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Auckland University Press

The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams

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June 2013, no. 352
Brian Matthews reviews 'The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature' edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
To begin at the beginning. ‘When the first Pakeha ship came,’ Te Horeta told the explorer Charles Heaphy, ‘I was a lad … [about twelve years old].’ Watching the ‘white people’ row ashore, ‘paddling with their backs to the way they were going’, the boy and his companions ‘thought they must have eyes behind their heads’. ... (read more)

Dark Night: Walking With McCahon by Martin Edmond

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November 2012, no. 346
Shannon Burns reviews 'Dark Night: Walking With McCahon' by Martin Edmond

Colin McCahon was a prominent late-modernist New Zealand painter who temporarily disappeared while visiting the Sydney Botanic Gardens on 11 and 12 April 1984. As Martin Edmond relates, ‘Colin went off to the toilet but didn’t return’, and subsequently ‘spent 28 hours lost on the streets of Sydney’. When discovered, ‘he could not say who he was, carried no identification and seemed disoriented’. This largely speechless disorientation persisted until McCahon’s death.

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