Bay of Plenty and Waikato
Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Bay of Plenty and Waikato region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.
Literary Figures
Coromandel Peninsula
EH Audley 1896-1973
Pei Te Hurinui Jones 1898-1976
Katikati
Alan Mulgan 1881-1962
Tauranga
Heather McPherson 1942
Pat Wilson 1926
Whakatane
Maurice Gee 1931
Briar Grace-Smith 1966
Anne Holden 1928
Margaret Mahy 1936
Ruatoki
Rangitunoa Black 1954
Opotiki
Nora Sanderson
Thames
Bob Lowry 1912-1963
Te Aroha
Chris Baker 1970
John Cranna 1954
Waitoa
Karyn Hay 1959
Morrinsville
Phyllis Johnston 1935
Waharoa
Jack Lasenby 1931
Matamata
Ray Grover 1931
Gregory O'Brien 1961
Rotorua
Lynley Dodd 1941
Alan Duff 1950
Robert Lord 1945-1991
Craig Marriner 1974
Karlo Mila 1974
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 1949
Ramarama
Jane Mander 1877-1949
Waiuku
Mike Minehan 1947
Whatiwhatihoe
Te Puea 1884-1952
Kawhia
Rangi Topeora c1790-1873
Hamilton
Raewyn Alexander 1955
Ken Arvidson 1938
Stephanie de Montalk 1945
Murray Edmond 1949
Bernard Gadd 1935
Lynley Hood 1942
Jan Kemp 1949
Elsie Locke 1912-2001
Bob Orr 1949
Frank Sargeson 1903-1982
Bruce Stewart 1936
Literary Locations
Katikati
Katikati Haiku Pathway
Literary Fellowships/Institutions
Hamilton
Waikato University writer-in-residence
Literary Quotes
'Tera te kotuhi auahi ana,
Ia i te ripa o Tautari i raro;
(Behold the hazy smoke clouds rising,
From the peak of 'Tautari afar)'
'He Waiata mo Kiore' Nga Moteatea about Maungatautari
'Strangers
they stop and ask me the way
if only I knew'
Barry Morrell's Katikati haiku stone.
'When you stop at some small country town
and some local -
after you've complimented them on their town -
says We like it it's a good community
you think of that group of people
for whom this place is town,
Reporoa, say,
everyone creating their own sort of light
throwing it out their kind of way
and you think of that community
and the communion of saints.
I never felt less
like wearing dark glasses
than in Reporoa this morning.'
Sam Hunt 'That feeling-of-being-in-the-country'
