Sea change / Linley Boniface -- Just being there / Sue McCauley & Lora Mountjoy -- My dear diarist / Rhonda Pritchard -- In deed / Emma Neale -- Ten / Donna Tusiata Avia -- Sapientia et risio / Tessa Copland -- Reel / Kate Duignan -- A song for Lizzie / Marilyn Duckworth -- The expanding friend / Mary Macpherson -- Shifting / Judith White -- Dear Chi-Ying/Love, Sarah / Sarah Tan & Choong Chi-Ying -- A hymn to friendship / Fleur Adcock -- Friends and phantoms / Christine Johnston -- Falling for the exotic / Margie Thomson -- The other ones / Jane Westaway -- Best friends / Jan Kemp -- Oxymorons / Cheryl Pearl Sucher -- Girls-only outings / Linda Burgess -- Inside the stone / Jenny Robin Jones -- On using people you love in your poems / Vivienne Plumb -- The third person / Fiona Kidman -- Where have all the poems gone? / Diane Brown -- A vision at Warrington Beach / Bernadette Hall -- A fair bit of biff / Kate De Goldi -- Starsky and Hutch / Paula Boock & Lynne Cardy -- Dearest Rosamunde / Elizabeth Smither -- Down we go / Roma PoĢtiki -- Jan / Joan Rosier-Jones -- Evocations / Cilla McQueen -- To Perth by rail / Bub Bridger -- The long way home / Jane Westaway.
Summary:
The editors of this book knew what they didn't want when they called on New Zealand writers to to pay tribute to women's friendships: not sentiment, not sociology, not celebrity chat. The result is a gritty and touching look at the durable, flexible and sustaining relationship that is friendship.
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