Takahe 66 Autumn 2009
| Editorial | Siobhan Harvey | |||
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| Fiction: | ||||
| Sarah Anderson | What are you waiting for? | David Jull | ANZAC Blues | |
| Claire Baylis | Washing Lettuce | James O'Sullivan | The Kids | |
| Margaret Beverland | Something’s Out There | Jane Seaford | My Best Friend | |
| Barton Bonner | The Water Wheel (A Parable) | Laura Solomon | The Lighthouse | |
| Laura Borrowdale | Gaa-gawk | Christine Sutton | Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Fiona Farrell | Excerpt from Limestone | Eden Carter Wood | Elephant & Castle | |
| Nancy Gauquier | Amy | |||
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| Poetry: | ||||
| Raewyn Alexander | I tossed our bed into the front garden | Sue Fitchett | the woman who dangles from a balloon | |
| Rosetta Allan | Old Men in My Garden | Jania Galletly | The Importance of Bees | |
| Iain Britton | For Paul Gauguin’s vahine picking mangoes ... | Catherine Mair | Molly and the Confidence Man | |
| Glenn Colquhoun | Two gulls | Vana Manasiadis | Four Postcards | |
| Two oystercatchers | Robynanne Milford | A Stray Man | ||
| Absent birds | Reihana Robinson | Hawk | ||
| Two ducks | L.E.Scott | what i liked about wednesday | ||
| Two oystercatchers | Kerrin P Sharpe | Karaka Bay 1905 | ||
| Two gulls | bedtime | |||
| Shelter (Snug Cove) | Ginny Sullivan | Reflection | ||
| River | Storm Warning | |||
| Sky | Christine Tyler | South Pacific | ||
| Shirley Duechrass | Shelter (Snug Cove) | Karen Zelas | Dawn Parade | |
| David Eggleton | Where the Big Rivers Go | |||
| Winter, She Said | ||||
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| Cultural Studies: | ||||
| Bernadette Hall | When the War Came to Our Place | |||
| Kathryn Gilkison | Holding Your Place | |||
| Bracelet | ||||
| Cassandra Fusco | Neither fabled shades of green, nor poetic illuminations of light - the work of Kristin O'Sullivan Peren |
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| Writers’ Map | Writers’ Groups around New Zealand | |||
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| Reviews: | ||||
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| Guest Artist: | Kristin O’Sullivan Peren | |||
| Guest Fiction: | Fiona Farrell | |||
| Guest Poet: | Glenn Colquhoun | |||