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Haurongo: Cleveland, Francis Leslie

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Pae tukutuku

Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision

Listen to interviews with Les Cleveland on the Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision website.

Les Cleveland photographs

Access Les Cleveland’s photographic archive at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Les Cleveland papers

Access Les Cleveland’s personal archive at the J.C. Beaglehole Room at Victoria University of Wellington.

Landfall

View photographs and read poems and articles by Les Cleveland in the literary magazine, Landfall.

 

Rārangi pukapuka

Bayly, J. and A. McCredie, eds. Witness to change: life in New Zealand: John Pascoe, Les Cleveland, Ans Westra:  photographs 1940–1965. Wellington, 1985

Cleveland, L. Dark laughter: war and song in popular culture. Westport (Connecticut), 1994

Cleveland, L. The great New Zealand songbook. Auckland, 1991

Cleveland, L. The politics of utopia: New Zealand and its government. Wellington, 1979

Cleveland, L. The silent land. Christchurch, 1966

Jackson, M. ‘Remembering Les Cleveland’. Back Story 7, 2019: 5–18

McDonald, L. ‘A raised bonnet on the lost highway: whither Les Cleveland?’. Back Story 8, 2020: 95–124

McDonald, L. (ed.). Les Cleveland: message from the exterior – six decades. Wellington, 1998

 

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Lawrence McDonald. 'Cleveland, Francis Leslie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/232034/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).