Calgary Public Library

Auckland, the city in literature

eng

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non fiction

Auckland

dictionaries

827208662

Our City, v. 1

the city in literature

In his introduction to this anthology, Witi Ihimaera describes Auckland, Tamaki makau rau, as the place desired by many. The variety in this absorbing collection of short stories, poetry and extracts from novels and memoirs shows that while Auckland may not always have been desirable, it has certainly fascinated generations of very different writers, who have explored almost every part of this far-flung city. C.K. Stead and Maurice Gee, for example, go west, Tina Shaw and Diane Brown visit the city centre, Paula Morris and Peter Wells haunt the suburbs, while Robert Sullivan and Albert Wendt h

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction : Auckland: The place desired by many; The Waitemata waters; Sonnet 3; Conversation at Karekare; Tamaki of a hundred lovers; A view across the city; From the summit of Mount Eden; Morning Maungawhau; Auckland, 1900; Sunday at Te Parenga; Frank Sargeson's place; Pity about the gulls; View across the harbour; A family at Devonport beach; Container terminal; At Foodtown with the dog; A Grey Lynn story; Coffee and cheese with Gudrun and Ursula; Way out west; Henderson; Going west; Lone Kauri Road; Bred in South AucklandThe biggest Polynesian city in the worldGrowing up at Point Chevalier; Going home; Onehunga Bay; At the Auckland Museum; A Parnell encounter; Bastion Point; Orakei; Walking Tamaki Drive; Ode to Auckland; Jogging the Viaduct Basin; Parnell and the Auckland Art Gallery; Speeding down Queen Street; Outside Smith & Caughey's; Who is reading poetry in 2021?; Karangahape Road; A night at the Balcony; Message from Mangere; Shopping at St Luke's; The bird; Autumn and Waiheke; An eyeland adventure with old winds; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Copyright