

44. Beryl Fletcher

Flying a Kite at Kitekite

45. Peter Wells

Closer

Reviews

Contributors