Articles Archive

Place in time

As told to Glenn Busch by Pamela 'Judy' Ross as part of the Christchurch documentary project, Place in Time.COWLISHAW...

By Glenn Busch

Looking east

FOR A NUMBER of years I travelled on a New Zealand passport. It wasn't so much that I identified...

By Julianne Schultz

At the crossroads

THE OLDEST HIGHWAY across the Pacific is perhaps as old as the planet. A jet stream circles the Pacific...

By Lloyd Jones

To a neighbour I am getting to know

Translated by Ross WoodsA UN VECINO QUE EMPIEZO A CONOCERVoy a contarte una historia de agua, una historia de...

By Roberto Onell

To a neighbour I am getting to know
[Spanish version]

CARTA EN SEIS ESTACIONESA UN VECINO QUE EMPIEZO A CONOCEREstimado poeta Gregory O'Brien,Voy a contarte una historia de agua,...

By Roberto Onell

On masks and migration

WINTER, A SMALL grocery shop in suburban New Zealand: the opening stage direction of Jacob Rajan's enduringly popular solo...

By Harry Ricketts

Patterns of migration

AN EEL, LIKE an artist or writer, carries its immediate past around with it: if an eel wants to...

By Gregory O’Brien

Cable stations

Here in the womb of the world – here on the tie-ribs of earthWords, and the words of men,...

By Lynne McDonald

Primate city

NOT LONG AGO a TV current affairs program mounted a live studio debate about whether 'Auckland is sucking the...

By Finlay Macdonald

Hitching a ride

IN THE SUBTROPICAL Pacific Ocean, 160 kilometres southwest of Raoul Island, Lieutenant Tim Oscar stared out of the window...

By Rebecca Priestley

A Kiwi feast

Ingredients4 pāuaoilbutter6 cloves garliclarge bunch wild silverbeet16 stalks of samphire4 miniature bunches of sea grapes WORKING ON THE idea that...

By David Burton

Thinking about waves

FROM MY RESEARCH journal, August 2011: Our sea is made up of certain blues. Sometimes, just before the weather...

By Lynn Jenner