Sport 34: Winter 2006
Contents
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- Nigel Cox interviewed by Damien Wilkins — by Nigel Cox p. 3
- The Cowboy Dog — from a novel in progress — by Nigel Cox p. 45
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Bill Manhire p. 51
- Quebec — by Bill Manhire p. 51
- The Workshop — by Bill Manhire p. 52
- The Small Top — by Bill Manhire
- The Embarrassing Party — by Bill Manhire
- Nuptials — by Bill Manhire p. 53
- Delicious — by Bill Manhire p. 54
- Frolic — by Bill Manhire p. 56
- Medical — by Jenny Bornholdt p. 57
- Confabulations — by Geoff Cochrane p. 61
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Negative Buoyancy p. 62
- Choice p. 62
- Between Drinks
- Taking Stock p. 63
- Negative Buoyancy p. 64
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Rae Varcoe p. 65
- Santa Caterina, Heart of the S'nai — by Rae Varcoe p. 65
- Asylum Notes — by Rae Varcoe p. 67
- My Dead Surround Me — by Rae Varcoe p. 69
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S—t—r—o—k—e — by C.K. Stead p. 71
- [section] p. 71
- From the Notebook with the Paua Shell Swan p. 75
- Home Fires — by Kirsten McDougall
- [untitled] p. 85
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Part 1 — Johnsonville p. 86
- [section] p. 86
- Typo p. 87
- Porridge p. 88
- Mr Flood is an old actor in a brown suit
- Boating p. 89
- May tomorrow be a perfect day
- Handbag p. 90
- Genius p. 91
- Midnight special
- Field Trip p. 92
- Ghost Fish
- Sex p. 93
- Sundays were when the world ended p. 94
- The moment before light disappears p. 95
- Everything was singing p. 97
- Pyrogenic
- Summer p. 98
- Time Tables
- Childhood was wearing thin at the knees p. 99
- Stale bread p. 100
- Mrs Peachum p. 101
- The light that morning was faded like an old bedspread p. 102
- A giant wave p. 103
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Part 2 — Those Brown Flat Lands p. 104
- [section] p. 104
- She moves them to those brown flatlands p. 105
- Flood's farewell
- Cramp p. 106
- Tom p. 107
- Elizabeth
- Amy
- Train p. 108
- French Lessons p. 109
- Her laugh jangles like a wrist of coloured bangles
- Lightmaker p. 110
- Some places unlock the body
- Sketching p. 111
- Miss Janine Sutcliffe comes to dinner p. 112
- Floating, eating lunch
- Song
- Where the sky starts p. 113
- Swallows
- Firestarters p. 114
- The Crash p. 115
- Lego p. 116
- Aftershock
- The storm
- Meteor p. 117
- Weighing p. 119
- Home fires
- He stands in the pantry, curry powder, sweet basil, sticking in his throat p. 121
- Epilogue p. 122
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Hinemoana Baker p. 123
- The details of her nightmares — by Hinemoana Baker p. 123
- One — by Hinemoana Baker p. 124
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Johanna Aitchison p. 128
- sweetness blows through you — by Johanna Aitchison p. 128
- a new emotion comes — by Johanna Aitchison p. 129
- Pictures of the floating world — by Koenraad Kuiper p. 130
- Two sonnets — by Anne Kennedy p. 138
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Airini Beautrais p. 140
- What I Remember About Butterfly Creek — by Airini Beautrais p. 140
- Dining — by Airini Beautrais p. 141
- The Seventies — by Airini Beautrais
- The Good Old Kiwi Bloke — by Airini Beautrais p. 142
- Weather — by Airini Beautrais
- Fifteen Adventures in the World of People — by Amy Howden-Chapman p. 143
- God's brain and the souls of birds — by Clare Moleta p. 151
- Regionalism: three poems — by Gregory O'Brien p. 159
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Miranda Johnson p. 162
- Ceremony — by Miranda Johnson p. 162
- Along the edges — by Miranda Johnson p. 163
- The Young Wife — by Miranda Johnson p. 164
- Spring — by Miranda Johnson p. 165
- Mountain top — by Edmund Cake p. 166
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Peter Bland p. 168
- Mr Maui Sees God in a Summer Garden — by Peter Bland p. 168
- Mr Maui among the Post-modernists — by Peter Bland p. 169
- Mr Maui Loses the Plot — by Peter Bland p. 170
- Mr Maui Returns to the Death Goddess — by Peter Bland
- Seeing Susan: the performance of meeting — by Kate De Goldi p. 171
- Contributors p. 190