East Cape and East Coast
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the EAST CAPE AND EAST COAST region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Te Araroa: Apirana Ngata
Ruatoria: Katerina Mataira 1932
Rangitukia: Arapera Blank 1931
Te Karaka: Haare Williams 1936
Gisborne: Hinewirangi 1947, Witi Ihimaera 1944, Te Kooti Arikirangi 1832-1993, Joy Watson 1938
Napier: Bub Bridger 1924, Ken Duncum 1959, David Hill 1942, Noel Hilliard 1929-1997, Dean Parker 1947, Renée 1929
Clive: Errol Brathwaite 1924
Hastings: Barbara Anderson 1926, John Broughton 1947, Robin Dudding 1935, Timoti Sam Karetu 1937, Toi Te Rito Maihi 1937
Dannevirke: Lauris Edmond 1924-2000, Sue McCauley 1941
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Literary Locations
Havelock North: Te Mata Estates - sponsors of the Te Mata New Zealand Poet Laureate
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Literary Quotes
'Whangara must be one of the most beautiful places in the world,
like a kingfisher's nest floating on the water at summer solstice.'
Witi Ihimaera The Whale Rider
'...the tiny jewelled
orange trees of the north and the cloudy
vineyards, grape bloom mornings of summer
on Hawkes Bay hills and the noonday
shimmer, sky as blue as a bird's egg;
Gate of Haast and the sweep from earth
to heaven, the mind soaring ten thousand
feet in an instant; or the flame of the high
country tussock in August, the sky blue-
black and old Ruapehu hunching its
shoulders into a jacket of snow.'
Lauris Edmond 'Wellington Letter'
'Today, Kaiti Hill incises a sharp edge in the sky. It sparkles with a serenity not yet destroyed by the brooding city below.'
Witi Ihimaera Tangi
'I drop to my haunches, I clumsily pull a stalk of the long grass from the summer ground. I put it in my mouth and chew. My mouth tastes of gales, of artesian water, of sun. My mouth tastes the Manawatu for the first time in my life.'
Yvonne du Fresne 'The Spy'
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