The Black Horse
and Other Stories

Ruth Dallas

Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye for detail and for the ironies of life.

The titles themselves evoke a whole world: Stewart's Farm, Walter's Mother, The Letter, Lily of a Day, A Long Wait, The Macrocarpa Hedge, A Step on the Path, The Black Horse, The Other Room, The New Teacher.

Five of these stories have been published in Landfall, the rest are new.

About the Author

Ruth Dallas was born in Invercargill in 1919, and first published her poems in The Southland Times in 1946. She is the author of several books of poetry and also of novels for children. She has received a number of literary awards, including the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1977 for her fifth collection, Walking on the Snow. Her Collected Poems was published in 1987. She has held the Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago and is an honorary Doctor of Literature of the same university.

Publication details

Fiction
ISBN 1 877133 85 X, paperback, 210 x 140 mm, 112 pp, 24.95
Release May 2000