Taranaki and Central Plateau
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Taranaki and Central Plateau region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Te Kuiti: Owen Marshall 1941
Taumarunui: Richard Packer 1935-1989
Oruanui: Rore Hapipi (Rowley Habib) 1935
Taupo: Puhiwahine d1906, Lisa Vasil 1973
Turangi: Lisa Cherrington 1970
Ohakune: Martin Edmond 1952
Taihape: EH McCormick 1906-1995
Inglewood: Fleur Beale 1945, Miriam Saphira
Stratford: Sylvia Ashton-Warner 1908-1984, Janet Hunt 1951, Dominic Sheehan, Michele Leggott 1956
Eltham: Vince Ford 1970, Shonagh Koea 1943, Douglas Stewart 1913-1985
Opunake: JC Sturm 1927
Hawera: Gaelyn Gordon 1939-1997, Dinah Hawken 1943, Sherryl Jordan 1949, Yvonne Kalman 1940, Phil Kawana 1965, Fiona Kidman 1940, Ronald H Morrieson 1922-1972
New Plymouth: Erick Brenstrum 1951, Jackie Davis 1963, John Guthrie 1905-1955, Stuart Hoar 1958, Anthony McCarten 1961, Caroline MacDonald 1948-1997, Ian Middleton 1928, Anne Powell 1948, Elizabeth Smither 1941
Wanganui: Leigh Davis 1955, Noel Ginn 1916-2003, Jean Lonie 1930, Dennis McEldowney 1926-2003
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Literary Locations
Hiruharama (Jerusalem): JK Baxter's [author] grave
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Literary Quotes
'...Watching the last of the light catch the snow on Ruapehu. He had seen the mountain before, but never at such close quarters as it was now in this part of the world. The glaciers rose up red and bloody to the peaks, that were clear against the sky, and below them was the dark line of bush and the shadow of the foothills.'
John Mulgan Man Alone
'I have come to measure my life by this road.
Something there is about the stark, barren, isolation,
That awakens in me an awareness of how temporary
& tenuous is our hold on life.
This thing, that, when all is said & done,
Is all we know & understand
The sky above us. And the Earth beneath.'
Rowley Habib 'Crossing the Desert Road at 68'
I pania taku kiri ki te tomairangi e tuturu nei ki te whenua(My skin is spread upon the mists that cling to the land)
Te Whiti o Rongomai
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