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Cha “Encountering” Poetry Contest

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems in English language (or poems translated into English) on the theme of “Encountering”.

If you are submitting a translation, please make sure you have the permission from the original author.

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Writing Out of Asia

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (AP Writers) invites emerging and established writers, translators and scholars of Asian literature to join visiting writers for ‘Writing Out of Asia’, a series of roundtables, workshops and readings 2-5 December at the University of Western

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ME’A KAI The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific

Sunday, August 21, 2011

ME’A KAI The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific
ROBERT OLIVER, with Dr. Tracy Berno and Shiri Ram
RANDOM HOUSE, 2010 http://www.randomhouse.co.nz

Nau te rourou, maku te rourou ka ora te manuwhiri
With your food basket and my food basket, everyone has enough to eat

This

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WILFUL BLINDNESS - WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL

Sunday, August 21, 2011

WILFUL BLINDNESS - WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL

MARGARET HEFFERNAN

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

REVIEW BY DR. CATHIE KOA DUNSFORD

In her introduction to this book, Heffernan quotes from T.S Eliot’s Four Quartets:

Go, go, go said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear too much

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ME TE OTURU: RADIANT LIKE THE FULL MOON - A REVIEW ESSAY OF FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS:
AT THE END OF DARWIN ROAD, VINTAGE, RANDOM HOUSE, 2008.
BESIDE THE DARK POOL, VINTAGE, RANDOM HOUSE, 2009.

ME TE OTURU: RADIANT LIKE THE FULL MOON - A REVIEW ESSAY OF FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS.

Ko Hinemoa, ko au
As for Hinemoa, as for me

Or, as Governor Grey

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