This book, by Tauranga historian Trevor Bentley was published in 2004 and is just one of a long line of excellent local history books by Bentley which focus the intersection of Māori and European cultures since the latter arrived on these shores.
Two stories that will leave you mulling long after you close this book are Cave Fever and Lifeblood. Cave Fever is set in an unknown future, where science has perverted biological nature for society to survive long after their good intentions have lost all meaning.
Monthly Thursday Work in Progress meetings resume February 7, 2019. The venue may change to The Historic Village's Incubator (The Artery) but a decision will not be made until mid January. Keep a watchful eye on the Facebook link from our Home Page - the Work in Progress link. If [...]
Residency day seven, high on Takarunga (Mount Victoria) Devonport. It's late afternoon and I'm looking west through the studio window between the lilies and the flax bushes. The sun glints on the endless stream of traffic on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and I'm so [...]
Sunday Focus 21 October has been cancelled due to two other events held this month - that being, 19 October Books From Your Own Backyard and 26, 27 October Women's Focus Expo at ASB Arena. We'll see you back at the Greerton Library, last [...]
By Lovonne Campbell Tauranga Writers Sunday Focus 16 September 2018, 2 - 4pm @Greerton Library 18 people in attendance Note: There will not be a Sunday Focus in October (Labour Weekend) Instead, we will have stalls for: Books from Our Own Backyard 19thOctober Focus on Women Expo 27/28 [...]
A presentation on 2nd April 2017 by by Tauranga Writers president Jenny Argante to the Tauranga Historical Society. Tauranga Writers was founded on the 21st June 1967. If I were to write my own memoir, I would begin, “I am a word wizard born [...]
Jenny Argante's 2002 winning essay in Takehe Cultural Studies Competition Make it new, said Pound, and the Modernists listened. Yet there was an inherent paradox within his words, for he also instructed us to immerse ourselves in ‘the river of tradition’.And how else can [...]
A treat for those who attended our Sunday Focus meeting at Greerton Library May 20 from our own local and steadily growing prolific author Lee Murray. Her journey of trials and tribulations is taking her to new contracts and recognition - but it didn’t happen overnight. Lee [...]
Poetry, music, song and games - yes, a real live parlour party - for just a few hours in the fitting surrounds of Tauranga's Historic Village hall on Saturday 2nd December. This event is Tauranga Writers last on the list for its Jubilee year. It's also a tribute to writers [...]
