Bay of Plenty and Waikato
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Bay of Plenty and Waikato region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Coromandel Peninsula: EH Audley 1896-1973, Pei Te Hurinui Jones 1898-1976
Katikati: Alan Mulgan 1881-1962
Tauranga: Heather McPherson 1942, Pat Wilson 1926
Whakatane: Maurice Gee 1931, Briar Grace-Smith 1966, Anne Holden 1928, Margaret Mahy 1936
Ruatoki: Rangitunoa Black 1954
Opotiki: Nora Sanderson
Thames: Bob Lowry 1912-1963
Te Aroha: Chris Baker 1970, John Cranna 1954
Waitoa: Karyn Hay 1959
Morrinsville: Phyllis Johnston 1935
Waharoa: Jack Lasenby 1931
Matamata: Ray Grover 1931, Gregory O'Brien 1961
Rotorua: Lynley Dodd 1941, Alan Duff 1950, Robert Lord 1945-1991, Craig Marriner 1974, Karlo Mila 1974, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 1949
Ramarama: Jane Mander 1877-1949
Waiuku: Mike Minehan 1947
Whatiwhatihoe: Te Puea 1884-1952
Kawhia: Rangi Topeora c1790-1873
Hamilton: Raewyn Alexander 1955, Ken Arvidson 1938, Stephanie de Montalk 1945, Murray Edmond 1949, Bernard Gadd 1935, Lynley Hood 1942, Jan Kemp 1949, Elsie Locke 1912-2001, Bob Orr 1949, Frank Sargeson 1903-1982, Bruce Stewart 1936
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Literary Locations
Katikati: Katikati Haiku Pathway [kati]
Literary Fellowships/Institutions
Hamilton: Waikato University writer-in-residence
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Literary Quotes
'Tera te kotuhi auahi ana,
Ia i te ripa o Tautari i raro;
(Behold the hazy smoke clouds rising,
From the peak of 'Tautari afar)'
'He Waiata mo Kiore' Nga Moteatea about Maungatautari
'Strangers
they stop and ask me the way
if only I knew'
Barry Morrell's Katikati haiku stone.
'When you stop at some small country town
and some local -
after you've complimented them on their town -
says We like it it's a good community
you think of that group of people
for whom this place is town,
Reporoa, say,
everyone creating their own sort of light
throwing it out their kind of way
and you think of that community
and the communion of saints.
I never felt less
like wearing dark glasses
than in Reporoa this morning.'
Sam Hunt 'That feeling-of-being-in-the-country'
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