The Colour of Distance New Zealand Writers in

This anthology includes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writersamong them Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, James K. Baxter, and Michael King. French writersincluding Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliethave, in turn, visited New Zealand and their imaginative engagement with the region is also represented.

Preface

8

(10)

Introduction

10

(19)

Continental Drift: New Zealanders in France

Drunken Gunners, Wissant-sur-Mer, Fragment of an Autobiography

29

(4)

M. K. Joseph

from Indirections

33

(3)

Charles Brasch

from A Musician's Journal

36

(3)

Frederick Page

Avignon Summer 1978

39

(10)

Cilla McQueen

At Serrieres

49

(2)

James K. Baxter

from Homage to Matisse

51

(2)

Ian Wedde

France for the Weekend

53

(3)

Dinah Hawken

from Paris

56

(5)

C. K. Stead

At St-Romphaire, Georges, At Angey, Bonjour la France

61

(4)

Andrew Johnston

Continents

65

(1)

Mary Macpherson

The French Translation

66

(1)

Elizabeth Smither

from The Vintner's Luck

67

(4)

Elizabeth Knox

from The Book of Fame

71

(4)

Lloyd Jones

Ode to the Little Hotel

75

(6)

Jenny Bornholdt

Coming Home

81

(5)

Dylan Horrocks

Song: Alzon

86

(5)

Bill Manhire

The French in New Zealand

Qui ctes-vous vraiment Monsieur Meryon?

91

(8)

Vincent O'Sullivan

Christmas in New Zealand

99

(3)

Blaise Cendrars

from La Melee Fantastique

102

(6)

Denis Lalanne

Breathless

108

(7)

Nadine Ribault

Paekakariki

115

(7)

Pierre Furlan

from Son of France

122

(4)

Geoff Cush

from The Miserables

126

(3)

Damien Wilkins

Visiting Janet Frame

129

(9)

Nadine Ribault

from Au pays du long nuage blanc

138

(11)

Charles Juliet

`Tout va bien a la maison': Katherine Mansfield and France

Sanary

149

(1)

Katherine Mansfield

Villa Isola Bella

150

(2)

Fleur Adcock

from Maata

152

(4)

Witi Ihimaera

Letter to Katherine Mansfield

156

(2)

Charles Juliet

Love Affair

158

(1)

Riemke Ensing

from Mansfield

159

(11)

C. K. Stead

from Letters and Journals

170

(7)

Katherine Mansfield

A Nice Place on the Riviera

Gare SNCF Garavan, A Nice Place on the Riviera

177

(9)

Allen Curnow

When I Was a Writer

186

(7)

Nigel Cox

A Last Note from Menton

193

(4)

Peter Bland

from Living in the Maniototo

197

(2)

Janet Frame

How Nice, Paschal Numbers

199

(2)

Michael Harlow

from Unquiet World

201

(10)

Stephanie de Montalk

from The Transformation

211

(4)

Catherine Chidgey

Dedication

215

(9)

Michael Gifkins

Letter from Menton

224

(1)

Stephanie Johnson

Cote d'Azur

225

(1)

Louis Johnson

from The Quick World, Easter Saturday in Menton, Turning Point

226

(4)

Lauris Edmond

Meeting Patrick White

230

(2)

Michael King

All Souls: Menton, Villa Isola Bella

232

(2)

Michael Jackson

from Daylight

234

(3)

Elizabeth Knox

from Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame

237

(6)

Michael King

Villa Ephrussi

243

(5)

Bill Manhire

Copyright Acknowledgements

248

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