Notes

Contents: Katherine Mansfield - A dill pickle - Bliss - The garden party Frank Sargeson - A great day - A piece of yellow soap - The hole that Jack dug - An affair of the heart Maurice Duggan - The departure - Along Rideout Road that summer Janet Frame - An incident in mid-ocean - A sense of proportion - How can I get in touch with Persia? - The bath Maurice Shadbolt - River, girl and onion C.K. Stead - Class, race, gender: A post-colonial yarn Russell Haley - Dutch Mosquito Vincent O'Sullivan - Putting Bob down Patricia Grace - Journey - The lamp - It used to be green once Fiona Kidman - Dry rot Owen Marshall - The paper parcel - A view of our country - The rule of Jenny Pen Sue McCauley - Mia Culpa Elizabeth Smither - The mathematics of Jane Austen Michael Morrissey - What's in a name? - Beethoven's ears - Hitler's french letter Sheridan Keith - Pleasuring Mr White - Dancing in the dark Witi Ihimaera - The house with sugarbag windows - The kids downstairs Shonagh Koea - The dancing master Peter Wells - Perrin and fallen angel - A casual kind of incest John Cranna - Archaeology - Visitors LloydJones - This place we call home - Me, Clark and Wilder William Brandt - His father's shoes Chad Taylor - Calling Doctor Dollywell Victoria McHalick - The picnic virgin Sarah Quigley - North of the lights Emily Perkins - Barking - The shared experience