EDITORIAL

• STUART MURRAY & MARK WILLIAMS

FICTION

• PAUL DAGARIN, River Exercise
• ALISON GLENNY, On the Ice
• SARA KNOX, From The Midday Demon – Railhead
• CARL SHUKER, From The Depleted Forest – Meals Variously Ready to Eat

POETRY

• ROBERT SULLIVAN, Took: A Preface to ‘The Magpies’,

  Fragments of a Maori Odyssey

• GREGORY O’BRIEN, The non-singing seats, The Surfer’s Mass
• JOAN FLEMING, How to have made what we’re making, Going In, Children
• GEOFF COCHRANE, That Winter with Celeste, Coming Down with Something,

  South Auckland, Late in the Day, Self-Portrait

• ANNA JACKSON, Dream golems, Pull down the white curtain,

  Poetry and its returns, Infinity

• CHARIS BOOS, Mnemosyne

ARTICLES

• STEPHEN TURNER, Compulsory Nationalism
• JAMES MEFFAN, ‘Culturalism gone mad’: The Play of Cultural Rhetoric in the

  Invention of New Zealand National Identity

• MICHELLE KEOWN, ‘Can’t we all just get along?’: bro’Town and New Zealand’s

  Creative Multiculturalism

• JANE STAFFORD, ‘Irrevocably mute, for ever mourned’: George Grey and

  his Collaborators

• KIRSTINE MOFFAT, The River and the Ocean: Indigeneity and Dispossession

  in Vincent Ward’s River Queen

• MELISSA KENNEDY, ‘Are You for Real?’: Witi Ihimaera’s Eidolon Camouflage
• CLARE BARKER, ‘Bionic Waewae’ and ‘Iron Crutches’: Turangawaewae,

  Disability, and Prosthesis in Patricia Grace’s Dogside Story

• JULIE ADAMS, Carving a Space: George Nuku and Power and Taboo:

  Sacred Objects from the Pacific 1760-1860 at the British Museum

REPORT

• STUART MURRAY, Era New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland July 2008

REVIEWS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS