Õtautahi Christchurch lies on the edge of the Canterbury Plains bounded by the Cashmere Hills, the home of Kahukura – Red Cloak of the Sky – to the east and Aoraki and the Southern Alps to the west.Even in the heart of winter hot winds come and Kahukura rises from the Cashmere Hills and fans […]
Books
Gypsy – poems
The five sections of this fictional verse sequence trace the long life in Aotearoa New Zealand of Irish settler Miri Gipsy O’Donnell. In an imagined northern coastal setting, her early experiences of the country are as a young wife and mother aged about twenty. By contrast, her final years, up to her ninety-ninth, are spent […]
Tara- a book of Poems
Tara is Kathleen Gallagher’s first book of poetry. The twenty-six poems in this book were written between 1979 and 1986. She has participated in poetry readings and workshops in New Zealand, Sydney and San Francisco. The cover drawing is by David Nepia. I love you Annieshe looked at him laughingyou’re a taxi cab driverI come […]