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HULYA'S HEART BELONGED to words. It was the heaviest item she packed when she migrated to Australia as a new...

By Demet Divaroren

MAY 2012: I'm sitting at rehearsal of the Nothing prepared me for this show at La Mama Theatre and mentally I'm...

By Rebecca Lister

Well take her once, take her twice / She can leave you cold as ice Oh my, she is so...

It's been a long time, you old harlot. From my rented flat I see your big-ticket items – solid arc of Bridge, glinting slivers...

By Susan Varga

Money is a kind of poetry – Wallace Stevens It sounds oracular but really no one knows what Wallace meant. Conversely then, we're bound...

By Geoff Page

At an unfashionable seaside resort, no more than a country town that happened to be near salt water, Johnstone's Circus arrived for its...

By Kevin Densley

EVERYTHING IS FINE and then one day it isn't. Rogue jets on shower nozzles start spraying at odd angles,...

By Craig Cliff

THIS IS 1975, over a hundred and twenty years since the event, and I don't reckon history is that...

By Chris Armstrong

ALICE SPRINGS, THE modern town at the centre of the Australian continent, is also a converging point of ancient...

By Kieran Finnane

IN 1992, COLIN Duffy was profiled by Susan Orlean in Esquire magazine about his thoughts on wealth, consumer products,...

By Alice Pung

IT WOULD BE fascinating to know what Queen Victoria was thinking in 1893 as she penned her congratulatory note...

RANGIORA IS A small (population around twelve thousand) country town twenty-five kilometres north of Christchurch. It has an interesting...

By Paul Thomas