A View From Here: A View From Christchurch

This year, New Zealand is the official guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Aotearoa Blog Carnival is part of celebrating this focus on New Zealand literature and letters, and the theme for the fifth instalment is “A View From Here.” Reflecting on the theme, I felt there were so many slants and angles into it—and I did intend to develop the post ito four views, from the micro to the macro, centered on being a writer living in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The four perspectives were to be...