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RNZ reviews Sing New Zealand
Clarissa Dunn reviews Sing New Zealand: The story of choral music in Aotearoa by Guy E. Jansen on Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan. Listen to it on R...
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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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Guy Jansen
In 2011 the late Dr Guy Jansen (1935–2019) was awarded a MNZM for services to music. He was a renowned music educator and choral musician, and in 1979 founded the New Zealand Youth Choir — reputed to be the first national youth choir in the world.
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10 Questions with Adrienne Jansen
Q1: Taking over another writer’s book is not an easy task. Which aspect did you find most challenging? I’d been working with Guy intensively on thi...
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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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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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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Pamela Morrow has reviewed A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle...
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Steve Braunias reviewed the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Steve Braunias has written an excellent and comprehensive review on Newsroom of the newly republished The South Island of New Zealand — From the Ro...
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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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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Sally Blundell reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Islington, London. On a bright autumn da...
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For King and Other Countries
The untold story of the New Zealanders who fought the Great War under other flags
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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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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017? I think the thing I like best about it is the number of y...
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell
1. You teach the history of New Zealand in the interwar period – what drew you to it? It was such a revolutionary time in our history – the start,...
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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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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Public History
Emma Jean-Kelly reviews Old Black Cloud: A culture history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealand Journal of Public History:...
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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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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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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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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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In the temple reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall’s most recent collaboration, in the temple, has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on New Zealand Arts...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
1. How did you arrive at the idea of this book? I thought about writing a textbook on New Zealand religious history, and it seemed to me a very du...
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira
The battle for Māori land and livelihoods
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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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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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Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
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Read an extract from Health Design
3 Colonisation and conflict1852–1870 ‘AS FIGHTING CONTINUED IN THE NORTH ISLAND, a lack of conflict and the discovery of gold in Otago in 1861 and...
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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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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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Publish with us
Massey University Press welcomes proposals from both Massey researchers and authors outside the university that fit our publishing programme, which...
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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Jan Kemp
Jan Kemp MNZM is a poet and short fiction writer.
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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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Tracey Slaughter
Dr Tracey Slaughter teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato. She is also an award-winning poet and short story writer.
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Patrick Shepherd
Patrick Shepherd was an honorary Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2003/04, and in 2016 he visited the continent again as a tutor with a group of postgraduate students from the University of Canterbury, where he is a senior lecturer.
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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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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Hard by the Cloud House: Book of the week on Newsroom
Ashleigh Young reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Newsroom: ‘“Show us the bird,” I found myself muttering at times while reading H...
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Chris Thom
Chris Thom is an Auckland architect who specialises in health design. He is a Principal at Chow:Hill Architects, where he has worked on hospitals and mental health units across New Zealand.
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10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
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10 Questions with Michael Keith and Chris Szekely
Q1: This book is the closing act of a couple of years of celebration of Alexander Turnbull’s life and his great gift to the nation of. Since he gav...
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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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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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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 Questions with Matt McEvoy
Q1: This is your second book, and so you did know before you began that being an author is not the easiest gig in town. Why did you decide to do it...
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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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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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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: When did you first come across this remarkable map, with its detailed drawings of verandahs, sheds, street lights, street levels, construction...
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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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Shining Land reviewed by Sarah Shieff, ANZL
Sarah Shieff reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima on the Academy of New Zealand Literature Te Whare Mātā...
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Short | Poto reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for NZ Booklovers: ‘Short | Poto: The Big Book of Small Stories – It...
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Te Kupenga one of Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books
Eleanor Black has included Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull in Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books: ‘A handwritten account of Hēn...
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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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Extraordinary tales of WWI flying live up to hyperbole in book’s subtitle
Alister Browne reviews Fearless at stuff.co.nz: ‘This handsome volume, the latest in the centenary history programme series, amply lives up to the...
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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
Q1: What is the greatest threat to New Zealand’s security? WH & DM: Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest threats to the security...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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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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Jessie Neilson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Jessie Nielson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley: ‘Sue Kedgley has been involved in activism both in New Zealand and overseas for half...
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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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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
Q1: Why Palmerston North? What prompted you to see this book in print? GW: It has been nearly 50 years since Petersen’s centennial history of Palme...
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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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10 Questions with Peter Walker, author of Hard by the Cloud House
Q1: This your fourth book and it ranges far and wide. Where did the idea for it first take seed? I was reading a newspaper one day and saw a story...
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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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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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Ten questions with Colin Monteath
Q1: You’ve visited Antarctica many times as a mountaineer and a photographer, as well as working at Scott Base. What was your role there? As the Fi...
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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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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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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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in The Aero Historian
Errol W. Martyn reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for The Aero Historian: ‘Grid was a...
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Extract from Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
In Sally Gordon’s inner city villa in Auckland, the central hallway is lined with photographs of four generations of her family. Among them are two...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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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 Cynthia Farquhar
Q1: In your introduction you describe how thinking about your mother’s difficult experience at the Otago Medical School in the late 1940s, and in t...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: After working your way through the history of Western art for your last book, was it a relief to look up at the sun and the stars? Not so much...
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Ten Question Q&A with Roger Buckton
Q1: You lived in Pūhoi for a time. Is this where your interest in the community’s unique music and dances began? I knew of the music and dance prio...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed (and recommended!) in the Read NZ newsletter
Chris Reed has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too in the latest Read NZ Te Pou Muramura...
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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 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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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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Fresh perspectives on experiences of WWI
The First World War has been thoroughly documented over the past 100 years. But there is scope for deeper understandings of New Zealanders’ experie...
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A Meeting of Cultures
World War I is widely perceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors and elites pushed naive young...
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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 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: After the success of A Walking Guide to Auckland Architecture and A Walking Guide to Christchurch Architecture, Wellington must have seemed ine...
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On We Go review on Volume NZ
On We Go is a beautiful book, in design and content. This collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle is a whimsical dreamsc...
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Rooms reviewed in HOME magazine
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s newest book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors in HOME: ‘People with...
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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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10 Questions with Anne Ridler
1. How long have you had an association with this somewhat venerable book? Dave and Neil wrote the first edition together and I helped revise the s...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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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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10 Questions with Keith Ovenden
Q1: Your book has gone off to print. A good moment? More than a moment surely. Some simple things — a chance to tidy a very untidy desk, put away r...
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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Chris Price
Chris Price is an author and is the convenor of the MA workshop in poetry and creative non-fiction at the IIML.
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Poetry Box reviews Hazel and the Snails
Paula Green at Poetry Box reviews Hazel and the Snails. ‘Nan’s book is snail paced and that is a very good thing because when you read at the pace...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Lobster’s Tale
‘The Lobster’s Tale by Chris Price and Bruce Foster is less of a story or narrative and more of a beautiful exploration of life, love, and physiolo...
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Read an extract from Short | Poto
Claudia Jardine A gift to their daughters ‘Textile manufacture’ is the sound my mother makes when she tries to speak with a needle held between he...
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For King and Other Countries launch details
Join us to celebrate the launch of For King and Other Countries by Glyn Harper. New Zealand’s military contribution to the First World War was a ma...
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Ten questions with Jane Sayle and Catherine Bagnall
Q1: Your gorgeous previous collaboration, On We Go, was published in 2021. When did you decide to work together again on another one? On We Go was...
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ANZL reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Ian Wedde has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones. ‘At firs...
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Tūmahi Māori reviewed in Manawatū Standard
George Heagney talks to Hone Waengarangi Morris, author of Tūmahi Māori for Manawatū Standard: ‘A Manawatū academic has published a new book to re...
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10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
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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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Tree Sense reviewed on RNZ
Tree Sense is a collection of essays, art and poetry by artists, activists, ecologists and advocates — including Philip Simpson, Anne Noble, Elizab...
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Agency of Hope named best cover at the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Agency of Hope has won the award for Best Cover at the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards. Judges’ comments: A difficult...
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Herbst: Architecture in context reviewed in Architecture Now
Sean Flanagan reviews Herbst: Architecture in context by John Walsh for Architecture Now: ‘Recently published by Massey University Press, the book...