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The Online Anthology
Editorial: Save Our Books
Anne Kennedy: Reading the Money
Harry Ricketts: We’re Just Rehoming Some Books
Dolores Janiewski: An Induced Amnesia
Fiona Kidman: Like Everyone Who Likes to Read Books
Cilla McQueen: To the 640,000 Awaiting Disposal
C.K. Stead: Crossing the Bar, Remembering the Thwaites
Lisa Samuels: The Archive Bird
David Herkt: An Ark
Charles Brasch: No Society Can Flourish
Mark Pirie: My Father's Library
David Karena Holmes: Les Èlu/es & The Chosen
Lyall Benjamin: If It Was Chairs or Pots
Michael Morrissey: The Slow Death of the Book
Christine Dann: Telling NewZealand’s Stories
Alan Brunton: Of Poetry
Carolyn McCurdie: Our Stories Held in Trust
Brian Turner: Sky
Thomas Hocken: On Tasman’s Journal
Stephanie Christie: the imaginary earthquake
Tony Beye:r Peter Hooper
Siobhan Harvey: A Book Removed from the National Library
Simon Sweetman: No Weeding
Bill Direen: A Fairy Tale
Richard Von Sturmer: The Steering Wheel
Richard Reeve: Free Pile
Alfred Domett (1811-1887): Books the Mighty Mines
Peter Simpson: Invaluable Places: The role of libraries in the life and work of Colin McCahon
Olivia Macassey: Footnote concerning a vanished book
Jack Ross Library Dreaming: Wallace Stevens Meets the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
Karl Wolfskehl/Friedrich Voit: Lobgesang/Song of Praise
Jeffrey Paparoa: Holman Book Group
Roger Hickin: Clothbound
Scott Flanagan: 21st Century Allegory of Hope
R.A.K. Mason: Epigram and A Hundred Thousand Blessings
David Geary: THE DEAL
Graham Reid: Back to the Islands
David Howard: Let There Be
Richard Taylor: Barbarism Against the Book
Edward Tregear (1846-1931): The Polynesian Maori Dictionary 1891
Michael O’Leary: Sonnet of the Book Thieves
Murray Edmond: The Borgesian Instance
Jenny Powell Title: Dog Turns at the Top of the Drive
Peter Olds: I Might Go to Adelaide One Day
Lynley Edmeades: These Lists Are Closed
Johannes Contag: Distilling Textual Tone Two Agrammatic Collages U.S. Criminal Code vs The Poetry of Oscar Wilde
Mary-Anne Bourke: (KLAXON) & The World Lost
Harry Ricketts: Indirect Popcorn 2
Mike Johnson: Kia Orana, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
David Eggleton: Homage to Fahrenheit 451
John Allison: a book in the hand
John Geraets: NLS Nabokov
Sandra Sarala: Subverse Protest Time Capsule from an Offshore Zeit-Traveller
Stephen Oliver Digital Ghosts
See also: Online Arguments for Retaining the National Collections