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Andrew Paul Wood talks about Shadow Worlds on The Project
Andrew Paul Wood, author of Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand, talks on The Project NZ about seances, spells and...
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An interview with Shadow Worlds’ Fiona Pardington, Andrew Paul Wood and Megan van Staden
‘When one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading photographic artists provides an image for the cover of a book, it’s bound to be striking; when that bo...
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Andrew Paul Wood interviewed on Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood spoke to Rachael Comer for Stuff ahead of the launch of his book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealan...
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Paul Little reviews Shadow Worlds in North & South
Paul Little reviewed Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand in the July edition of North & South...
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Kim Hill interviews Andrew Paul Wood
Historians paint colonial New Zealanders as ‘smug bucolic hobbits’, but alternative spirituality was part of life for many in the nineteenth and ea...
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Watch Andrew Paul Wood on The Project NZ
Seances, spells and mystical visions – an author says early settlers in Aotearoa were getting up to all kinds of weird stuff behind closed doors....
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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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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Landfall
Jack Ross reviews Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood: ‘Whose attention would not be caught by t...
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Nicholas Reid reviews Shadow Worlds
Reviewer Nicholas Reid has written a detailed piece on Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand: ‘I’ll...
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Nova Religio
Ethan Doyle White reviews Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood for Nova Religio: ‘Back in 1993,...
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Kete Books reviews Shadow Worlds
‘In the 1970s, I went on a very specific book-buying bender and was soon adrift in a confusing confluence of esoteric knowledge and practices: Gurd...
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Graham Reid reviews Shadow Worlds on Kete
Andrew Paul Wood’s new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed by Graham Reid on Kete: ‘In the 19...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Shadow Worlds in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘A wond...
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Shadow Worlds: Author's exploration of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand
‘In a cafe in the Royal Arcade in downtown Timaru a group of enthusiastic residents settle in for a night of theosophical conversation. ‘It is Octo...
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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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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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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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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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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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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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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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10 Questions with Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Q1: The kaupapa behind the kōrero series is a writer and an artist in collaboration, creating a ‘picture book for grownups’. When series editor Llo...
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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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Paula Green reviews On We Go
Paula Green reviews On We Go for Poetry Shelf. ‘Artist Catherine Bagnall grew up between the bush and Wellington harbour’s eastern shore. She lectu...
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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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Shining Land named in Best Antipodean Photobooks 2020
‘The photographer and the writer have a shared purpose to track down the elusive Robyn Hyde. Elusive not because she was in hiding, to the contrary...
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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 The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
In 1985, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I took him to the hospital for surgery, and was allowed to sit with him before he was wheeled in...
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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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Sally Blundell reviews Shining Land
Sally Blundell reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde for Landfall Review Online: ‘The ghost of Robin Hyde shifts in the shadows of our histo...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed on The Sapling
Ziggle! is an accessible and fun book of art activities put together by Rebecca Fawkner. Rebecca was able to take the knowledge and skills of the t...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews On We Go
‘This collaboration between an artist and a poet, both raised near Wellington, is another beautiful hardcover book from Massey UniversityPress, in...
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Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast
Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Spinoff: ‘The Forgotten Coast is heartfelt, poetic; a pleasure to read. I really like Richard’...
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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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Ziggle! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Ziggle! The Len Lye activity book by Rebecca Fawkner has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers: ‘There are hours of creative fun to be had, for children...
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Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Giselle Byrnes reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Australian Historical Studies: ‘All histories refle...
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10 Questions with Louise Callan and Jake Morrison
Q1: So many people have Robin Morrison stories to tell. What’s your connection to Robin? LC: Robin was a colleague I worked with for a wide range o...
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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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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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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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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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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: First things first: the beautiful cover. Tell us the story of this adorable felt goat. Yes, isn’t she beautiful. Her name is Grethe, and she wa...
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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 Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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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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10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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Our First Foreign War review
‘If you like your history richly-layered then this is just the title for you, with the added bonus that it covers a part of the New Zealand story n...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2021 Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce that you can now read all the winning entries from the 2021 Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition here. The fir...
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10 Questions with Helen Beaglehole
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? The credit really should go to Wellington historian Gavin McLean. I had finished my book on a history o...
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Solo reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips has been reviewed in the Otago Daily Times. Reviewer David Barnes says: ‘P...
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Ten questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What drew you to write the story of this particular waka? Ngātokimatawhaorua is an iconic waka taua, and not just for its size. It is intrinsic...
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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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Alison Ballance reviews Erebus for Kete Books
In Greek mythology, Erebus was son of Chaos, and god of darkness and shadows. Erebus was also the former warship, captained by James Clark Ross, wh...
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Steve Braunias names two Massey University Press books best illustrated of 2023
Steve Braunias writes for Newsroom: 'The golden age of illustrated New Zealand books is right now. In a land as beautiful and good to look at as A...
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Becoming Aotearoa: Newsroom’s book of the week
Philip Matthews reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Newsroom’s book of the week: ‘Was the Christchurch...
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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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Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...