Tim Saunders
Home is an Island: A writer’s tribute to the islands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Neville Peat (Potton & Burton, 2022), 200pp, $39.99
You can see an island from wherever you stand in Aotearoa New Zealand. Maybe it is one of the islands we live on—‘fish’ or ‘waka’ or ‘anchor’. Perhaps it is one of the offshore islands that surround us, constantly battered by southerly swells, or an island on one of our inland lakes. It could be an island of remoteness and isolation or an island of complex communities. An island of habitation or wilderness. This imagery of islands is central to the sense of ourselves as a nation. [Read more…]