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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

A pleasant outing: he thought he would be decapitated as the balloon ripped through barbed wire fences (The Spinoff, November, 14)

 

I’ll get back to you (Connotation Press, November) 

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Grieving the death of a child (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 24 July) 

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The language of grief (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 15 May) 

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Navigating a way through grief (Corpus, Medical Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand, 27 March) 

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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)

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