Descriptive outline in three parts, the six settlements, Wellington, Nelson, Otago, Canterbury, Taranaki and Auckland, secondly the Maoris and thirdly government--Bagnall.

A collection of 45 poems drawn from the author's four previous volumes, This Big Face (1988), Moving House (1989), Waiting Shelter (1991) and How We Met (1995).

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