West Coast
Below are the literary figures and literary quotes from the West Coast region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Westport: Peter Hawes 1947
Spenser Range: Lake Tennyson
Grey Valley: Stevan Eldred-Grigg 1952
Greymouth: James Norcliffe 1946, Bill Pearson 1922-2002
Hokitika: JHE Schroder
Butler Ranges: Erewhon Col
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Literary Quotes
'With his weapon a shovel
To test the river gravel
His heart was as big as his boots
As he headed over the tops
In blue dungarees and a sunset hat.
Wicked country, but there might be
Gold in it for all that.'
Denis Glover [author] 'Arawata Bill'
'In this scarred country,
this threshold land,
The mountains crouch like tigers'
James K Baxter 'The Mountains'
'...A sudden sweeping view and I saw the country in the grandeur of its proportions, set in its frame of sea and cloud and endless air. Then I was brought to earth, and saw that most people's view hardly strayed beyond their own street and that they had forgotten the sea and mountains almost at the end of the street.'
Charles Brasch Indirections
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