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Poetry

Good Friday

TawhirimateaClaims the air tonight,Blinds the outward eyeWith needles of rain.TangaroaRides the full tide in,Pounding the mind’s beachesIncessantly with Sound. NowOld altars will be overturned,Judgemental gods ...
Monday 27 May, 2019
Poetry

The creek

We choose leaves carefully, the kind very green and glossy on one side light bouncing and bouncing off them. White on the other, midveins clear, ...
Monday 27 May, 2019
Creative non-fiction

Centennial

Our house backs onto paddocks and on the other side of those paddocks part of Transmission Gully is being constructed. It’s a notorious road. One ...
Monday 27 May, 2019
Poetry

Currently

after  Alistair  Te Ariki Campbell They  say we  are ants.  So many humans.  They say  we are sheep  one  after  another  on a hillside.  They ...
Monday 27 May, 2019
Poetry

Paekākāriki Hill

hunched like a guardian above the village under a full moon silver light like tinsel strewn through the trees a bolt of blue light exploded ...
Friday 24 May, 2019
In 50 years' time

Not everyone wears shoes

Erica Julian ponders Paekākāriki’s future and what makes us special. The first in series of stories for Paekakariki.nz by residents on what we will, or ...
Saturday 11 May, 2019
Community

Children and parents learn te reo Māori together

“Tapawha whero!” yells three-year-old Hana as she proudly points to a red square on a board. She’s playing a game naming colours and shapes at ...
Wednesday 08 May, 2019
Events

ANZAC 2019

A citizen’s ceremony, Paekākāriki styles.
Friday 26 April, 2019

Village News

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Index of Authors

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Mark Amery, Sarah Bainbridge, Harriet Bright, Nik Bullard, Sam Buchanan, Vanessa Crowe, Amy Delahunty, Kate Drury, Kirsten Drysdale, Anja Foley, Rob Hack, Gilbert Haisman, Dinah Hawken, Shona Jaunas, Erica Julian, Michael Keith, Tina McIvor, Andy McKay, Maria McMillan, Jan Nisbet, Vicky Noon, Carolyn Parker, Meryl Richards, Liana Stupples, Apirana Taylor, Louise Thornley, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, and Carlos Wedde.