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Contents: Volume 2(3)

  Editorial
New Writing from New Zealand
LAURIS EDMOND The Importance of Going Sailing in an Equinoxial Gale Re-located
BARBARA ANDERSON from The Sharemilker's Wife
ELIZABETH SMITHER Letter From New Zealand
BILL MANHIRE The Next Thousand
ANDREW JOHNSTON As, When, While
SAM SAMPSON The American President
ANDREW JOHNSTON on Bill Manhire, Chris Orsman, Gregory O'Brien, Vincent O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Smither
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN Hearing Aunt M. Out
The Solipsist on the Veranda
The Reader Objects
GREGORY O'BRIEN Ode to Te Whiti-o-Rongomai
MARK WILKINS 330, 343
DINAH HAWKINS The Story of Fire
HARRY RICKETTS Dissolution
DIANA BRIDGE The Drums
ELIZABETH SMITHER Girl and Wolfhound at Glebe
JAMES NORCLIFFE the accordion band at the eventide home
DAVID KENNEDY on C. K. Stead
CHARLOTTE GRINSHAW from You
Poetry Competition Winners
VONA GROARKE Or to Come
JEFF PHELPS River Passage
NORMAN BISSETT Angel of Morningside
The Disguise
BRIAN HOWELL The Ichimatsu Doll
CHARLES BOYLE The Picnic
The Disguise
The War Office
Hotel Rosa
CHRIS MILLER on Attila József, György Petri, Marina Tsvetaeva, Aleksandar Ristovic and Rainer Maria Rilke
ROD MENGHAM on Paola Capriola
STEPHANIE MERRITT on Michael Ondaatje
ELEANOR PORTER Mrs Ha
ROBERT MACFARLANE on Don Paterson, Charles Tomlinson, Pauline Stainer, Herbert Lomas and Tom Paulin
RODNEY PYBUS on Robert Adamson, Les Murray, Peter Minter and Kevin Hart
SEAN O'BRIEN The Railway Sleeper
TONY FLYNN Mother Tongue
GLYNN MAXWELL Strictures
  Stand Briefs
  Notes on Contributors
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Selected Contributors:

Barbara Anderson was a science teacher and medical technologist for many years before returning to university to read English. Since then she ahs published sex novels and two volumes of short stories. She lives in Wellington with her husband.

Lauris Edmond was one of New Zealand’s most distinguished poets. She died in January.

Charlotte Grimshaw was born in New Zealand and currently lives in Auckland. Her first novel Provocation (Abacus) was published in 1999 and her second novel Guilt (Abacus) followed earlier this year.

Bill Manhire’s most recent books are a volume of poems, What to Call Your Child (Auckland, 1999), and a collection of essays and interviews, Doubtful Sounds (Wellington, 2000). He is director of the creative writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington.

Vincent O’Sullivan was widely published as poet, fiction writer and playwright. He has edited several anthologies of New Zealand writing, and The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield for the Clarendon Press. He is director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University, Wellington.

Elizabeth Smither is a poet and fiction writer. Her work includes a collection of short stories, The Mathematics of Jane Austen, and more recently a new collection of poems, The Lark Quartet (Auckland University Press).

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