Two poems from this year’s winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards poetry categories, Alice Te Punga Somerville and Khadro Mohamed. worst place to be a pilot by Alice Te Punga Somerville watching west papua on tvbut they don’t say that:the british voice-over guy keeps calling it indonesia. the show is about young english … [Read more…]
An interview with Stuart Taylor, by Callum McFadden for WFi. You started your playing career at St Mirren where you played under Scottish football legend Steve Archibald. How much did you learn from working under him? “I left school at fifteen years of age to join St Mirren and I was at the club for … [Read more…]
Can you quantify how much a guy ‘gets Origin’? Do numbers matter, when Queensland always start as outsiders and promptly win anyway? Billy Slater, in his position as Queensland coach, has never affected the air of a man who wants to talk about data, or tactics, or anything really in relation to the nuts and … [Read more…]
This week sees the release of “Avengers” #1, the newest iteration of Marvel’s classic team. This is the ninth or tenth (there’s no way to actually know) volume of the title, and Jed MacKay and C.F. Villa are the latest in a crazy long line of creators who got their hands on the Avengers characters. … [Read more…]
The next generation of potential Maroons superstars have flocked to Townsville for the Queensland School Sport Rugby League championships. These are the players to watch. Hundreds of budding footballers will compete across two age groups – 14-15yrs and 16-18yrs – as they vie for the title of the state’s best region. A Queensland team will … [Read more…]
And there came a day, a day like many others before it, when Marvel found itself releasing a new “Avengers” series- on that day, “Avengers” volume 9 #1 was born. To set itself apart from the many volumes that came before it. Time marches on, and Marvel relaunches its flagship book. But can a new … [Read more…]
More than 1,500 people – around 70 per cent of the passengers onboard – tragically perished after the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April 1912. But the bodies of around 1,160 passengers were never found. So, what happened to them? As new photos of the shipwreck show shoes and champagne bottles belonging to those … [Read more…]
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Willie Watt, chairman of the Seafarers Memorial Group, accepts a cheque for £20,710 from Kayleigh Nicolson, vice-chairperson of the Caithness and North Sutherland Fund. Picture: Alan Hendry A new statue commemorating lost seafarers has “exceeded our expectations” and will become a place of reflection and … [Read more…]
However, a collision with a log at speed on the second tack of the day just off North Head very nearly brought the day to an early conclusion for the LEQ12 with the starboard foil suffering damage just below the intersection with the foil arm. Immediately the sailors lowered the sails, and the chase boat … [Read more…]
Souths coach Jason Demetriou accused his side of not valuing the two points in their upset 36-16 loss to the Eels and believes his side’s kicking game wasn’t up to scratch. The Rabbitohs had plenty of motivation in Indigenous Round, but Demetriou believes they went away form what has worked for them in the last … [Read more…]