Takahe 67 Winter 2009
| Editorial | Karen Zelas | |||
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| Fiction: | ||||
| Maryrose Doull | The Loss Adjustor | Michael Lee | The Girl in the Candy Red Rotary | |
| Janis Freegard | Liking It | Robert McGuill | Mashed Potatoes & Gravitas | |
| Emma Furness | Bringing Back the Horses | Brian McMillan | The Civic | |
| Ralph Greco, Jr. | Any Given Saturday | Janet Newman | Yellow Rose | |
| Sally Houtman | Three Mississippi | Terry Sanville | The Quiet Café | |
| Sandra Jensen | Romeo and the Lonely Girl | Elizabeth Smither | At the Compassionate Restaurant | |
| Emily Keddell | Pretty Bird | Bryan Walpert | Staggers | |
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| Poetry: | ||||
| Ruth Arnison | The last word | dYLAN kEMP | untitled | |
| Robert James Berry | Cape Evans | Will Leadbeater | Returning From Stillwater | |
| Seagrass | Robert McLean | A Show Of Hands | ||
| Laura Borrowdale | Planting | Emma Neale | Converting the Preacher | |
| Janet Charman | intermediate | Evening Service | ||
| Lyall Clarke | White Queen | Freefall | ||
| Jennifer Compton | Absurd Hats 1909 | Haunted | ||
| The Topography of Wellington | Late | |||
| Linda Connell | My daughters’ hands | No Time Like the Present | ||
| Mary Cresswell | Border Crossing | Proposal | ||
| Harbour | Touched | |||
| Home Invasion | Maris O’Rourke | Harakeke | ||
| Alison Denham | Midsummer Fires | Paul Schimmel | Deus Ex Machina | |
| Jan FitzGerald | Attendant gull | Ian C Smith | Migration | |
| Alexandra Fraser | Clot before midnight | Barry Southam | The Smoker | |
| Conversation by Owl Light | Ashleigh Southam | Coffee | ||
| In-gratitude | Jan Vernon | Dust | ||
| Jane Griffin | Rotoma | Too hot for cats | ||
| Rachel Huston | A Blessing | Clare Ward | Possums | |
| Jan Hutchison | A Dry River-bed | Andrew Paul Wood | Weekend In Rotterdam | |
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| Cultural Studies: | ||||
| Emma Neale | NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for literature | |||
| Pat White | Gone Fishing | |||
| Cassandra Fusco | Lines and Colours of Light - Jan FitzGerald and Leonard Lambert | |||
| Writers’ Map | Writers’ Groups around New Zealand | |||
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| Reviews: | ||||
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| Guest Artist: | Jan FitzGerald and Leonard Lambert | |||
| Guest Fiction: | Elizabeth Smither | |||
| Guest Poet: | Emma Neale | |||