Poems and short stories by New Zealand teenagers. Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction / James Norcliffe -- Front page classifieds / Ben Lee -- The problem with smiling / Stuart Baker -- Neighbours / Antonia van Koeverden -- Akaroa nursery rhyme / Nicole Phillipson -- A boy named Tracy / Mary Dennis -- Fast service / Lis Alvarado -- Letter to the NZ Film Commission / Zoë Higgins -- My digital diet / Mahaleel Alfante -- A certain disregard for gravity / Phoebe Wright -- Dinner / Sonya J. Clark -- Counterpoint / Mathew Daniel -- The transmission of icebergs / Emily Adlam -- Snàkeeta / Yvette Willemse -- Your little troop / Chelsea Robinson -- Fingertips / Cassandra Shih -- Second-hand traveller / Rosie Bolderston -- Monuments in my head / Emily Adlam -- Falling i(out of)n love / Phoebe Wright -- Moping poets / Jennifer Yeh -- A man worth writing about / William Roud -- After the wedding / Anushka Britto -- Paper shufflers / Henrietta Bollinger -- Everyday places / Kate Wilson -- Lost and found / Phoebe Wright -- Real time / Cassandra Shih -- The Lockness monster / Emily Watson -- Three worlds / Rebecca Henderson -- Numbing mist / Mathew Daniel -- History lesson / Hannah White. The charnel ground / Kyan Krumdieck -- The voice of small spaces / Emily Adlam -- The history lesson / Mary Dennis -- The colour of sky / Emily Watson -- Sometimes / Rebecca Wong -- Chapel in March / Jennifer Yeh -- Fishing for birds / Rosie Bolderston -- Didn't you hear, God? / Mackenzie Paton -- In the street behind the temple / Pooja Sundar -- H2O: life stops water flows / Pooja Sundar -- A love letter to Burma / Phway Aye -- July baby / Phway Aye -- Scripted / Pooja Sundar -- Melt / Zoë Higgins -- The Spanish word for grandmother / Sonya J. Clark -- Child and cats / Nicole Phillipson -- Enti and the Star Woman / Justine Waterson -- The holidays / Sonya J. Clark -- Too early / Lis Alvarado -- Ellis the camel / Emily Watson -- Face of clay / Lucy Marshall -- Birds, joggers and Aldous Huxley / Zoë Higgins -- Refraction / Nicole Phillipson / Blocked sunlight / Kate Wilson -- Ghost town / Hannah White -- Land of milk and honey / Kirsty Plowman -- Suburban algebra / Ben Lee -- Market stall living / Kirsty Plowman -- Holding pattern / Rosie Bolderston -- Premonition / Mary Dennis.
Summary:
Collection of poetry and short stories written by teenagers conveying the attitudes of young New Zealanders. Suggested level: senior secondary.
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