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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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Claire Massey talks to TVNZ’s Q&A programme
With the Earth’s population set to reach more than nine billion by the middle of the century, New Zealand has an opportunity to help meet the need...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. Now that it’s published, what delights you most about the first New Zealand Land & Food Annual? It’s an annual publication, so for as long a...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017 shortlisted for the Gourmand Awards
We are thrilled to announce that The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017 is among the list of finalists for the 2018 Gourmand Awards Cookbooks...
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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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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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017
The one-stop-shop for the latest smart agribusiness and agrifood thinking
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The Christmas Bundle — four great books at a super-sharp price
A bundle of books for Christmas giving A terrific Christmas offer to you from Massey University Press. Four of our best books from our first year o...
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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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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Media round up for Claire Robinson’s Promises Promises
It’s been a busy time for author Claire Robinson following the release of her book Promises Promises: Eighty years of wooing New Zealand voters. C...
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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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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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
PREFACE This book aims to give an overview of how Japanese language education in the tertiary sector in New Zealand is reshaping its delivery and d...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 in the press
Paula Green writes: ‘[Poetry New Zealand Yearbook] has just recieved a well-deserved makeover by Massey University Press. The new design is eye-cat...
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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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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
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New Zealand Geographic traces the making of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Geoff Chapple has written a story in New Zealand Geographic to celebrate the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road by Robi...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Listen to Claire Robinson on Nine to Noon
Listen to author Claire Robinson discuss her new book Promises Promises on RNZ's Nine to Noon.
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Jane Robertson's most recent book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on N...
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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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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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Creating New Synergies
An essential guide for teachers of Japanese in New Zealand
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Susannah Whaley reviews Shining Land
‘The book itself is beautifully made and filled with New Zealand landscapes, photographs of empty rooms, and views out windows, never people, and n...
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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10 Questions with Claire Robinson
Q1: There’s so much amazing visual material in this book. How did you amass it all? It wasn’t easy! Collecting, preserving, cataloguing and digitis...
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Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) is a member-run, national organisation that has been promoting contemporary fine art printmaking for over 20 years.
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Shining Land reviewed as book of the week for Newsroom
Redmer Yska names Shining Land book of the week in a moving review and discussion of Iris Wilkinson/ Robin Hyde’s life: ‘This sumptuous book, part...
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Launch event for Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Join Massey University Press and Poetry NZ to celebrate the launch of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, the newest issue of this country’s longest-...
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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NZ Booklovers reviews the South Island of New Zealand From the Road
Lyn Potter has reviewed Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road, which was republished this month in a new edition. She says...
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Promises Promises
A lively history of political advertising, from the first election of the modern era in 1938 to today
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The Fate of the Land reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Danny Keenan’s latest, The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era...
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South Island of New Zealand From the Road reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on the Poetry Shelf blog: ‘Road trips ta...
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Read an extract of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Louise Callan, former journalist and friend of Robin Morrison, writes an introductory essay to the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand —...
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New Press, New Website
Massey University Press’s swish new website went live on March 16.Designed by OpenLab and built by IT Effect, it showcases the Press’s growing list...
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The Writing Life and The New Zealand Horse included in the Unity Summer Newsletter
Unity Books Wellington has included two Massey University Press titles in their Summer 18/19 catalogue: The Writing Life (‘fruitful and fascinating...
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Entries now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition
Entries are now open in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition.*Send us your previously unpublished original poem and be in to...
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Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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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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Join us at the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 launch
We are thrilled to be launching the 2019 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, New Zealand's longest-running poetry magazine. Join us at Devonpor...
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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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Poetry Shelf reviews the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Paula Green at the Poetry Shelf blog has reviewed the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018: ‘More and more I witness clusters of poetry communities in...
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
Sophie van Waardenberg reviews the latest edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, edited by Tracey Slaughter: ‘Even for a poet, the offering of nea...
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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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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Otago Daily Times reviews The New Zealand Horse
Jim Sullivan at Otago Daily Times reviews The New Zealand Horse. ‘In a lifetime of photography I doubt if Jane Ussher has published a dud shot yet...
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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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Marae food sovereignty: Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Sunday Star-Times: ‘When Dr Jessica Hutchings begin...
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Lloyd Jones‘s launch speech for Shining Land
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde was launched in Auckland on 11 November 2020. Lloyd Jones had the following to say: Writing is an act of dis...
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Read the Stuff.co.nz article on New Zealand Between the Wars
Alistair Browne profiles New Zealand Between the Wars, edited by Rachael Bell. Read the full article here.
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The New New Zealand
A bold new book on population trends and the need to confront them
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 launch
On 14 March we celebrated the launch of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 at the Devonport Library. Poet Laureate Michele Leggott officially lau...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 reviewed on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, edited by Tracey Slaughter, for Kete. ‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 is a sub...
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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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Paul Diamond reviews The South Island of New Zealand from the Road on RNZ
Paul Diamond has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on Nine to Noon. You can listen to the...
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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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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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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 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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New Zealand National Security
New Zealand faces a range of serious security challenges in a globalised world — are we prepared for them?
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. Year 11 category winners: 1st: ‘275 Love Let...
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Three poems from Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Article magazine features three of the poems from the 2018 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Check them out here.
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Invisible
Migration and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 reviewed by Harry Ricketts
‘The new Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is, as usual, a poetic smorgasbord. First, a tranche of impressive work by the featured poet, Aimee-Jane Ander...
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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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Paula Green reviews the 2022 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Paula Green has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 for NZ Poetry Shelf. She writes: ‘Tracey Slaughter’s introduction sidesteps the traditio...
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2019
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2019 we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition 2019, judged by...
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 featured poet essa may ranapiri reads ‘my dream of a nonbinary prison’
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 featured poet essa may ranapiri reads ‘my dream of a nonbinary prison’. Read twenty-three more fantastic poems by...
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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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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Claire Mabey reviews The RNZ Cookbook on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
Claire Mabey has given a glowing review of The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers on Afte...
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
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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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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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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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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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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Living Between Land and Sea author Jane Robertson talks to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ
Author Jane Robertson spoke to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about her new book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbou...
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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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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Massey University
For more than 80 years, Massey University has helped to shape lives and communities in New Zealand and around the world. Its forward-thinking spiri...
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2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist announced
We are thrilled to have five books on the longlist for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. Congratulations to Peter Wells (De...
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Free to Be Children
How to combat the tragedy of child sexual abuse
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Kathy Waghorn has revewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, for Architecture New Zealand: As...
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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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Will to Win
Insights and revelations from some of the legends of New Zealand netball
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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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Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips
Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips about her new book Fire & Ice: After publishing Solo, about adventuring alone in Aotearoa New Zealand’...
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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Creating New Synergies in the press
Creating New Synergies has been getting coverage all over the country: Penny Shino talks to bFMs The Wire programme: http://95bfm.com/bcasts/interv...
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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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How Should We Live?
A guide to navigating the twenty-first century’s ethical minefields
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Grey Is a Feminist Issue — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Grey Is a Feminist Issue Claire Robinson 2015 was the year grey hair went mainstream. What started in the noughties as the street-fashion trend ‘...
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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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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition ebook
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Eat Pacific: These Books Explore How Deeply Food Matters To People And The World
Danielle Nierenberg writes for Forbes magazine: ‘The food system is about so much more than the food on our plates and in our bowls. Yes, I’m a ner...
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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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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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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Fifty Years a Feminist
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism
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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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Don Abbott reviews The Lobster’s Tale in Art New Zealand
Don Abbott, deputy editor of Art New Zealand, has reviewed The Lobster's Tale in the Summer ‘22 issue. ‘The cover of The Lobster’s Tale provides a...
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This Is New Zealand exhibition review
Fran Dibble reviews the recently opened exhibition This Is New Zealand at City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition features Bronwyn Holloway-Smith’s...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a major book exploring the work of the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) who was a groundbrea...
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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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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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Edith Collier: New Zealand modernist reviewed in Kete
Linda Herrick reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for Kete Books: ‘This is...
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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews High Wire
Ian Wedde has reviewed High Wire at the Academy of Zealand Literature Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa: ‘High Wire is the first picture book in the kōr...
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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Will Hansen has reviewed Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond: 'THE ‘WANGANUI SENSATION’ is a major event in New Zealand’s q...
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Manawatu Standard reviews Home: New Writing
A new collection of essays from New Zealand authors contemplates the concept of home. Carly Thomas had a read. Home is a word heavy with substance....
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The Unsettled reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Sam Iti Prendergast reviews Richard Shaw’s The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘FAMILY HISTORY often...
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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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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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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Lee Davidson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull ‘Once a year, I take my museum and heritage studies class to the A...
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Conversations About Indigenous Rights
A sharp assessment of how New Zealand is meeting its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, ten years on from its signing
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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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The Unsettled reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Paul Diamond reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Richard Shaw’s 2021 me...
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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The Near West reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Paul Moon reviews The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘OF THE DIFFEREN...
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The Forgotten Coast reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Georgina White has reviewed Richard Shaw’s memoir, The Forgotten Coast for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘This is an elegant, thought-provok...
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You Are Here reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larking for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Most stories have a beginning, a middle an...
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Agency of Hope reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Barbara Brookes has reviewed Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920–2020 by Peter Lineham for the New Zealand Journal of Histo...
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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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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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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
Peter Bale has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, in North & South: Breakfast: Our Most Diplomatic Meal...
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One Hundred Havens
A rich and complex story shaped by land and sea
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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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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Proof reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking on NZ Booklovers: ‘Proof, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PCANZ, the Print...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history appears in the Listener
Chris Moore has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History, edited by Ian McGibbon, in the New Zealand Listener this month. ‘While no book s...
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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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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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Tooth and Veil
The story of the young women charged with waging war on our nation’s poor teeth
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, was reviewed in North & South’s September book reviews. Paul Little says: ‘Th...
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The New Zealand Horse
A handsome book showing the horse in all its glory
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Health Design in New Zealand
One hundred and ninety years of hospital building history
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Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
The ‘Almost Legendary Wanganui Artist’. That description, by the then-director of the National Art Gallery Stewart MacLennan, was made in a 1956 re...
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New Zealand Arts Review of Soundings
‘It seems that it is only in the last fifty years that we have taken a new approach to the ocean and our fisheries. Only a few years ago the seas...
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Little Doomsdays: 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Finlay Macdonald et al. for The Conversation: ‘Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappoi...
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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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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Herald
Joan Rosier-Jones has reviewed this ‘long awaited’ history of Charles Mackay in the Whanganui Chronicle. She calls Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The Des...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in Heritage New Zealand
Anna Knox reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans for New Zealand Heritage magazine: ‘Ngātokimatawhaorua, the waka champi...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
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Diseases of Cattle in Australasia
The definitive and authoritative text on cattle diseases in New Zealand and Australia
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Massey University Press titles shortlisted in 2023 Booklovers Awards
Three Massey University Press titles have been shortlisted in the Booklovers Awards for 2023. HomeGround: The story of a building that changes live...
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Athol McCredie reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘THE DUTCH-BORN Ans Westra (1936–2023...
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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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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
Simon Bridges recently reviewed Ian McGibbon’s ‘compendious, 564-page, multi-authored volume’ New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history on Newsroom:...
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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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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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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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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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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson has been reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. It’s the fifth in the kōrero series edited b...
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Downfall
An important new history considered through a queer lens
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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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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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Three Kiwi Tales
Three more endearing stories of helping New Zealand wildlife from the case files of Wildbase Hospital
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2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist
Adam Claasen’s riveting account of New Zealand airmen’s involvement in the Great War has been longlisted for the General Non-fiction Award in the 2...
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Massey University Press welcomes associate publisher
Massey University Press is thrilled to announce the appointment of Tracey Borgfeldt to the new position of associate publisher. Tracey has most rec...
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A review of Rooms on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors for New Zealand Arts Revi...
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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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Downfall shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the...
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Invisible reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
A review of Jacqueline Leckie’s Invisible: New Zealand’s history of excluding Kiwi-Indians has appeared in the New Zealand Journal of History’s Apr...
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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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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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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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The RNZ Cookbook wins the special award for New Zealand at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
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 has won t...
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Back on the Road with Robin Morrison
Connie Brown reviews The South Island of New Zealand: From the Road by Robin Morrison for Art News Aotearoa, delighting in the return of this class...
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Alzheimers New Zealand reviews Song for Rosaleen
Alzheimers New Zealand has reviewed Pip Desmond’s memoir Song for Rosaleen: ‘So much of life is about letting go. This book traces the labyrinthine...
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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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Ngātokimatawhaorua shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Jeff Evans’ immersive and compelling Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka is rubbing shoulders with three other fantast...
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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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Encountering China
Inside our relationship with a superpower
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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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Soundings reviewed by Ingrid Horrocks for New Zealand Geographic
Ingrid Horrocks has reviewed Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for New Zealand Geographic: ‘THIS IS KENNEDY Warne’s memoir of a li...
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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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New Zealand Geographic reviews Te Kupenga
‘Pistons, spark plugs, and small rocks are not objects that you would expect to find in the holdings of a prestigious national library. But the Ale...
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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 Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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10 Questions with 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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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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Aspiring wins Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2020 CYA awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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#Tumeke! wins Best First Book Award at 2020 CYA Awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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Erebus: The Ice Dragon reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
The name Erebus for most New Zealanders is associated with tragedy after the fatal crash of flight TE901 in 1979. In many ways that is appropriate...
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The New Zealand Listener reviews 30 Queer Lives
Andrew Paul Wood has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the New Zealand Listener. You can read the full review...
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Little Doomsdays reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Little Doomsdays, the fifth in the kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, has been reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review. John Daly-Peoples says of Nic...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Daniel K Brown has reviewed the latest in our walking guide series by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, fo...
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10 Question Q&A with Chris Thom
Q1: You are an architect with a busy day job and you probably had some idea of how huge the job of researching a history of health design in New Ze...
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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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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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Our First Foreign War reviewed by Peter Wood for the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Wood has reviewed Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899–1902 on New Zealand for the New Zealand Journal of History....
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Livestock Production in New Zealand? At present the New Zealand economy depends greatly on...
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Proof reviewed on The Maker’s Story
The Maker’s Story has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking: ‘The days of being able to give a definitive explanation of what printmaking is h...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Erebus The Ice Dragon for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviewed Colin Monteath’s latest book Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The...
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Read an extract from Promises Promises
Extract from Promises Promises: 80 years of wooing New Zealand voters, by Claire Robinson. If the male voter’s duty to the state was as head of his...
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David Hill reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
David Hill reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist, edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson, for RNZ’s Nine to Noon pr...
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Kiwi Bikers
A celebration of the motorbikes we love and admire
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The Architect and the Artist Shortlisted in the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble has been announced as a finalist in the Bookseller...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Making Space for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘...
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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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Massey Press August newsletter
We’re very proud of our two August books, Adam Claasen’s superb biography of First World War pilot hero Keith Caldwell, and Marcus Taylor’s endeari...
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Paul Diamond’s Downfall longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Paul Diamond’s latest book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been longlisted for an Ockham New Zealand Book Award in the general non-...
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Edith Collier
Rediscovering a remarkable woman painter
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MUP authors recognised at Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We were thrilled to have two books shortlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards: With Them Through Hell, by Anna Rogers, and Wanted: The...
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Massey News reviews The Ones That Bit Me! by Marcus Taylor
Massey News reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories: ‘From the very first page, it’s evident Ma...
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Tutira Mai reviewed in the Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Social Issues
Thomas O’Brien, lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of York, has reviewed Tūtira Mai: Making change in Aotearoa New Zealand for the A...
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The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no o...
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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Conversātiō for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Conversātiō for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The book is a combination of artist’s book and personal journal along with essa...
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Leonard Bell reviews Gretchen Albrecht for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Leonard Bell has reviewed the revised edition of Luke Smythe’s Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry for the Aotearoa New Zealand Review...
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Frequently asked questions
Does Massey University Press publish textbooks? Yes, under the MasseyTexts imprint. We are especially interested in textbooks designed to be used i...
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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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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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Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
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Fifty Years a Feminist reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist has been reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. In the latest...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
This thorough and thought-provoking book will ignite interest in the life and works of New Zealand artist Edith Collier, who is now recognised as...
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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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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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50 Years Young
The colourful history of New Zealand’s best-loved farming contest
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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One Hundred Havens reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Meihana reviews One Hundred Havens: The Settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole: 'AS A CHILD, I often visited aunties and un...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Q1: You’ve written many books and are well acquainted with the highs and lows of the authorial life. But was this one just a bit different? It is d...
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Me, According to the History of Art
A fast-paced romp through the history of western painting with one of New Zealand’s best-known painters
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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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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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Sleeping Better in Pregnancy
Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby
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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 Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
Q1: Can you briefly describe what social policy is? A traditional answer has been that social policy focused on ‘welfare’ for the needy plus, more...
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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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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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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The Poetic Landscape of Aotearoa 2017
Listen to Jack Ross talking with RNZ’s Lynn Freeman about putting together the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 here.
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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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John Scott Works
A survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s most important architects
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10 Questions with Danny Keenan
Q1: You have written books on armed conflict and passive resistance in the nineteenth century. The Fate of the Land feels like another layer of the...
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75 years since New Zealand handed Nazi Germany its first land defeat of WWII
Glyn Harper recently talked to Newshub’s Tony Wright about the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, and his new book releasing this month:...
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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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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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Tūtira Mai
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Tūtira Mai ebook
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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Book extract: What it feels like to be 50 years old, David Slack
What it feels like to be 50 years old, by David Slack, extracted from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016, edited by Nicola Legat. http://www.nzhera...
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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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Ki Mua, Ki Muri
Inside Aotearoa’s Māori art school powerhouse
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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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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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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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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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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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Announcing the winning poems of the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winning entries from the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. The first prize winners will...
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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Home: New Writing in the news
Home: New Writing edited by Thom Conroy was launched at Unity Books Wellington on Thursday 13 July. This collection features essays from twenty-two...
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New book covers artist's rich modernist history
'Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery during the 1990s. Alon...
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10 Questions with Steve Chadwick
1. Now that the book is finished, are you happy with it? Yes, very pleased. It has turned out better than I expected. 2. What were you looking fo...
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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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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Danny Keenan
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004.
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Author Jane Robertson interviewed by The Press
Jane Robertson, author of the ‘spectacularly illustrated’ Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, has been interview...
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10 Questions with David Littlewood
Now that it’s almost published, what delights you most about your book, Experience of a Lifetime? At the risk of using a cliche, I really can’t pic...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service
A remarkable organisation and its pivotal role in this nation’s international relations
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Peter Clague reads three poems
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 author Peter Clague reads three of his pieces from the book.
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Devon Webb performs her poem ‘Note to Self’
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Vaughan Rapatahana reads two poems
Poet Vaughan Rapatahana reads two of his poems featured in this year's fabulous Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020.
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National Poetry Day event on Albany campus
Celebrate National Poetry Day on Massey University’s Albany campus — hear new and emerging poets read their work, from 12pm, Atrium Building AT2, F...
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PNZ Yearbook editor Jo Emeney talks to Jesse Mulligan
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook editor Johanna Emeney talked to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about the new edition of the Yearbook which has just been release...
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NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from PNZ Yearbook poets
Paula Green at NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from poets who contributed to the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, edited by Tracey Slaughter. In...
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Jack Ross talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
The 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook includes 130 new poems from 87 poets. It has a skew for 2018 towards younger writers including those who are s...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018? I’m happy with the feature: the poems, interview and essa...
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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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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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Announcing the winners of the Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2020
The winners are: Year 13 First prize: Pippi Jean, ‘Class of 2020’ and ‘11.11pm’ Second prize: Georgia Wearing, ‘Bury the Lamb’ Third prize: Cathe...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, the latest in our series of architectural guides by John Walsh and Patrick...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
Another Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is off to print. What are the strengths of the 2019 edition? I think this may well be the issue I’m proudest o...
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Johanna Emeney reads from her new book
Johanna Emeney reads ‘Touching’ from Felt. Head to New Zealand Poetry Shelf to listen to the full piece. Follow the link here.
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Inside New Zealand’s most inspiring rooms
‘About a decade and a half ago, after 30 years photographing people for the New Zealand Listener, Jane Ussher left the magazine and developed a new...
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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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Newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to receive Massey University Press’s monthly newsletter. Read our latest issue here.
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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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Eat Pacific reviewed in The New York Times
Ligaya Mishan reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for The New York Times: ‘In Fiji, when bread...
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Invisible features on New Books Network podcast
Jacqueline Leckie has featured on the New Books Network podcast in conversation with Amir Sayadabdi, a lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria Univers...
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10 Questions with Michael Belgrave
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University? I’ve always believ...
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‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
Lindsay Inglis joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in April 1915 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant, and spent the entire war as an o...
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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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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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After Winter Comes the Summer
A treasury of unique folk songs sung in the Deitsch language
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Thom Conroy
Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University.
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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
1. Why did you all want to write this book? Because knowledge shouldn’t be hoarded by elite individuals. Because we want to share the stories of...
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Bill Kaye-Blake
Dr William (Bill) Kaye-Blake is a chief economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand (PwC NZ), Wellington.
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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Against the Odds
The women who battled prejudice and indifference to become doctors
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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David Belgrave
David Belgrave is a lecturer in citizenship and politics in the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University.
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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State of Threat
Timely analysis of our most important security issues
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Life in the Shallows
How wetlands work, what lives there, and what we can do to protect them
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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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Michael Petherick
Debut novelist Michael Petherick lives, writes and plays music in Wellington, New Zealand
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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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Everything But the Medicine
Candid insight into the life and work of a general practitioner
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Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021
Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021, and four Massey Press titles make the list: ‘The Architect and the Artists by Bridget...
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November launches
It’s a full November for MUP authors, who will be busy across the country with book launches and talks.The New Zealand Horse by Deborah Coddington...
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Kathy Paterson
Kathy Paterson is a writer, recipe developer, food stylist and photographer.
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler MNZM worked for 21 years at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, latterly as Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art.
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Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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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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David Straight
David Straight is an Auckland-based photographer who specialises in architecture.
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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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David Eggleton
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage.
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The setting for Paul Diamond’s book Downfall becomes New Zealand’s first rainbow listing of a significant building
’The site where Whanganui's former mayor shot a returned soldier who was threatening to expose him as homosexual is New Zealand's first rainbow lis...
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Tū Rangaranga Ebook
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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Tū Rangaranga
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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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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The Treaty on the Ground
The coalface reality of honouring the Treaty of Waitangi in today’s law, local government, education, health, social services and more
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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Negar Partow
Negar Partow is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University.
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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James Hollings
James Hollings is Associate Professor of Journalism at Massey University, Wellington.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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Ian McGibbon interviewed on Māori Television
Editor of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history Ian McGibbon was recently interviewed on Māori Television to talk about this new publication. Y...
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Michelle Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and teacher of creative writing.
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Ten Questions with Ian McGibbon
Q1: Why did it take so long for New Zealand to set up a diplomatic service? For a long time New Zealand was content to follow the United Kingdom’s...
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Ian McGibbon talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Ian McGibbon, author of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, talked with Kathryn Ryan on Wednesday about the book and the history of the Minis...
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Rachael Bell
Dr Rachael Bell is a lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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‘A Prince of Riflemen’: An extract from Experience of a Lifetime
At about 8 p.m. on 25 April, Brigadier General Harold ‘Hooky’ Walker ordered Jesse Wallingford to guide two newly arrived companies of the Canterbu...
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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Cliff Simons
Cliff Simons is Director of the New Zealand Wars Study Centre at the New Zealand Defence College.
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Geoff Watson
Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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David Cohen
David Cohen is an author and journalist.
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Simon Wilson
Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald.
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Veterinary Clinical Toxicology
An excellent resource on toxicoses for veterinary students, practitioners, agriculturalists, diagnostic laboratories and libraries
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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Helen Dollery
Helen Dollery is an historian and lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, teaching citizenship as part of the Bachelor of Arts core courses.
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Take a tour of MacKay’s Whanganui, as explored in Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall
The publication of Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall: The Destruction of Charles MacKay is leading many to see Whanganui’s history in a new light. R...
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Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in New Zealand’s social and architectural history.
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Kathryn Hay
Dr Kathryn Hay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Massey University. She is a registered social worker and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
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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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William Hoverd
Associate Professor William Hoverd is the director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University.
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Anne Ridler
Anne Ridler is Associate Professor Sheep & Beef Cattle Health & Production at Massey University’s Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences
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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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DesignCo
DesignCo is a New Zealand design consortium comprising Massey University’s College of Creative Arts, the Designers Institute of New Zealand, Otago Polytechnic School of Design, NZTE (Better By Design programme), AUT School of Art and Design, the Auckland Co-design Lab, Callaghan Innovation, and Victoria’s University’s School of Design.
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Jack Ross
Jack Ross is the managing editor of Poetry New Zealand and a senior lecturer in creative writing at Massey University.
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Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi works with children in schools throughout New Zealand, promoting reading and teaching creative writing.
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Nicola Legat
Nicola Legat is the publisher at Massey University Press, and has had a distinguished career in journalism.
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Tim Parkinson
Timothy Parkinson BVSc, DBR, DipECAR, MEd, PhD, FRCVS is a Registered Specialist (RCVS) in veterinary reproduction (cattle and sheep).
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Natalia Martín
Dr Natalia Martín is a lecturer in animal science at Massey University.
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Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University whose research is published in leading international journals. He is a regular commentator on political issues.
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Nigel Robson
Nigel Robson is a senior historian at the Office of Māori Crown Relations — Te Arawhiti.
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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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Adam Claasen
Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University’s Albany campus. He is a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship grantee, a Fulbright Scholarship (Georgetown University) awardee and a Massey University research team medallist.
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Hauturu
A richly illustrated account of the island’s diverse plants and animals, and the people behind this globally significant conservation success story
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Danny Keenan receives the 2023 Michael King Writer's Fellowship
It was announced on Friday that Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) is the 2023 recipient of Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Congratula...
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David Littlewood
David Littlewood is a Lecturer in History at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus, and his research focuses on the impacts of the First World War on New Zealand and British society.
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Bookmarks with Tracey Slaughter
She speaks to Jesse Mulligan about her favourite books, songs, TV shows and more. Listen on RNZ here.
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Lareen Cooper
Lareen Cooper is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School in the Social Work and Social Policy programme at Massey University’s School of Social Work. She has worked at Massey for nine years, and has an extensive background in health services management.
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Andy Martin
Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North.
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Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. Her fourth novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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Bordering on Miraculous
A vivid, compelling collaboration between a poet and a painter
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Rebooting the Regions
Expert essays on how to combat the pull of Auckland and get the regions humming
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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Michael Belgrave
Professor Michael Belgrave is a foundation member of Massey University’s Albany campus, and a highly regarded historian.
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Andrew Cameron
Andrew Cameron grew up in the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and when not working in a war-zone or post-conflict zone, he is the sole medical practitioner in Birdsville, Australia.
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Peter Meihana
Dr Peter Meihana, Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō and Ngāi Tahu, is a lecturer in Māori History in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert
The inspirational and engaging story of a nurse who works in war zones and the Australian outback
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Olveston
The opulent interiors of a glorious historic house
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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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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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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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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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Read an extract from Fearless published in the NZ Herald
The NZ Herald published a selection of extracts from Fearless about the Great War airman Keith Caldwell. Read them here.
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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Alie Benge
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essay collection, Ithaca, was published in 2023.
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Chris McDowall
Dr Chris McDowall trained as a geographer with a focus on cartography and human geography.
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Mere Taito
Mere Taito is a poetry, flash fiction and short story writer and scholar of Rotuman heritage who is based in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
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Margaret Kawharu
Margaret Kawharu, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara/Mahurehure, is the Senior Advisor Māori at Massey University’s Albany campus.
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Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best known and most versatile painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.
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Noel O'Hare wins 2021 Bert Roth Award
Noel O’Hare is the winner of the 2021 Bert Roth Award for Labour History for his book, Tooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental...
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Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers.
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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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Kathryn van Beek
Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is the author of two children’s books and the short story collection Pet (2020), which is also available as a podcast.
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Bethan Greener
Dr Bethan Greener is Associate Professor in the Politics programme at Massey, and her research has focused on international security issues and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Modernist mural gets new lease of life
From the Wairarapa Times: A ceramic mural of considerable historical and monetary value could soon come out of the dark to be celebrated on permane...
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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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Graham Hassall
Graham Hassall is an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Jo Willis
Jo Willis is an adopted person and a specialist in the field of adoption counselling, coaching and education. She is also a personal and leadership development coach.
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The Unsettled: Book of the Week on Newsroom
Sally Blundell reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Newsroom: ‘In Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence, Fl...
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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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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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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Margaret Tennant
Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant was formerly Professor of History at Massey University, and is now an Honorary Research Professor within the School of Humanities.
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Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
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John Crawford
John Crawford is the New Zealand Defence Force Historian and a member of the Governance Group of the First World War Centennial History Programme.
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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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Paula Green
Paula Green has published twelve poetry collections, including several for children.
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Rewi reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen’s Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘This beautiful book, four years in t...
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Ian McGibbon
Ian McGibbon ONZM worked as an historian in the Ministry of Defence, Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage during his 44-year career as a public historian.
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Peter Lineham
Professor Peter Lineham has for many years written and lectured extensively on the religious history of New Zealand.
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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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Helen Beaglehole
Helen Beaglehole is a writer, editor and historian who has spent many years sailing and exploring in the Marlborough Sounds.
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Landfall Online
Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa by Michael Belgrave for Landfall Online: ‘When historians attempt to chronicle the whole history of a coun...
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Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher who has had a long career in journalism.
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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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Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and works from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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John Walsh
John Walsh is the author of several major books on New Zealand architecture.
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Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright.
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Deborah Shepard
Deborah Shepard is an author, teacher of memoir, oral historian and film and art historian.
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Jan Kemp
Jan Kemp MNZM is a poet and short fiction writer.
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Jeff Evans
Jeff Evans is a writer based in Auckland.
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Shiloh Groot
Shiloh Groot (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Uenukukopako) is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Auckland.
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Ten Question Q&A with Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
Q1: You’ve both published in this kai sovereignty/Indigenous food systems space before. What did you specifically want this book to do? JS: The boo...
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Masayoshi Ogino
Dr Masayoshi Ogino has extensive experience in language teaching in both New Zealand and overseas at secondary and tertiary levels. He has an M.Phil in Japanese Language Education and PhD in Applied Linguistics.
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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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Paul Spoonley
Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealand’s leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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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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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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The best illustrated books of 2024: Woolsheds and Herbst
Steve Braunias’s top illustrated nonfiction books for Reading Room includes two Massey University Press titles: Woolsheds: The historic shearing sh...
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Read an extract of Erebus published in the NZ Herald
Former New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme field operations officer Colin Monteath recalls his recovery work after the devastating Mt Erebus c...
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Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
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Mark Derby
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian.
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10 Questions with David Cohen and Kathy Paterson
Q1: What part does RNZ play in your daily life? Kathy Paterson: It’s a constant, one that informs me with interviews connected to news headlines fr...
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Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia.
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The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
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Girol Karacaoglu
Girol Karacaoglu is head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is a Ruapehu-based writer and outdoors enthusiast.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Paula Morris
Paula Morris MNZM, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Whātua, is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
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Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley is a former broadcaster and Green MP
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The Ones That Bit Me!
A young vet’s experiences with cows and camels
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Anna Dickson
Dr Anna Dickson is a New Zealand freelance writer and editor.
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Helen Schamroth
Helen Schamroth ONZM has been writing about craft, design and art for more than four decades
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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Rachel Haydon
Rachel Haydon is the general manager of the National Acquarium of New Zealand, in Napier, and a children’s author.
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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 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...