After Bathing at Baxter's: Essays and Notebooks Book

	Black square dance: an introduction	7
	Acknowledgements	14
I	An Alphabet Without Edges
	After bathing at Baxter's	17
	Southern Woman - Ruth Dallas	46
	An alphabet without edges - from a Janet Frame notebook	53
	Imagine the imagination - Margaret Mahy's Dissolving Ghost	62
	A journey around Kendrick Smithyman's Atua Wera	66
	High cultural life - Eric McCormick's An Absurd Ambition	81
	Widening horizons and worlds regained: a conversation	84
II	The Shape of Living
	Morning Glory in Springtime in autumn - self-portrait	101
	An attempt at the first page of an autobiography	103
	The shape of living children I	105
	Lost and living children	109
	Aspects of his face	111
	East born	114
	Wild horses	120
	The exact size of the world	123
	The dark plane leaves at evening	126
	North Piha bach with typewriter	145
	The second Ada	148
	Radio Birdman	152
	A long sentence in Czech ending in English	158
	The shape of living children II	159
	The man who wrote the book about the weather	163
	Electricities	166
III	Fringe Dwellers
	Blue Monk, Black Light - Ralph Hotere and Thelonious Monk, a notebook	179
	No road to follow - Eric Lee-Johnson	195
	These May Mornings in October - Rosalie Gascogne	199
	Big tree transmission - Colin McCahon's tau cross	202
	Breaking open the luggage - Denis O'Connor's 'concrete poetry'	209
	First on the left past the art supermarket, the magic theatre - Martin Edmond's The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont	213
	I am a shepherd	217
	Chunk of landscape, chunk of memory - the paintings of Euan Macleod	218
	Changing the light - Noel McKenna in Taranaki	225
	The outsider within	229
	Somebody say something - Colin McCahon's Storm Warning	239
	The public interest - an annotated bibliography	260
	Index	283