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Anthology
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. Voyager link
Evening Post January 31 (1997): 5.
Otago Daily Times February 8 (1997): 22.
Listener February 22 (1997): 48-49.
Metro 190; April (1997): 108-109.
The Press April 12 (1997): sup.p.12.
Overland 148; Spring (1997): 53-58.
Landfall 194; Spring (1997): 341-345.
JAAM: just another art movement 8; Nov (1997): 79-82.
New Zealand Doctor December 10 (1997): 40.
Meanjin 57.1; (1998): 198-202.
Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. Voyager link
Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. Voyager link
Contents of a breeze, Wellington and View of Wellington from Marahau. In: Writing Wellington: twenty years of Victoria University writing fellows. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999. Voyager link
Look this way: New Zealand writers on New Zealand artists. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007. Voyager link
New New Zealand poets in performance (+ 2 sound discs). Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Voyager link
The colour of distance: New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005. Voyager link
Dominion Post August 6 (2005): E10-11.
Listener 200.3407; August 27 (2005): 46.
Takahe 57; Autumn/Winter (2006): 50.
The nature of things: poems from the New Zealand landscape. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2005. Voyager link
The Source of the Song: New Zealand Writers on Catholicism. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995. Voyager link
Twenty contemporary New Zealand poets: an anthology. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009. Voyager link
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Article
"A broad and wooden head : Florian Habicht's 'Rubbings from a Live Man'." Art New Zealand 128; Summer (2008): 58-61.
"A tour guide of real and imagined places : Graham Percy (1938-2008)." Art New Zealand 127; Winter (2008).
"An artist of all five seasons." Art News 28.3; Spring (2008): 68-70.
"Art: the light fantastic." Listener 220.3614; August 15 (2009).
"Man listening to God." New Zealand Books 18.1; Autumn (2008): 24.
"Marketplace or laboratory." Listener 215.3564; August 30 (2009): 42-43.
"On hearing, at the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco, the outcome of the New Zealand elections, November 2008." New Zealand Books 19.1; Autumn (2009): 11.
"Playtime; The Matter of Hotere." Listener 208.3496; (2007).
"Romantic voyage." Best New Zealand Poems (2008).
The damn thing. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988.
"The state books that shaped young minds." Dominion Post May 17 (2007): 4-5.
"The Titirangi cubist." Listener 210.3514; September 15 (2007): 38.
"The utopian Hamiltonian." Landfall 216; Nov (2008): 69-74.
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Biography
A micronaut in the wide world: the imaginative life and times of Graham Percy. Auckland, Auckland University Press 2011. Voyager link
"Thousands of years and millions of miles." New Zealand Herald February 19 (2011): B16-17.
Art News 31.1; Fall (2011): 137-139.
Sunday Star Times February 19 (2011): C4.
"Illustrator's art whimisical but sometimes dark." New Zealand Herald March 26 (2011): B16.
"Exiled from childhood." Listener 228.3697; March 19 (2011): 38-39.
Otago Daily Times March 12 (2011): 49.
"A cabinet of curiosities." New Zealand Books 21.2; Winter (2011): 15.
Moments of invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988.
Thine own hands, mate. In: Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 59.
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Criticism
"A journey around Kendrick Smithyman's Atua Wera." Landfall Spring (1977): 306-321.
"A short history of the poem in New Zealand painting." PN Review 29.6; (2003): 18-26.
Ian Wedde. In: Moments of Invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 60-67.
Just below water. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 13-19.
Maurice Shadbolt. In: Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988.
Patricia Grace. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988.
Witi Ihimaera. In: Moments of invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 94-99.
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Essay
"After bathing at Baxters." Sport 11; Nov (1993): 122-157.
Bill Manhire: accepting the naked horse. In: Moments of Invention : portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988.
Essay In: Ralph Hotere : Black Light. Wellington, Te Papa Press 2000.
Flexing her muscles. In: Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 68-74.
"For Victor Meertens." Sport 24; Autumn (2000): 11-13.
"High country weather." Listener 203.3447; June 3 (2006): 34-36.
Jeanne Macaskill : day by night. Wellington, 2007. Voyager link
Making imaginary games respectable. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 47-52.
"The mad Kiwi ranter." Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 34-39.
News of the swimmer reaches shore : a guide to French usage. Wellington, Victoria University Press 2007. Voyager link
"No dream but life : James K. Baxters Spark to a Waiting Fuse and Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings : a notebook, 19 December 2001." Sport 28; (2002): 95-108.
"Turning point." The colour of distance: New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand. Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington 2005.
The savour of ordinary things. In: Moments of Invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 82-87.
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Exhibitions
Aberhart. Wellington, Victoria University Press 2007. Voyager link
Elizabeth Thomson : my hi-fi, my sci-fi. 2006. Voyager link
Euan MacLeod : Bowen Galleries at the Auckland Art Fair 2007. Auckland, Bowen Galleries 2007. Voyager link
New art now: contemporary art in Australia and New Zealand. Auckland, Random House 2009. Voyager link
We set out one morning : the BNZ art collection. Auckland, 2006. Voyager link
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Interview
"Some paintings I am frequently asked about : talking with Bill Manhire about Ralph Hotere." Landfall 191; Autumn (1996): 21-33.
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Non Fiction
A nest of singing birds : 100 years of the New Zealand school journal. Wellington: Learning Media, 2007. Voyager link
After bathing at Baxters : essays and notebooks. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2002. Voyager link
New Zealand Herald G; March 9 (2002): 6-6.
Sunday Star Times F; March 24 (2002): 2-2.
Evening Post April 26 (2002): 11-11.
Otago Daily Times B; May 18 (2002): 7-7.
Dominion March 21 (2002): 20-20.
Art New Zealand 104; Spring (2002): 91-92.
New Zealand Books 12.4; Oct (2002): 14-15.
Back and beyond : New Zealand painting for the young and curious. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2008. Voyager link
"Creative New Zealand." Booknotes 144; Summer (2003): 3-5. Voyager link
East: Stanley Palmer. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2009. Voyager link
Fiona Hall : force field. Wellington: Wellington City Art Gallery, 2008. Voyager link
"From Diesel Mystic : a travel book." Landfall 42.1; Mar (1988): 74-82. Voyager link
Hotere : out the black window : Ralph Hoteres work with New Zealand poets. Auckland: Godwit, 1997. Voyager link
Introduction to Hotere: Out the Black Window: Ralph Hoteres work with New Zealand poets. Auckland: Godwit, 1997. Voyager link
Lands & Deeds : Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters. Auckland: Godwit, 1996. Voyager link
Evening Post June 7 (1996): 5-5.
Art News Auckland 16.2; Winter (1996): 9-10.
Listener June 15 (1996): 48-49.
GP Weekly June 26 (1996): 31-31.
New Zealand Herald 7; June 29 (1996): 9-9.
Metro 181; July (1996): 129-132.
Dominion July 6 (1996): 16-16.
Otago Daily Times August 24 (1996): 22-22.
The Press sup; August 24 (1996): 14-14.
Quote Unquote 39; Sept (1996): 30-30.
Landfall 192; Spring (1996): 343-346.
New Zealand Books 6.4; Oct (1996): 8-9.
New Zealand Geographer 53.2; Oct (1997): 64-65.
Nigel Brown. Auckland: Random Century, 1991. Voyager link
Dominion January 18 (1992): 11-11.
Evening Post January 24 (1992): 5-5.
New Zealand Books 1.4; Mar (1992): 12-12.
Art New Zealand 64; Spring (1992): 101-107.
"On and around creation : the hand-made books of Alan Loney." Art New Zealand 57; Summer (1990): 70-72. Voyager link
Parihaka : the art of passive resistance. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001. Voyager link
North and South 180; Mar (2001): 98-99.
Listener March 3 (2001): 60-60.
"Bearing witness." Landfall 201; May (2001): 167-173.
"Poetry and the shape of things to come." Listener 169.3086; July 3 (1999): 50-50. Voyager link
Sculpture on the gulf : Waiheke Island, 26 Jan-11 Feb 2007. Waiheke Island: 2007. Voyager link
"Tall woman story 1; Tall woman story 2; Luton Girls choir, the holy city (Side B)." Printout 11; Winter (1996): 2,3,37. Voyager link
"The dark plane leaves at evening." Sport 21; Spring (1998): 26-45. Voyager link
Towards evening. In: The Source of the Song : New Zealand Writers on Catholicism. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995: 23-39. Voyager link
"Translating ourselves." New Zealand Books 15.4; Oct (2005): 9-10. Voyager link
"Turning heads." Listener 121.2525; July 23 (1988): 53-54. Voyager link
What the roof dreamt. 2007. Voyager link
White Horse Black Dog : Sport 15. 1996. Voyager link
Dominion October 28 (1995): 18-18.
Sunday Star Times D; October 28 (1995): 18-18.
Evening Post February 16 (1996): 5-5.
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Novel
Diesel Mystic : a Novel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1989. Voyager link
Dominion April 29 (1989): 11-11.
Evening Post April 29 (1989): 31-31.
Otago Daily Times June 7 (1989): 28-28.
Metro 9.98; Aug (1989): 180-182.
Listener 125.2582; September 2 (1989): 48-49.
The Press November 11 (1989): 27-27.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531; February 2 (1990): 122-122.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531; February 2 (1990): 122-122.
Landfall 173; Mar (1990): 76-78.
Straight : a novel in the Irish-Ma&772;ori tradition. Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2007. Voyager link
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Obituary
Landfall 207; May (2004): 164-168.
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Poetry
"A butterfly or two." Landfall 213; Autumn (2007): 16-18.
"A clod of earth speaks." Dominion Post B; February 4 (2000): 11-11.
"A Culbertbook." Sport 19; Spring (1997): 145-156.
"A Ken Bolton reader." Sport 8; Autumn (1992): 113-116.
"A month in aloe : Harry Moores filling : 3 fratelli : As much as." Landfall 42.2; June (1988): 192-197.
"A morning and an afternoon of serious drinking." JAAM: just another art movement 6; Feb (1997): 79-81.
"A portrait of Ernesto Cardenal in New York; The uses of clouds; Mon enfant; From Bride of the disappearing man." Landfall 160; Dec (1986): 425-428.
"A recipe for custard." Vital Writing 3; (1991): 63-64.
"A stack and a coyle for my grandmother." Meanjin 49.4; Summer (1990): 733-733.
"A view from where I was sleeping : Kaikoura." Listener 121.2520; June 11 (1988): 13-13.
"A visiting card." Landfall 157; Mar (1986): 21-21.
Afternoon of an evening train. Wellington, Victoria University Press 2005.
Listener 200.3409; September 10 (2005).
New Zealand Books 15.5; Dec (2005): 17-18.
Dominion Post E; July 16 (2005): 12-12.
Otago Daily Times sup; July 23 (2005): 6-6.
"Agriculture & produce." Meanjin 53.2; Winter (1994): 232.
Air pocket. Wellington, Fernbank Studio 2004. Voyager link
"An automotive enthusiast considers the proposed Wellington V8 car race." Dominion Post B; May 13 (2005): 11-11.
"An early portrait of Margaret Hickey." Listener 125.2592; November 6 (1989): 132-132.
"Anchoress : Gregorian." Accent 3.3; April (1988): 27-27.
"Arrival of the departed." Listener 120.2503; February 13 (1988): 13-13.
"Asia; Roadside; The choice." Landfall 138; June (1981): 176-177.
"Atomic explosion in the Pacific." JAAM: just another art movement 7; April (1997): 36-36.
"Ballast; Letter to a friend concerning mushrooms." Islands 2.1; April (1985): 9-11.
"Beausoleil; European; An instrument for measuring shadows, croagnes." Landfall 205; Autumn (2003): 147-150.
Beauties of the octagonal pool. Auckland, Auckland University Press 2012. Voyager link
"Seeing more splendidly." Listener 233.3757; May 12 (2012): 39.
Otago Daily Times February 11 (2012): 53.
Big weather : poems of Wellington. Wellington, Mallinson Rendel 2000.
Listener February 3 (2001): 58-59.
New Zealand Herald I; March 31 (2001): 9-9.
Evening Post February 9 (2001): 5-5.
JAAM: just another art movement 15; May (2001): 188-191.
"Carnival : (Sesqui, Wellington, February 1990)." Listener 126.2611; March 26 (1990): 116-116.
"Cecilia sudden; I have a neighbour who keeps moving the boundary posts; From Great Evening." Landfall 183; Sept (1992): 321-324.
"Claudio Monteverdi." Vital Writing 2; (1990): 91-105.
"Claudio Monteverdi." Landfall 44; June (1990): 219-232.
"Colours of distance and returning home." Landfall 217; (2009): 193-197.
"Counting song." Landfall 196; Spring (1998): 211-212.
"Dark room." Sport 30; Mar (2003): 52-52.
Days Beside Water. Auckland, Auckland University Press 1993.
Landfall 173; Mar (1990): 76-78.
Evening Post October 29 (1993): 9-9.
New Zealand Books 3.3; Summer (1993): 18-19.
New Zealand Herald January 15 (1994): 6-6.
Listener 142.2810; February 19 (1994): 54-55.
Quote Unquote 10; April (1994): 37-38.
Landfall 187; Autumn (1994): 147-151.
"Descriptions I have heard of her; The Pinnacles; Unaccustomed citizen; Small swirl pools and Veras pond; River mortar; Play; Bay of Plenty; We were married; The moment and history; A fog; Epithalamium." Poetry NZ 11; (1995): 11-23.
"Disasters in splendour." Sport 13; Spring (1994): 47-62.
"Dominion." New Zealand Books 14.2; June (2004): 17-17.
Dunes and Barns. Auckland, Modern House 1988.
Listener 123.2555; February 25 (1989): 46-46.
"Electricities." New Zealand Books 5.1; Mar (1995): 9-9.
"Elegy (A100)." Printout 4; Feb (1993): 38-39.
"Europe before the war." Poetry NZ 5; (1992): 15-15.
"Evening, Marlborough; Letter to Louise Lawrence." Turbine 6; December 15 (2006).
"Four-sided river (Wanganui - New Plymouth July 24, 1987)." Listener 121.2522; July 2 (1988): 42-42.
"From Irishman & industry; How we spent the seventies." Printout 7; Autumn (1994): 5, 13-15.
"From Milton Avery a book of paintings." Poetry NZ 1; (1990): 16-18.
Gorilla, Guerilla. Auckland, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop 1986.
Great Lake. Sydney, Local Consumption Publications 1991.
"Guests of the Rossija Hotel!; Outside Lenins tomb; Woman sleeping in an art gallery; Rublyov; Words sung by a Russian soprano." Landfall 210; Spring (2005): 13-20.
Irishman & Industry: poems. Auckland, Pear Tree Press 1998.
"Jack in the green; Sketching the dead man (portrait of a poet)." Landfall 155; Sept (1986): 364-365.
"Justine; As he saw her." Islands 1.2; Nov (1984): 102-104.
"Letter from a journey home; Letter from London via Sligo." JAAM: just another art movement 1; July (1995): 3-7.
Location of the Least Person. Auckland, Auckland University Press 1987.
PPTA Journal 2; (1987): 50-51.
Landfall 42.1; Mar (1998): 102-105.
"Luna and Arthur." Listener 166.3058; December 19 (1998): 45-45.
Malachi : an Entertainment. North Adelaide, South Australian Publishing Ventures and Futures 1993.
Landfall 187; Autumn (1994): 147-151.
New Zealand Books 3.3; Summer (1993): 18-19.
Evening Post October 29 (1993): 9-9.
"Man in a field of goats." Meanjin 48.4; Summer (1989): 814-815.
Man With a Childs Violin. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1990.
Evening Post December 28 (1990): 5-5.
Dominion December 15 (1990): 9-9.
New Zealand Books 1.1; April (1991): 11-12.
My Heart Goes Swimming : New Zealand Love Poems. Auckland, Godwit 1996.
Listener March 23 (1996): 55-55.
Quote Unquote 33; Mar (1996): 28-29.
Otago Daily Times February 17 (1996): 22-22.
Evening Post February 9 (1996): 5-5.
"News of the swimmer reaches the shore." JAAM: just another art movement 21; Mar (2004): 117-120.
"Ode to Te Whiti-O-Romgomai." Best New Zealand Poems (2001).
"Ode to the Sarjeant Gallery." Listener 198.3386; April 2 (2005): 42-42.
"Ode to the Waihi Beach dump." Listener 173.3126; April 8 (2000): 44-44.
"Origin of a watercolour box." Meanjin 54.1; (1995): 40-40.
Paris : a Poem. Auckland, Auckland University Press 1984.
New Zealand Herald (1984).
New Outlook 13; Nov/Dec (1984): 42.
Landfall 39; Mar (1985): 106.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1985): 753.
Listener 2368.110; (1985): 48-49.
"Passage; Over Richmond Road." Landfall 142; June (1982): 162-163.
"Pelican Street; Bastille Day." Landfall 146; June (1983): 145-146.
Poetry In: Below the Surface. Auckland, Vintage 1995.
"Portrait falling forty feet." Listener 123.2552; January 28 (1989): 7-7.
"Portrait of a painter and the world in front of the dog." Takahe 12; Winter (1992): 30-30.
"Printmaking studion of John Drawbridge, Island Bay, Wellington." Listener 200.3411; September 24 (2005): 41-41.
"Reliquary; Stray." Printout 1; Nov (1991): 5-6.
"Rocks, Te Namu Pa, Taranaki." Dominion Post B; October 7 (2005): 10-10.
"Rocks, Te Namu Pa, Taranaki; Untitled; A modern colonial." Landfall 201; May (2001): 98-100.
"Shaping up." Listener 142.2809; February 12 (1994): 50-51.
"Skateboard with accessories; Woman with time on her hands; A hanging man." Poetry Australia 110; (1987): 40-41.
"Solomon singing." Listener 125.2586; September 30 (1989): 7-7.
"Storm warning." Listener 168.3081; May 29 (1999): 46-46.
"The eleven most beautiful beaches in the world - a play." Takahe 23; Spring (1995): 41-44.
The Long Fall from Splendour to Splendour. Auckland, Puriri Press 1993.
"The mill hums." Landfall 213; (2007): 12-13.
"The orchardists." Meanjin 51.3; Spring (1992): 634-634.
"The run off; To have feet and not have walked on them." Sport 18; Autumn (1997): 160-170.
"The surface of the Walters; Ecce puer." Landfall 194; Spring (1997): 191-192.
"The surfer's mass." Landfall 215; May (2008): 151-152.
"The ten most beautiful women in the world." Meanjin 52.2; Winter (1993): 375-375.
The wolf of Horeke. Wellington, Fernbank Studio 2008. Voyager link
"Verandah on Kauri Point Road, Laingholm; Those who do not sleep." Landfall 43.3; Sept (1989): 328-331.
"Visiting the Ralph Hotere exhibition with Ross Stevens." Listener 159.2983; July 5 (1998): 48-48.
"Walking sons (for Jack-Marcel on his first birthday." Landfall 41.3; Aug (1987): 261-263.
"Where I went." Best New Zealand Poems (2005).
Winter I Was. Wellington, Victoria University Press 1999.
Dominion January 22 (2000): 22-22.
Evening Post January 21 (2000): 5-5.
Landfall 199; Mar (2000): 135-138.
JAAM: just another art movement 13; Mar (2000): 188-191.
Otago Daily Times May 3 (2000): 24-24.
New Zealand Books 10.2; June (2002): 14-15.
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Profile
Cilla McQueen. In: Moments of Invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 88-93.
Fictitious town-planning. In: Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann Reed 1988: 40-46.
Moments of Invention : Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers. Auckland, Heinemann 1988. Voyager link
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Short Story
"When poetry became prose." Landfall 209; Oct (2005): 90-91.
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Videorecording
Artsville. Auckland, 3rd Party Productions 2008. Voyager link
The writing of Janet Frame. Wellington, 2006. Voyager link
 

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Article
Gifkins, Michael. "Bookmarks : Paihia to Rotorua." Listener 2461.115; April 25 (1987): 71-71.
Gifkins, Michael. "Bookmarks: Bursars and fellows." Listener 119.2495; December 12 (1987): 87-87.
Gifkins, Michael. "Bookmarks: Free to write.." Listener 121.2520; June 11 (1988): 48-48.
Guy, Camille. "Grey inspires colourful prose." New Zealand Herald May 11 (1989): 3-3.
Taylor, Rob. "Clevelands photographs put social decline into perspective." Dominion December 12 (1990): 34-34.
Sharp, Iain. "Changing the shape of Kiwi poetry." Sunday Star Times February 9 (1997): E4.
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Criticism
Hulse, Michael. "When God died: six contemporary New Zealand poets." Sport 8; Autumn (1992): 131-138.
Menzies, Malcolm. "Colin and friends." Landfall 197; Autumn (1999): 51.
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Essay
Ensing, Riemke. "Images of Baxter (poet & prophet): the resurrection." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 13; (1995): 189-210.
Bowron, Jane. "The paper prince." Sunday Star Times D; January 22 (1995): 4-4.
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Interview
De Goldi, Kate. "Conversation." Booknotes 142; Winter (2003): 3-4.
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