Cover -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Introduction -- Anthony Byrt: What I'm Reading -- Eleanor Catton: The Land of the Long White Cloud -- Giovanni Tiso: My Own Private Aotearoa -- Lara Strongman: A Song From Under the Floorboards -- David Haywood: What Not To Expect -- Nic Low: Ear to the Ground -- Megan Clayton: The Needle and the Damage Done -- Naomi Arnold: Mother's Day -- Greg Bruce: The Desperate Quest: How Auckland's Property Market Drove Me to the Edge of Insanity -- Steve Braunias: About an Egging -- Leilani Tamu: Notes on Cultural Diplomacy -- José Barbosa: My Swim with Kim -- Ashleigh Young: Small Revolutions, or: On My Bike in London -- Paul Ewen: The King and I -- Tina Makereti: He Taonga te Reo: How ngā Kupu Māori Contribute to New Zealand Writing in English -- Rachel Buchanan: There's a Buried Forest on My Land -- Simon Wilson: Mutton -- Keith Ng: The Sound of Thunder -- David Winter: The Origin and Extinction of Species -- Claire Browning: Spring Forward -- Alice Te Punga Somerville: Shine Bright Like a Moko: The History of Rihanna's Tattoo -- David Herkt: Paul -- Gregory Kan: Borrowed Lungs -- Allan Smith: What I learned from Momo: or, When is a house a stand of trees? -- Jemima Diki Sherpa: Three Springs -- Sarah Bainbridge: Speak Up Small Red Thing -- Elizabeth Knox: Margaret Mahy, Hero -- Alice Miller: Digesting Ourselves -- Chris McDowall: How to Get Lost -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements.