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- ↑ "Best New Zealand Poems now online". www.creativenz.govt.nz.
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- ↑ "Colonial Literature and the Native Author - Indigeneity and Empire - Jane Stafford - Palgrave Macmillan". SpringerLink– via www.palgrave.com.
- ↑ "Previously unseen Katherine Mansfield poems discovered in US library". Stuff.
- ↑ Wevers, Lydia (11 February 2014). "Why New Zealand has no great 19th-century novel". The Conversation.
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