Essays / Articles
2024
The language of grief (Truth Serum Press, Loss Anthology, February)
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2022
The Stone, (100 voices ,Unbound Books, March )
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2021
I'll get back to you (New World Writing, September)
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2020
Love - Omani style (The Blue Nib, August)
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Leave it with me, I'm working on it (The Blue Nib, May)
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Writing 'The Ash, the Well and the Bluebell' (Flash Frontier, May)
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A writing trajectory (The Blue Nib, April)
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Where goats climb trees (The Blue Nib, April)
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Giving words to sorrow (The Blue Nib, March)
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Retrieving lost words (The Blue Nib, March)
2019
The Meeting of Tahr Minds (The Blue Nib, September)
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Writing Soul Etchings (TSS Publishing, July)
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Dawn Trek in Wahiba (The Blue Nib, June)
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When the bird hatched (Takahe 95, April)
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2018
The Frankincense Trail (Corpus) July
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The Stone (100 voices for 100 years) May
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Do it in a Flash (The Short Story) April
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The Stone (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 5 March)
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Moments of Magnitude (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 19 February)
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2017
I’ll get back to you (Connotation Press, November)
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The language of grief (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 15 May)
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Narrative Voice (Headland 8, New Zealand, January)
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2016
Giving sorrow words (Atlas Medical Literary Journal, New Zealand, July)
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2015
Reflections on Waterfall Bay (Landfall 229, New Zealand, May)
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2012
Moments of magnitude: the Christchurch earthquake (Social Alternatives, Vol 32, no 3, October, Disaster dialogues: Representations of catastrophe in word and image. University of the Sunshine Coast, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Queensland, Australia)
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Sing no sad songs (New Zealand Society of Authors Journal, issue 285, Feb/March)
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2009
On the frankincense trail (NEXT, New Zealand, October)
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Without her ( NEXT, New Zealand, January)
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2006
Giving sorrow words (Booknotes: The Journal of the New Zealand Book Council, New Zealand)
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1999
Brazil’s great divide (Christchurch Press, New Zealand, May)
From the Virgin Mary to Iemanja (Christchurch Press, New Zealand, May)
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1996
Country without a memory (Quote Unquote, New Zealand, January)
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1995
An awful lot of culture in Brazil (New Zealand Author, New Zealand)
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1994
Imagining murder and menace (New Zealand Books, New Zealand)
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International Feminist Book Fair (Quote Unquote, New Zealand)
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1987
Manic-depression (Christchurch Press, New Zealand)
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1986
Two travel articles on Turkey (Insight Magazine, New Zealand, 1986)
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1985
Series of six travel articles on Turkey (Christchurch Press, New Zealand)