CONTENTS

Foreword by Mandy Hager

Introduction by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod

Gina Cole ......................................Baby Doll

Lani Wendt Young .................................. Fitu

Rajorshi Chakraborti .................. Out of Zone

Witi Ihimaera .......Tent on the Home Ground

Anahera Gildea .............. The Queen’s chain

Elsie Locke ..............The Lake and the River

Owen Marshall ..Effigies of Family Christmas

David Hill ................................Free as a bird

Katherine Mansfield ...........The Doll’s House

Patricia Grace .................Letters from Whetu

Frank Sargeson .........................A Good Boy

J.P. Pomare .......................Days of Our Lives

Tracey Slaughter ... the names in the garden

Russell Boey ...................Nineteen Seconds

Nithya Narayanan ...................................Atul

Ting J. Yiu ..........................................Gutting