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

Literary Locations

Havelock North
Te Mata Estates - sponsors of the Te Mata New Zealand Poet Laureate

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'