Title: Sport 37

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Sport 37: Winter 2009

Contributors

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Contributors

Pip Adam's debut collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For, will be published by Vup in 2010.

Johanna Aitchison lives in Palmerston North with her partner and infant son. She is currently working on her third volume of poetry, Whose Child Are You?, with the asistance of a grant from Creative New Zealand. Her second book, a long girl ago (Vup, 2007), was short-listed in the poetry section of the Montana Book Awards.

Her work is featured in the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems (2007 and 2008) and will appear in the updated edition of Big Weather: Poems of Wellington.

Philip Armstrong teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury.

His most recent book, What Animals Mean (Routledge, 2008), is a study of animals in literary fiction from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first.

David Beach's two collections of poems are Abandoned Novel (Vup, 2006) and The End of Atlantic City (Vup, 2008).

Tony Beyer is now teaching and writing in Taranaki.

Miro Bilbrough first published poetry in Sport 1 and has been writing ever since.

A Wellingtonian by birth, Miro now resides in Sydney where she makes films (Bartleby, Floodhouse) and mentors screenwriting students at Sydney International Film School.

Amy Brown is the author of The Propaganda Poster Girl, shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Eleanor Catton's first novel, The Rehearsal, was published in New Zealand by Vup in 2008, and has been shortlisted in both the fiction and first book categories in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. It has just been published by Granta in the UK, where it has won a Betty Trask Award, and is forthcoming from Little Brown in the US and several foreign language publishers.

Lynn Davidson has published three collections of poetry, of which How to Live by the Sea (Vup, 2008) is the most recent, and a novel, Ghost Net.

Gigi Fenster is a Wellington-based writer and occasional bureaucrat. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and is currently working on a novel.

John Gallas. Born in Wellington, 1950. Young days in Nelson. Has lived and worked in England since 1972, coming home each winter. Seven books of poetry published by Carcanet. And two, with illustrations by Clifford Harper, by Agraphia Press.

Thomas Gough is the penname of Thom Conroy, a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University in Palmerston North. In New Zealand his fiction has appeared in Landfall. In America his fiction may be found in various journals, including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review and the New England Review. He is currently working on a novel set in and around Cook Strait in 1839.

Ingrid Horrocks is the author of Travelling with Augusta (Vup, 2003). She is completing a collection of poems for publication in 2010.

Mariana Isara lives and writes in a confined space in Otautahi/Christchurch. Her poems have appeared in Trout, Turbine, the Listener, and elsewhere. Her poem page 198 quotes Audre Lorde, 'your silence will not save you', and 'kneeling hurts the knees' is taken from Kerri Webster's poem 'Hotel Thule'.

Paul Johns is a Christchurch artist and photographer.

Andrew Johnston lives in Paris. His latest book is Sol (Vup, 2007). 'Afghanistan' is a work in progress. The excerpts here borrow inspiration (and a few lines) from: Ghost Wars, by Steve McColl; The Places in Between, by Rory Stewart; Syngué Sabour, by Atiq Rahimi; Nasim Fekrat's blog Afghan Lord; and some poems by Rumi, whom Afghans call Jelaluddin Balkhi, because he was born in Balkh, Afghanistan. Brent Kininmont lives in Tokyo with Sanae and their daughter Hana.

Chloe Lane lives, writes, and publishes Hue & Cry in Wellington.

Jessica Le Bas's first collection of poetry, incognito, won the Montana Nzsa First Book of Poetry Award in 2008. Her second collection, Walking to Africa, looks at mental illness in adolescence. It will be published by Aup in October 2009. She lives in Nelson.

Anna Livesey amuses herself with broadband policy and her husband when not writing poetry. Her second collection, The Moonmen, will be published in 2010. Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. Her work will also appear this year in Etchings 7 (Ilura Press) and her last publication was Millionaire's Shortbread, a joint poetry collection.

Bill Manhire's latest book is Lifted (Vup and Carcanet). 'Herschel at the Cape' is one of a number of poems commissioned for the astronomy/space anthology Dark Matter. The publisher's press release notes: 'For Dark Matter, the third in its trilogy of poetry and science anthologies, the Gulbenkian Foundation commissioned leading international poets to create new work inspired by their discussions with space scientists. The collaborations were brokered by poet Maurice Riordan and the eminent cosmologist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (who as a post-graduate student was involved in the discovery of pulsars).' Like the other commissioned poets, Bill Manhire provided a note to his poem: 'I was partnered with the astronomer and science writer Marilyn Head. When we first met, we talked mainly about Southern Hemisphere astronomy. At some point the talk came around to Sir John Herschel. I had heard of William Herschel, and of his sister Caroline, but not of John. As Marilyn talked about John, it slowly dawned on me that she was in love with him— true!—and as I began to read more about him, it became clear why he is held in such great and universal affection. Marilyn found me a copy of the journal he kept during the 1830s when he spent several years at the Cape of Good Hope completing his father's catalogue of stars (Herschel at the Cape: Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834–1838, ed. David S Evans et al, Austin and London, University of Texas Press, 1969). I felt lifted by the rich variety of his interests, and by the sheer joy which accompanies his steady observations of the stars. He is a wonderful instance of human happiness.'

Robyn Marsack is Director of the Scottish Poetry Library, and co-editor with Andrew Johnston of Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets: An Anthology (Carcanet Press and Vup, 2009). This essay was first published in the Edinburgh Review 126 (May 2009) and is reprinted with permission.

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Lawrence Patchett is co-editor of the art and literary journal Hue & Cry. His postgraduate research explores recent trends in biographical fiction.

Vivienne Plumb's stage adaptation of her short story The Wife Who Spoke Japanese In Her Sleep premiered at the 2009 Auckland Festival, produced by the Auckland Theatre Company. Another play, Oyster, will be part of the 2009 Young and Hungry Festival at Bats Theatre in July. She is presently working on a doctorate of creative arts.

Helen Rickerby's second poetry collection, My Iron Spine, was published last year. She is co-managing editor of Jaam literary magazine, and runs a teeny-tiny publishing company, Seraph Press. Her latest project is making video poems, and she can often be found hanging out at .

Frances Samuel writes and works in Wellington. She lives just down the road from the beach at Island Bay.

Kerrin P. Sharpe is a teacher of creative writing. She has recently published in: Best NZ Poems 08, Turbine 07, Snorkel, Bravado, Takahe, NZ Listener, Poetry NZ, Junctures and The Press.

Charlotte Simmonds is the author of The World's Fastest Flower, shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Marty Smith teaches English and writing at Taradale High School and she also has an MA from the Iiml. Her poems have been published in Sport, Landfall, Turbine, Kaupapa, The Yellow Medicine Review, and the poetry website The Page. She always thought her father's conduct was perfectly normal.

Cath Vidler is the editor of Snorkel (), a literary magazine specialising in the publication of creative writing by Australians and New Zealanders.

Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Sport, Turbine, Trout, Heat and Cordite. Her first collection of poems is forthcoming from Puncher and Wattmann ().

L.M. Wallace is a Wellington poet whose work has previously appeared in literary journals including Meanjin and Snorkel. In 2008 she completed her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, was an editor of Turbine 08, and received the Biggs Poetry Prize. The title 'The Scarlet White-Hearted Little Queenie, Miss Elson' is lifted from the thank you notes of The White Stripes' 2007 album Icky Thump.

Ian Wedde's three latest books are the novel Chinese Opera (Vup, 2008), the poetry collection Good Business (Aup, November 2009) and the art monograph Bill Culbert: Making Light Work (Aup, August 2009).

Tom Weston's latest collection is Small Humours of Daylight, from which a poem was selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2008.

Ashleigh Young is a writer and editor living in Wellington. Her work has appeared in Booknotes, Turbine, Sport, and Best New Zealand Poems. She is currently writing a collection of essays/memoir pieces (essoirs?) and working with the illustrator Jacqui Colley to make some large canvasses with words on them. She is still driving some poems into a small collection.