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Image of Kapka's passport Vogue   ‘Material Girl’

Guardian:  ‘G2 Opinion’

Vagabond:  ‘Letter from Scotland’
             Are East Europeans Racist?
             Keep migrant workers out: What Britain really needs is more bottle-wielding yobs

NZ Sunday Star Times
            ‘The Wanderer’ (opens a 92kb .jpg file)
            ‘Festival of Cruelty’ (opens a 176kb .jpg file)

Guardian Review
            Lyric Voices, on modern Argentine literature
            The Moldavian Pimp by Edgardo Cozarinsky

BBC Recordings
            BBC Radio 3 - The Essay: 'A sense of ourselves': broadcast Feb and Aug 2008
            BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour: 'With love from me to you': poets' correspondence'.
            BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, 13th Rosario Poetry Festival commentary, 2005
            BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, satirical monologue 'Monstrous Mums', broadcast 2006
            BBC World Service - Masterpiece feature 'Writers Away', producer Neil Trevithick, August, 2005
            BBC Radio 3 - Words per Minute poetry commission 'Calling Home', 2004
Snake Charmer             BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Pacific literature commentary commission, 2004

Travel Writer for www.whatsonwhen.com

Times Literary Supplement
            Roman Polanski by James Morrison
            Celluloid Vampires by Stacey Abbott
            The Book of Telling by Sharona Muir
            With Borges by Alberto Manguel
            For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri

Modern Poetry in Translation UK
             Polyglot Peregrinations 2005

Travel features for International Living Magazine, Ireland:
             Ecuador's Pacific Coast
             Bulgarian mountain gems
             Morocco Road Trip
             Barrios of Madrid

The Liberal
             Letter From Madrid

Travel features for Metro Magazine, NZ:
             Living with the British Army 2005
             Letter from Tangier 2005
             Middle Europe 2004
             Berlin, The New Capital of Europe 2003
             Cry, Argentina 2002
             Dancing Queens: the Eunuchs of Delhi 2001
             Love on the Balkans 2000
Snake Charmer
Travel stories for Next Magazine, NZ:
             Marseilles, l'enfant terrible 2004
             Among the Dubliners 2003
             Browsing Berlin 2003
             Uruguay: Latin Enigma 2002
             Driving with Himraj 2001
             First Tango in Buenos Aires 2001

Travel stories for AA Directions Magazine, NZ:
             On the road in Morocco 2005
             Moody Moors 2004
             New York on the Bosphorus 2004
             Lost and Found: Driving in Britain 2004
             Stranger than Middle Earth: Strange Place Names 2004
             Imaginary Road Trip 2003
             Great Kiwi Road Trips 2002

Travel stories for Outlook Travel, India:
             Madrid 2005
             First Tango in Buenos Aires 2001
Dades Gorge              The Other Europeans 2001

Features for the NZ Listener:
             Loitering without Intent, 2005
             A Royal Blank Cheque 2005
             The Unbearable Lightness of Being English 2004
             Cambridge: The Prize Factory 2004
             A Brilliant Bunch of Guys', a profile of Clive James 2004
             The Refugees As Ourselves 1998
             Capri 1998
             Marseilles 1998

Lifestyle features for Next, North & South, NZ Herald weekend magazine:
             Trash Not Posh, on British street-fashion 2004
             In the Company of Strangers', on café culture (2004)
             Two to Tango, 2004 (on the tango)
             Single in the City 2004
             How I Lost Everything, 2004
             Migrants Talk: Why I live in New Zealand 2004
             Turning 30 2004
             Places of the Heart 2000
             The Art of the Party 2000
Clown Edinburgh Fringe             Homework, 2000 (on house-sitting)

Landfall Magazine NZ:
             Between the Languages 2005
             We Too Are Europe 2002

Book reviews for the Sunday Star Times, NZ Listener, NZ Herald weekend magazine

Sunday Star Times NZ:
             London, East of the City 2005
             Edinburgh Fringe 2005


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