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Robyn Salisbury talks to RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan
Clinical psychologist Robyn Salisbury, author of Free to be Children: Preventing child sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand, talks to Kathryn Ryan...
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10 Questions with Robyn Salisbury
Q1: One doesn’t have to read too far into this book to see that it has been a passion project for you. What’s driven you? I was compelled to produc...
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Free to Be Children
How to combat the tragedy of child sexual abuse
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Call made for action to stop creating child sex abusers
Robyn Salisbury, author of Free to Be Children, talked to Janine Rankin at Stuff about why it’s time for specialists, parents, educators and all Ne...
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What can we do to combat child abuse?
Robyn Salisbury, editor of Free to Be Children, talks to the Newshub team about the complex issues surrounding harmful sexual behaviour and the nee...
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is a freelance journalist, administrator and event manager.
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Layne Waerea
Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and educator.
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Lucy O’Hagan
Lucy O’Hagan has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years.
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan discusses Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with editors Alie Benge, Lil O’Bri...
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Otherhood reviewed on Capsule
Capsule talks to the editors behind the new essay book, Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree & Child Adjacent about expanding the co...
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Ziggle! reviewed on the Poetry Box
Len Lye (1901 – 1980) was an artist who loved making paintings, movies, sculptures, photographs without a camera, poems. He loved EXPERIMENTING and...
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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To the Summit
An inspirational story of determination and grit
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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Invisible
Migration and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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Against the Odds reviewed in Kete Books
Himali McInnes reviews Against the Odds by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway for Kete Books: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the sam...
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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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Tania Mace
Tania Mace is a freelance historian with a Master of Arts with honours in history.
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Anna Dickson
Dr Anna Dickson is a New Zealand freelance writer and editor.
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Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is an author, editor and book reviewer.
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Jessica Hutchings
Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) is a senior kaupapa Māori research leader, author, activist and Hua Parakore grower.
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Jo Smith
Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Māori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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Karen Denyer
Karen Denyer, MSc, Dip Envt Mgt, is the Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust (NWT) and a freelance ecologist.
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Lil O’Brien
Lil O’Brien (she/her) is the author of Not That I’d Kiss a Girl (2020), a beloved Kiwi memoir about coming out during her years at Otago University, among other things.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Monica Peters
Monica Peters works freelance at the interface between science, conservation and the public.
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Noel O'Hare
Noel O’Hare is a freelance journalist, columnist, blogger and author.
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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Grid reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Crackle! Cra...
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10 Questions with Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi
Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry being published for younger readers. Original, conte...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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Hastings reviewed in 03 Magazine
Neville Templeton reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for 03 Magazine: ‘Acclaimed NZ painter Dick Frizzell has written his mem...
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The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler: ReadingRoom’s Book of the Week
Sally Blundell reviews Mary Kisler’s book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — A daughter's tale for ReadingRoom: ‘On a tattered Red Cross map, four near...
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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Five Questions for James Hollings
Compiling A Moral Truth would have required its own kind of investigation, tracking down the articles you include. How did you choose them? There w...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West by Tania Mace
Lyn Potter from NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace: 'The Near West is a fascinatin...
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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Recorder
Sylvia Martin reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Recorder: ‘Mark Derby’s biography of Dr Doug J...
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Read an extract from Fire & Ice
CHAPTER 11 The legend of the Haunted Whare A small shack near Tawhai Falls below the Chateau was reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman searchin...
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Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
This book is about three adjoining Auckland suburbs — Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere — and the people who have lived here. As in all suburbs, th...
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10 Questions with Damien Wilkins
Q1: A YA novel! What’s the story here? I have no idea! At no point did I think ‘I must write a YA novel’. I’d always wanted to write about the Gate...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: What stands out most for you about this book? The range and quality of the photographs we were able to find: from a Nazi victory parade in Wars...
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
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Fire & Ice is ReadingRoom's book of the week
Steve Braunias reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for ReadingRoom: ‘The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen...
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Read an extract from Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand
Kuriheka A winding country road from Maheno, southwest of Ōamaru in north Otago, leads to the magnificent Kuriheka woolshed. Kuriheka was originall...
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10 Questions with Jenny Gillam
Q1: Your images document a unique wānanga in the north, in which women came together to learn how to pelt kiwi for their feathers for weaving. The...
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10 Questions with Lana McCarthy, Andy Martin and Geoff Watson
Q1: Netball is hugely popular in New Zealand. What is it that has made it such a favourite of New Zealand girls and women? AM: Traditionally netbal...
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10 Question Q&A with Chris Thom
Q1: You are an architect with a busy day job and you probably had some idea of how huge the job of researching a history of health design in New Ze...
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Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
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Two launch events for The Journal of Urgent Writing
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017. Editor Simon Wilson will be joined by Auckland-based contributors Gilbert Wo...
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Massey Press authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to announce that four Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, taking place from 15–20 M...
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood’s fascinating new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed on Stuff by Philip Mat...
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You Are Here reviewed in Otago Daily Times
Jessie Neilson reviews You Are Here for Otago Daily Times: ‘You Are Here, the sixth of Massey University Press' kōrero series, places the individu...
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The Crewe Murders co-author Kirsty Johnston profiled in Taranaki Daily News
‘A former Taranaki Daily News reporter has co-written a book on one of New Zealand’s most fascinating cold case. Kirsty Johnston, who now works for...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed for NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter for NZ Booklovers: ‘For over half a century, the Poetry Aotearoa Year...
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Country calendar: Woolsheds, in Newsroom
Steve Braunias reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for ReadingRoom: ‘Milki...
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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Waiheke Weekender: ‘As global supply chains becom...
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David Hill reviews The Front Line
‘What are the great war photos? Alexander Gardner’s rag bundles of Confederate dead after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. Capra’s Republican infantrym...
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Skinny Dip reviewed in AKO journal
Janice Jones has reviewed Massey University Press poetry collection Skinny Dip, edited by Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi, for AKO journal. Jones say...
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Raiment reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
A review of Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment has been published in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘Jan Kemp emerged as a leading young New Zealand poet in the ‘70...
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Read a review of Raiment on takahē
Elizabeth Heritage has reviewed Raiment: A memoir by Jan Kemp for takahē. She writes: ‘Poet Jan Kemp has released the first volume of her memoir, R...
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Vaughan Rapatahana analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Read a Poem
Vaughan Rapatahana, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Re...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed for NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Ian McGibbon’s New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for National Business Review. He writes: ‘Prime Minister Jacinda...
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Back on the Road with Robin Morrison
Connie Brown reviews The South Island of New Zealand: From the Road by Robin Morrison for Art News Aotearoa, delighting in the return of this class...
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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson has been reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. It’s the fifth in the kōrero series edited b...
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Read an interview with Little Doomsdays authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Wellington City Library has interviewed authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson about their recent publication Little Doomsdays: These ‘kōrero series’ pro...
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Greg Fleming reviews The Crewe Murders on Kete
Greg Fleming has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings on Kete: ‘The 1970...
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Read an interview with Floor van Lierop, designer of Ans Westra: A life in photography
Kete Books interviews Floor van Lierop, book designer, about her work on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Floor, hi! Can you tell u...
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Mark Adams reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Booklovers: ‘Mark Adams: A Survey /He Kohinga...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Dan Eady reviews The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings: 'The 1970 killing of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmho...
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Read an extract from You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
What is it that stops you now? Is it the possibility of failure? You’ve survived failure many times before, so whywould this be different? Perhaps...
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10 Questions with Steve Chadwick
1. Now that the book is finished, are you happy with it? Yes, very pleased. It has turned out better than I expected. 2. What were you looking fo...
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10 Questions with Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
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Newsroom runs an extract from ‘the superb new memoir Raiment by Jan Kemp’
Newsroom has run an extract from Jan Kemp’s ‘superb new memoir’, Raiment. ‘In English I, our lectures included An Introduction to Shakespeare by Ma...
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10 Questions with Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
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10 Question Q&A with Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
Q1: What was your reaction when series editor Lloyd Jones approached you to see whether you were keen to create the sixth book in the kōrero series...
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
Q1: Your Waikato childhood must have seemed so far away and so long ago when you sat down to write about it in Germany. How hard was it to tap into...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
Peter Bale has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, in North & South: Breakfast: Our Most Diplomatic Meal...
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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Ten questions with Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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Ten questions with Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Q1: These ‘kōrero series’ projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Ten Question Q&A with Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
Q1: You’ve both published in this kai sovereignty/Indigenous food systems space before. What did you specifically want this book to do? JS: The boo...
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Freedom and tragedy in exile: The story of Charles Mackay
As an exiled newspaper correspondent living in Berlin almost a century ago, Charles Mackay found freedom — and a tragic death — on the streets of N...
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Remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen Kós at the launch of From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen Launch remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen KósPresident of the Court of Appeal and former Pro-Chancellor of...
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10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
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Ten Question Q&A with Felicity Jones and Mark Smith
Q1: When did you first learn about the Wardian Case and its enabling of the transportation of live plants across continents and indeed hemispheres?...
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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith talks to RNZ’s Lynn Freeman
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, editor of Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, talked to Lynn Freeman about her research into t...
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August to April: The gestation of Massey University Press
In late August 2015, Massey University Press began with a single employee: respected former Random House New Zealand publishing director Nicola Leg...
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about National Security: Challenges, Trends and Issues? We really like the cover. We tried to use...
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The Poetic Landscape of Aotearoa 2017
Listen to Jack Ross talking with RNZ’s Lynn Freeman about putting together the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 here.
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Home: New Writing in the news
Home: New Writing edited by Thom Conroy was launched at Unity Books Wellington on Thursday 13 July. This collection features essays from twenty-two...
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10 Questions with Anna Rogers
1. How does it feel now that With Them Through Hell has gone to print? A mixture of relief and slight anxiety that I’ve done a good job, but more o...
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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
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Gretchen Albrecht launch at Auckland Art Gallery
Join us at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki on Tuesday, 9 April to launch Gretchen Albrecht: between gesture and geometry. Gretchen Albrecht C...
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Read an excerpt from High Wire
HIGH WIRE LLOYD JONES EUAN MACLEOD I’d written to Euan Macleod proposing a project about bridges. He replied enthusiastically — and, over t...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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Barbara Sumner in conversation with her daughter Bonnie Sumner
Bonnie Sumner: You’ve been writing since you were young – you were once an award-winning columnist – and now you’re completing your masters at Vict...
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10 Questions with Nigel Robson
Q1: Has the South African War 1899-1902 been overlooked in our history? While the war itself has not been overlooked, it has long existed in the sh...
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Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...
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Phillida Bunkle reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Phillida Bunkle reviews Sue Kedgley‘s memoir Fifty Years a Feminist for Newsroom. ‘Sue Kedgley has earned her uncontested place as one of New Zeal...
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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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Ta Mark Solomon on Maori Television
Ta Mark Solomon’s memoir Mana Whakatipu was featured on Te Ao, Maori Television's news bulletin: ‘Everyone has an opinion about Covid-19 and Tā Mar...
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10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
Q1: These 'kōrero series' projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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Steven Loveridge reviews The Front Line in the New Zealand Journal of History
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper with Susan Lemish has been reviewed by Steven Loveridge in the New...
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Fifty Years a Feminist reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist has been reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. In the latest...
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Standing Room Only talks with authors about Bordering on Miraculous
Author Lynley Edmeades and artist Saskia Leek recently talked with Lynn Freeman on Standing Room Only about their book Bordering on Miraculous, the...
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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
Steve Braunias from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp. ‘We think of Rosemary McLeod, rightly, as one of New Zealand's great prose...
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David Herkt reviews Downfall for Kete
An excellent review of Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has appeared on Kete. David Herkt writes: ‘The death of a New Zea...
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Victor Rodger reviews Downfall on The Spinoff
Paul Diamond’s latest book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been reviewed on The Spinoff. Victor Rodger writes: ‘A closeted mayor wi...
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
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Encountering China reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Bolin Hu reviews Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell: ENCOUNTERING CHINA...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
Q1: The first-ever social history of mental depression in New Zealand . . . what drew you to this topic? It comes from my long-term research, tea...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The Fo...
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State of Threat reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's national security edited by Wil Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald in...
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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Shock and awe: The ‘harsh, dangerous’ reality of wartime surgery
A new book, Frontline Surgeon, tells the story of Kiwi Doug Jolly, one of the most influential and highly-regarded war surgeons of the 20th century...
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Eat Pacific author Robert Oliver interviewed in E-Tangata
Teuila Fuatai interviews Robert Oliver, the author of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook for E-Tangata: ‘Chef Robert Oliver h...
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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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Hastings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for NZ Booklovers: ‘Dick Frizzell’s Hastings is a warm, nostalgic, and often h...
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Short | Poto reviewed by Mary-Anne Stone
Mary-Anne Stone of Bookenz reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong: ‘Short/Poto is a bilingual anthology of 100 flash f...