West Coast

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

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 '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