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