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Mark Adams interviewed on Bookenz
Mark Adams talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua. You can listen to the episode here.
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Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua reviewed in NZ Listener
Linda Herrick reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Listener: '"Gaze upon these works spread ou...
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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Geographic
Catherine Woulfe reviews Mark Adams: A survey — He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Geographic: ‘Mark Adams was always, in his words, “the white boy in th...
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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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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Arts Review: ‘The current exhibition “Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohing...
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Mark Adams clocks up 50 years of undoing ‘othering’ in Aotearoa
Sapeer Mayron interviews Mark Adams about his work and new book Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for Sunday Star-Times: ‘The acclaimed p...
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Read an extract from Mark Adams: A survey by Sarah Farrar
Read and see the extract here.
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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Mark Adams
Mark Adams is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished photographers whose work is held in major institutions in New Zealand and abroad.
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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Mark Amery
Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Ta Mark Solomon on Q+A
Ta Mark Solomon talks settlement, frustrations, legacy and being the gravedigger for his whanau. Watch the video on TVNZ here.
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Mark Solomon
Tā Mark Wiremu Solomon KNZM, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī, served as kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of Ngāi Tahu, for 18 years.
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Mark Smith
Mark Smith has been making photographs since the late 1970s. His work has appeared in many national and international publications, as well as in galleries.
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Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
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Mark Henrickson
Mark Henrickson is Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University in Auckland, and for many years he worked in HIV-related health and mental healthcare.
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Mark Derby
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian.
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...
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Mana Whakatipu
The compelling memoir of a Māori leader
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Mark Derby interviewed on Magic Talk
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Andrew Whiteside interviews Mark Beehre
Andrew Whiteside interviews Mark Beehre about his new book A Queer Existence. Listen to the interview here.
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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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Ta Mark Solomon on Nine to Noon
Tā Mark Solomon spent 18-years at the helm of Ngāi Tahu. He was elected to the role in 1998 just as the iwi was about to sign its $170 million hist...
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Mark Derby introduces Rock College
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Mark Derby talks to RNZ’s Emile Donovan
There are countless remarkable people who have shaped the world around us whose names would be totally unfamiliar to us. Wellington-based writer Ma...
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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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Frontline Surgeon author Mark Derby talks to Emile Donovan on RNZ
Emile Donovan interviews Mark Derby, author of Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly, for RNZ’s Nights: ‘There are countless...
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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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Urgent Moments' Mark Avery interviewed on Te Pae
Andrew Armitage talks to Mark Amery and fellow Paekakarki artists Vanessa Crowe and Tim Barlow on community radio show Te Pae, about Urgent Moments...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
Q1: You would have come across Doug Jolly while working on your 2009 book Kiwi Campaneros, about the New Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil...
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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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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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Huhana Smith talks to Mark Amery on RNZ
Huhana Smith, one of the key profiles in new book Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri,...
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Martin Edmond talks to RNZ’s Mark Amery
Acclaimed writer Martin Edmond did his Christmas shopping in Whanganui as a child, travelling down the river from Ohakune where he was raised. They...
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Case Studies
A beautiful book for all who love plants and their stories
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Dr Mark Stocker’s launch speech for Me, According to the History of Art
Me, According to the History of Art was launched in Auckland on 29 October 2020 by Dr Mark Stocker. Tēnā koutou katoa! As the person who claims chi...
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Rewi authors Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake speak to Mark Amery on Culture 101
Authors of the major publication Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, along with Rewi Thompson's daughter Lucy, recently spoke to...
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Mana Whakatipu for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Mana Whakatipu for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘Tā Mark’s book, which you might think would be filled with serious stuff about st...
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Rock College wins the non-fiction category of the 2021 New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards
Congratulations to Mark Derby, whose book Rock College: A unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison, has won the non-fiction category of the 2021 New...
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Ingenio reviews A Queer Existence
Janet McAllister reviews A Queer Existence for Ingenio: 'It was a chance encounter a decade ago with the late, great art historian Professor Jonath...
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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A brilliant war surgeon,...
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in SOUTH magazine
Gavin Bertram reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for SOUTH magazine: ‘Doug Jolly’s ideas largely...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Landfall Review Online
Eric Trump reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Landfall Review Online: ‘‘It is well that war is...
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David Herkt reviews A Queer Existence
‘The 27 young gay men in Mark Beehre’s square-format photographs look out upon us from a position of almost preternatural stillness. They might be...
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Book launch brings hero’s tale to light
Medals and mayoral chains were on show to honour the "coming home" of one of Cromwell’s own last week. The official launch of Wellington author Mar...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Otago Daily Times
Mike Houlahan reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Otago Daily Times: ‘A few decades ago, hit Ame...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in New Zealand International Review
Roderic Alley reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for New Zealand International Review: ‘Born in Cro...
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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 Frontline Surgeon in the Otago Daily Times
A new book by Mark Derby tells the remarkable story of Cromwell-raised surgeon Doug Jolly. The following extract describes his work during in the S...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Health and History
Neil Pollock reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Health and History: ‘This is a superbly written...
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Massey University Press
Massey University Press publishes award-winning books across a range of genres. Our list includes history, design, art, biography and memoir, agric...
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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Local Tools for Global Change
Research papers informed by the UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, and based on using local tools to effect global change
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Urgent Moments co-editors interviewed on 95bFM
95bFM host Frances Chan speaks to two of the three co-editors, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, about their new book Urgent Moments: Art and social ch...
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Urgent Moments’ Amber Clausner interviewed on RNZ
One of the co-editors of Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 by Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram and Amber Clausne...
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Haru Sameshima
Haru Sameshima completed an MFA (1995) at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and has exhibited and published widely in New Zealand.
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The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
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Urgent Moments reviewed on Kete
Graham Reid has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber...
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
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Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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Read an extract of Mana Whakatipu on E-Tangata
Big day out In the beginning, I was tongue-tied and terrified. I had been a member of the Ngāi Tahu council — what we call “the table” — for three...
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An excerpt from Rock College
‘From late 1962 the "back basement" housed a national celebrity, perhaps the best known and most widely admired criminal figure in this country's h...
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Zak Holland reviews A Queer Existence
Zak Holland reviews A Queer Existence for Tui Motu: ‘A Queer Existence is an important, impactful and emotional book. If you’re not familiar with...
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Anne Noble
Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most widely respected contemporary photographers.
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Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones has led a wide-ranging creative life as a musician, gardener and botanical artist.
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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Aspiring
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all
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Finding Frances Hodgkins
A fresh new look at where, when and why Frances Hodgkins painted some of her best-known works
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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It Takes a Village
Where to go in one of New Zealand’s charming visitor hot-spots
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New Zealand Between the Wars ebook
Examining New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years, when the foundation for a new nation was laid
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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Wild Honey
A comprehensive guide to poetry by New Zealand women poets written by poetry champion Paula Green
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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Andrea Bennett
Andrea Bennett (BSc Hons, MBS, DipBusStud, DipTeaching) is a former lecturer in finance at Massey University.
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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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Carolyn Wirth
Carolyn Wirth holds a PhD in Finance from Massey University and her current research investigates the corporate financial implications of country-level environmental regulatory stringency.
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Claire Robinson
Claire Robinson is Professor of Communication Design and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.
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Rae Cooper
Rae Cooper AO is a professor of gender, work and employment relations at the University of Sydney Business School
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Susan Paris
Susan Paris has twenty years’ experience in publishing. She has edited the School Journal for fifteen years, producing more than fifty Journals.
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Geographic
Rachel Morris reviews Michael Belgrave's new book Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand for New Zealand Geographic: ‘Any attempt to expla...
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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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The Unsettled reviewed on Landfall
Rowan Light reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw: ‘Aotearoa New Zealand, like the Arthurian setting of Kazuo Ishigu...
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Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
PART ONE: 1970–91 SETTING THE SCENE IN THE 1970S If, on 2 April 1971, you had journeyed out across the unsealed metal roads to the west coast of th...
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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
An extract from Richard Shaw's upcoming book The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation: We also stir up emotions when we begin rummaging aroun...
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Tracey Slaughter interviewed for Culture 101
Culture 101’s Mark Amery interviews Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024. You can listen to the full interview here.
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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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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Jordan Hamel reviews Felt
‘One of this collection’s strengths is its ability to give Emeney’s stories room to breathe. The poet and publisher seem to understand where the re...
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Rebooting the Regions in the press
Rebooting the Regions has been getting fantastic coverage across the media. Russel Blackstock writes in the Herald on Sunday about how our smaller...
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Ferns and why we need a public art registry
Senior adviser at Massey's College of Creative Arts and Chair of the Wellington Sculpture Trust Sue Elliott talks to Mark Amery from RNZ's Standing...
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Poetry alive and in progress
Laine Moger at Stuff.co.nz reports back from the launch of the 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: ‘A collection of new poetry has been metaphoricall...
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The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road appears in Kia Ora Magazine
Kia Ora magazine has published a small review of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road by Robin Morrison celebrating the new edition of t...
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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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Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star
Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star for Kete: ‘Dick Frizzell is a popular and accomplished painter, print-maker and something of an art histor...
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Katūīvei reviewed on Kete
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Kete: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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Sam Brooks reviews HomeGround on the Spinoff
HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson was reviewed on the Spinoff in January. Sam Brooks writes: ‘I see HomeGround...
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Read an extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
avalancheBy Mark Prisco iwhen you name something you demystify it, break taboo.even ‘Tiger’ is emasculate compared to what it is.in this way, too,...
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10 Questions with Ken Downie
Q1: Where did the idea of this book come from? This is one of the many book ideas I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. It’s sort of an homag...
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Proof: Two decades of printmaking reviewed on Kete
Proof: Two decades of printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand has been reviewed on Kete. Peter Simpson says: ‘These are times when, on th...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Geographic
In the seaside suburb of Kohimarama, Auckland, there’s a house that rises from the trees around it like an ancient Mayan temple: a giant stone-step...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua for New Zealand Arts Review
Anyone who has attended the ceremonies around the annual Waitangi Day commemorations will have seen the massive waka Ngātokimatawhaorua which is la...
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: Just how much fun was it making this amazing book? Well … it was fun ... and then it wasn’t … and then it was … and then it wasn’t … and then i...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2022. How many poems were submitted? The submission screen went on for mil...
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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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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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Matariki Williams reviews Rewi on The Spinoff
Matariki Williams has given an excellent review of Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen on The Spinoff: ‘“Rewi” scrawled in dis...
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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Ten Question Q&A with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: One hundred and forty-one new poems by 127 poets. This must be one of the biggest editions yet! How on earth do you make the reading and select...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Your book has just gone to print. Pleased with it? Well, you can never be really certain about a book until it is printed — but, yes, I think the b...
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HomeGround reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Bill McKay has reviewed Simon Wilson’s HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives in Architecture New Zealand: ‘Auckland City Mission’s...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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Ten Question Q&A with Martin Edmond
Q1: You grew up in Ohakune and at the start of this book you write about coming to Whanganui when you were a child, in the early 1960s. Clearly the...
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell, co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground
Now that it is published, what pleases you most about The Treaty on the Ground? For me it’s the variety of contributors and their experiences. This...
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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
1. What was the motivation for writing this book? Over the past decade several of our longstanding and former staff members who held the oral histo...
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Tessa Duder’s speech from The Writing Life launch
The Writing Life – launch held on 6 November 2018 at Auckland City Library. Speech given by Tessa Duder on behalf of the twelve authors featured in...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Jack Ross has passed on the torch and you are now the editor of the venerable Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Exciting? An exhilarating honour (an...
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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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Hazel Phillips’ Solo a ‘riveting read’
Carolyn Enting has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, the new book by Hazel Phillips on her three years’ adventuring i...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2023. How many poems were submitted? Once again, well over a thousand. Oft...
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Read a review and extract of HomeGround on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson. ‘For many years the crowds milling outside...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Mark Southcombe reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for Architecture New Zealand: ‘Whanganui is close...
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Grid reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Neill Atkinson reviews Adam Claasen’s Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘...
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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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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Peter Walker's latest novel Hard by the Cloud House for Waiheke Weekender: ‘There is much to love about this book, which is...
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Ten Question Q&A with Mary Kisler
Q1: Your book starts with a lengthy dedication to other children of prisoners of war. Why did you want to do this? Very few returned prisoners of w...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Bronwyn Labrum reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A biography by Martin Edmond for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘AS THE DIRECTOR of the...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Tony Ballantyne reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘RESPONDING TO WHA...
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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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Read an extract from After Winter Comes the Summer
The origins of the music Although the settlers at Pūhoi came from the historic country of Bohemia (a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subseque...
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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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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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10 questions with Andrea Bennett, Jenny Parry and Carolyn Wirth
1. Now that it’s been published, what pleases you most about the Fundamentals of Finance? That it is much improved and up-to-date. 2. It’s been m...
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An extract from From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
Chapter 4 The College Finds its Feet After such a long and troubled pre-history, the agricultural college opened with a burst of enthusiasm and ene...
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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 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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10 Questions with Thom Conroy
1. When you first started thinking about this collection, what was your hope for it? What I wanted from Home was to be surprised — to be shown new...
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10 Questions with Adam Claasen
1. Is this a book you’ve long been wanting to write? I actually had plans for something completely different until I was made aware that the peopl...
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Rachael Bell talks to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Social historian Rachael Bell talks about her new book, which examines New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years when many believe the foundation for a...
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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
Massey University Press is excited to be joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become the Press’s new...
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Unsung heroes: The medics of World War I
The New Zealand Herald features Anna Rogers’ book on the New Zealand medical personal who served in the Great War: Thousands of New Zealand men wen...
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'A run of bad luck' – How Kiwi soldiers described their wounds
Read an extract from With Them Through Hell on the New Zealand WW100 website: The more sophisticated and powerful weapons used during the First Wor...
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Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts & Spies, by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou...
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: Jack Ross invited you to be the guest editor of the 2020 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Terrifying? Or a great opportunity? Dame Chri...
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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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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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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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Read an extract from Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘I was fascinated when, aged seven, I first saw my father weaving a kete. He would throw the kete behind him as soon as he saw me. As I was fair sk...
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
Q1: The subject is a wide-ranging one and the book covers a lot of ground. Who do you see as the target reader? The target readers are high schoo...
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10 Questions with Susette Goldsmith
Q1: Had editing this sort of book, one that argues for trees, been on your mind for quite some time? Yes. My research interest is natural heritage...
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10 Questions with Lauraine Jabobs
Q1: It’s been 13 years since your last book on the Matakana region was published. What made you want to write a new version of it? The development...
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10 Questions with Rachel Haydon and Pippa Keel
Q1: What were the challenges and opportunities in basing the story around the real penguins at the National Aquarium? Rachel Haydon: The kororā, or...
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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
It is difficult to believe that this was, that this is, New Zealand. In December, 1925, the White New Zealand League held its first meeting in the...
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48 Hours in Matakana
Less than an hour’s drive from Auckland, Matakana is the ideal region to escape to for a weekend where the focus is on well-being to recharge body...
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Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom
Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom: ‘Anyone with an Indian passport resident in New Zealand would be familiar with one absurdity t...
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Paul Diamond reviews 30 Queer Lives for Nine to Noon
Paul Diamond has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon. He says, ‘this book 30 Q...
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The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
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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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10 questions with Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney
Q1: Why create a book for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations with China? The decision taken in December 1972 to establish diplomatic re...
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Encountering China reviewed on NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney. ‘Many reade...
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Toi Motu magazine reviews The RNZ Cookbook
Reviewer Ann Gilroy writes: ‘The RNZ Cookbook is a carefully chosen selection of recipes from those drooled over in Radio New Zealand programmes du...
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The RNZ Cookbook appears on The Spinoff’s great, late Christmas books guide
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and Kathy Paterson appeared...
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10 Questions with Jane Parker, Marian Baird, Noelle Donnelly, and Rae Cooper
Q1: This is a big topic. How did the project begin? The book traverses a range of themes with particular regard to globalisation, technological d...
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10 Questions with Natalia Martín and Nicholas Sneddon
Q1: Who do you see as the target reader? This book is a key text for students in the agricultural and animal sciences areas, as well as those invol...
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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea on NZ Booklovers: ‘In Soundings, Kennedy Warne celebrate...
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Guy Somerset reviews Shadow Worlds for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Guy Somerset has reviewed Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of...
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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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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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Deidre Brown reviews Rewi for Architecture NZ
Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that...
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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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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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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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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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10 Questions with Adam Claasen, author of Grid
Q1: Keith Caldwell was one of the stars of your last book, Fearless, about the New Zealand airmen who flew in the First World War. As you were fini...
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for Waiheke Weekender:...
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Massey News reviews Grid by Adam Claasen
Massey News reviews Adam Claasen’s new book Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell: ‘The highly-decorated Air Commo...
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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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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
Q1: At the start of this book you tell the reader about the urge you felt to write some sort of a history in the immediate wake of the mosque shoot...
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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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Kate de Goldi reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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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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‘Stories of historic shearing sheds warmly received’
David Watt reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Heritage New Zealand: ‘...
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Katūīvei reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature
Erin Mercer reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito fo...
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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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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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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You Are Here reviewed in NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Booklovers: ‘In You Are Here, Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin craft a deep...
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You Are Here reviewed in Kete
Jade Kake reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Kete: ‘'You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home: both the beginning and th...
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Read an extract from Against the Odds
MARGARET BARNETT CRUICKSHANK 1897 graduate — second woman medical graduate in New Zealand, first registered woman medical practitioner in New Zeala...
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Grid reviewed in New Zealand International Review
Bryan Couchman reviews Grid by Adam Claasen for New Zealand International Review: ‘The story of First World War fighter ace Air Commodore 'Grid' K...