Nelson and Marlborough
Below are the literary figures and literary quotes from the Nelson and Marlborough region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Ferntown: Jean Devanny 1894-1962
Takaka: Leo Benseman 1912-1986, Yvonne du Fresne 1929, Beverley Dunlop 1935
Nelson: John Caselberg 1927-2004, Michael Henderson 1942-1998, Michael Jackson 1940, Joanna Orwin 1944, Alistair Paterson 1929, John Weir 1935
Picton: Kim Eggleston 1960, Nelle Scanlan 1882-1968
Tuamarina: Eileen Duggan 1894-1972
Blenheim: John Newton 1959, Ian Wedde 1946
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Literary Quotes
'The sea was white today, like zinc, and the sky so pale one had to concentrate to bring out the blue...'
Maurice Gee on Nelson Loving Ways
'No moon and a black sea,
The daytime birds have flown
To their night time places,
The incoming tide creeps
Over Farewell Spit.
Soon waves will wash the rocks
Outside our windows,
Spraying the glass with salt.
Twenty-four hours from now
Birds, land and sea
Will repeat it all again.
We'll be gone by then
Back to that northern
Beach across the Strait,
With far fewer sea birds
But Kapiti close at hand.
There we watch the sun go down
Where the Spit lies out of sight,
Believing love, like them
Returns again and again.'
JC Sturm 'The last night at Collingwood'
'The tides run up the Wairau
That fights against their flow.
My heart and it together
Are running salt and snow.
For though I cannot love you,
Yet, heavy, deep, and far,
Your tide of love come swinging,
Too swift for me to bar.
Some thought of you must linger,
A salt of pain in me,
For oh what running river
Can stand against the sea?'
Eileen Duggan
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