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GriffithREVIEW43 Pacific Highways Co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Lloyd Jones GriffithREVIEW43 INTRODUCTION 7 Looking east JULIANNE SCHULTZ: Changing the focal length At the crossroads LLOYD JONES: Winds of change ESSAY 12 To a neighbour I am getting to know ROBERTO ONELL: Letter from Chile (Translated by Ross Woods) 27 On masks and migration HARRY RICKETTS: Learning to stand upright 33 Patterns of migration GREGORY O'BRIEN: Notes on eels, on the way to the Kermadecs 38 Cable stations LYNNE McDONALD: The encircled earth 48 Primate city FINLAY MACDONALD: Gorilla in the midst 67 Hitching a ride REBECCA PRIESTLEY: Nature knows no borders 88 A Kiwi feast DAVID BURTON: Paua with wild silverbeet, samphire & sea grapes 95 Thinking about waves LYNN JENNER: Knowing when to leave 113 Born to run JOHN SAKER: The remarkable tale of Steve Adams 126 Walking meditations HINEMOANA BAKER: Fingernails, feet and fossils 138 Sea of trees ASHLEIGH YOUNG: The road not taken 144 O Salutaris IAN WEDDE: Between here and there 154 Pure brightness ALISON WONG: Conversations with ghosts 172 School report BERNARD BECKETT: Cracking the literacy code 184 Tectonic Z ROD ORAM: Creating a zone of hope 200 We are all Stan Walker DAMIEN WILKINS: Why you should have watched the most hated show on television 247 First, build your hut LYDIA WEVERS: New Zealand’s missing great nineteenth century novel 256 Simply by sailing in a new direction KATE DE GOLDI: The search for Storyland 267 The lie of the land HAMISH CLAYTON: Jim’s wife by another name 276 An A-frame in Antarctica MATT VANCE: Getting away from it all 282 Reading Geoff Cochrane CARRIE TIFFANY: A constant companion MEMOIR 106 The beach LEILANI TAMU: States of transition 119 Fitting into the Pacific PETER SWAIN: Some things you ought to know 169 Postcard from Beijing KATE WOODS: Artistic villages and empty mansions 208 Open road BRIAN TURNER: No pain, no gain 214 Whale Road KATE CAMP: Things to do in Iceland 240 Place in time PAMELA ‘JUDY’ ROSS: Abridged interview from the Avonside Project REPORTAGE 16 On my way to the border STEVE BRAUNIAS: Learning by osmosis 233 Amending the map SALLY BLUNDELL: A city of becoming 235 Portrait of an artist GLENN BUSCH: Photographer, documentary-maker, storyteller FICTION 61 Anxiety CK STEAD 134 Waiheke Island EMILY PERKINS 196 Getting to yes WILLIAM BRANDT POETRY 15 Clearing at Dawn YA-WEN HO 46 Demarcations JAMES BROWN 75 L’Anima Verde CLIFF FELL 94 Whale Survey, Raoul Island, with Rosemary Dobson GREGORY O’BRIEN 103 The uprising DINAH HAWKEN 222 Green light JAMES BROWN 245 There, being Monday morning VINCENT O’SULLIVAN 254 Encounter above the Hurunui CLIFF FELL 281 Erebus voices BILL MANHIRE 285 Equinoctial GEOFF COCHRANE griffithreview.com More great stories and poetry are available in PACIFIC HIGHWAYS Vol. 2 as a free download at www.griffithreview.com GriffithREVIEW43 AUTUMN 2014 GriffithREVIEW is published four times a year by Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing. 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FEEDBACK AND COMMENT www.griffithreview.com INTRODUCTION Looking east Changing the focal length Julianne Schultz FOR a number of years I travelled on a New Zealand passport. It wasn’t so much that I identified with the land of my birth, but for pragmatic reasons: when I first needed a passport to travel – fittingly to the Pacific – I was a student, and a New Zealand passport cost less than half an Australian one, and lasted twice as long. Even if I hadn’t been back since I left at age four, for a penurious twenty-year-old, this was as good a reason as any to identify internationally as a Kiwi. In the 1970s the boundaries between being a Kiwi and being an Aussie were blurred, and had been for half a century.