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We Are Here featured on Nine to Noon
Chris McDowall and Tim Denee, co-authors of We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa, were interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on RNZ's Nine to Noon programme. To...
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We Are Here reviewed by Bob Frame
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Roger Smith’s speech from the Wellington launch of We Are Here
We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa was launched in Wellington on October 8 by Roger Smith, cartographer at Geographx Map Design Studio. Tēnā koutou...
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Cartography Is Here — review essay of We Are Here
Igor Drecki reviews We Are Here for the International Journal of Cartography. ‘Originality is one of the prevailing strengths of the atlas, which m...
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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Chris Szekely interviewed by Kelly Dennett
Chris Szekely, one of the editors of Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull, was interviewed by Kelly Dennett: ‘In the introduction...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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Becoming Aotearoa: Newsroom’s book of the week
Philip Matthews reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Newsroom’s book of the week: ‘Was the Christchurch...
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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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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Chris Price
Chris Price is an author and is the convenor of the MA workshop in poetry and creative non-fiction at the IIML.
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Giselle Byrnes reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Australian Historical Studies: ‘All histories refle...
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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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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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Kim Hill in conversation with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Kim Hill talks with Chris Price and Bruce Foster about their new book The Lobster's Tale. The lobster is a creature that likes darkness, preferrin...
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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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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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On We Go reviewed in Ako Journal
Ako Journal has reviewed On We Go, the first collaboration between poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall. Sarah Barnett writes: ‘A collabora...
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Paula Green reviews On We Go
Paula Green reviews On We Go for Poetry Shelf. ‘Artist Catherine Bagnall grew up between the bush and Wellington harbour’s eastern shore. She lectu...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews On We Go
‘This collaboration between an artist and a poet, both raised near Wellington, is another beautiful hardcover book from Massey UniversityPress, in...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
It might be a whopper, coming in at 650 pages, but Michael Belgrave’s sweeping history of New Zealand is a fluent, authoritative, and often revisio...
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Chris Price reads from The Lobster’s Tale on NZ Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews The Lobster's Tale and author Chris Price reads from the book: Lloyd Jones’ Kōrero series invites a collaboration between ‘two...
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Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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On We Go review on Volume NZ
On We Go is a beautiful book, in design and content. This collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle is a whimsical dreamsc...
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You Are Here reviewed in Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Kelly Ana Morey reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Aotearoa NZ Review of Books: ‘You Are Here is the sixth book in the kōr...
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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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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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10 Questions with Michael Keith and Chris Szekely
Q1: This book is the closing act of a couple of years of celebration of Alexander Turnbull’s life and his great gift to the nation of. Since he gav...
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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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Erica Stretton reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed the new Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023, edited by Tracey Slaughter, on Kete Books: ‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: afte...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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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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How Should We Live?
A guide to navigating the twenty-first century’s ethical minefields
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You Are Here reviewed in NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Booklovers: ‘In You Are Here, Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin craft a deep...
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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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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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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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You Are Here reviewed in Kete
Jade Kake reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Kete: ‘'You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home: both the beginning and th...
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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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Invisible
Migration and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Read an extract from You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
What is it that stops you now? Is it the possibility of failure? You’ve survived failure many times before, so whywould this be different? Perhaps...
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You Are Here reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Poetry Shelf: ‘Massey University Press’s kōrero project invites collaboratio...
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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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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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Free to Be Children
How to combat the tragedy of child sexual abuse
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What we find when we dig up the past
‘As I read through my great-grandfather’s military service record and learned that he had been present not only for the invasion of Parihaka but al...
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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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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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The rich history of Aotearoa art, through one gallery in one city
Author and screenplay writer Martin Edmond’s new work traverses the history of a building and the art history of Whanganui. Te Whare o Rehua Sarje...
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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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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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The Dark Dad reviewed on Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Guy Somerset reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘It used to be sometimes said of so...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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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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What we can learn from animals, from a vet-turned-author
Marcus Taylor has been a vet since 2013. His memoir, The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories, published by Massey University...
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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
Q1: At the start of this book you tell the reader about the urge you felt to write some sort of a history in the immediate wake of the mosque shoot...
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Ferns and why we need a public art registry
Senior adviser at Massey's College of Creative Arts and Chair of the Wellington Sculpture Trust Sue Elliott talks to Mark Amery from RNZ's Standing...
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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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Mark Adams clocks up 50 years of undoing ‘othering’ in Aotearoa
Sapeer Mayron interviews Mark Adams about his work and new book Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for Sunday Star-Times: ‘The acclaimed p...
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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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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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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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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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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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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Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga
Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga for Kids Books NZ: ‘As a nonfiction writer, I've visited the Alexander Turnbull library a few times. I've locked away...
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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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Te Kupenga reviewed by Jessie Neilson for Otago Daily Times
Jessie Neilson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull for the Otago Daily Times. You can read the full review below: 10...
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Labour of Love
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking
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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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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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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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Michael Belgrave chats to Morrin Rout on Plains FM
With a life long passion for books and for New Zealand authors, programme host Morrin Rout utilizes her wealth of radio broadcasting experience to...
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Tū Rangaranga
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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What can we do to combat child abuse?
Robyn Salisbury, editor of Free to Be Children, talks to the Newshub team about the complex issues surrounding harmful sexual behaviour and the nee...
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Tū Rangaranga Ebook
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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Michael Steven reviews The Lobster’s Tale for PhotoForum
Michael Steven reviews The Lobster's Tale for PhotoForum: ‘Massey University Press’s kōrero series of ‘picture books’ for adult readers have a diff...
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Ian Wedde reviews The Lobster’s Tale
‘This book, combining texts by Chris Price and images by Bruce Foster, is the third in the kōrero series from Massey University Press edited by Llo...
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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
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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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A Day in the Life of Catherine Bagnall
’I think of myself as a painter rather than an illustrator. I think this is because my full-time job is as a teacher, and so the painting happens w...
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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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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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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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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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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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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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Cyber Security and Policy
Welcome to cyberspace — where all your computing and connection needs are on demand, and where security threats have never been more massive
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Ten Question Q&A with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: One hundred and forty-one new poems by 127 poets. This must be one of the biggest editions yet! How on earth do you make the reading and select...
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Tū Arohae
How to think clearly in a confusing post-truth age
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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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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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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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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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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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Te Kupenga one of Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books
Eleanor Black has included Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull in Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books: ‘A handwritten account of Hēn...
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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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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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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
1. What was the motivation for writing this book? Over the past decade several of our longstanding and former staff members who held the oral histo...
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10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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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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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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Kiwi Bikers
A celebration of the motorbikes we love and admire
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Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga
Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga for Kete: ‘The Alexander Turnbull library is the oldest section of the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington....
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Tree Sense
A tree miscellany with a focus on our planet's future
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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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In the Temple
A unique jewel of a poetry collection
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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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10 questions with Kathryn Hay, Michael Dale and Lareen Cooper
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand? Everything! The vibrancy of colour, the easy-to-read f...
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10 Question Q&A with Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
Q1: What was your reaction when series editor Lloyd Jones approached you to see whether you were keen to create the sixth book in the kōrero series...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2023. How many poems were submitted? Once again, well over a thousand. Oft...
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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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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Contact us
COURIER ADDRESS For courier parcels please use our physical address: Massey University PressLevel 5, ANZ Building9 Corinthian DriveAlbanyAuckland 0...
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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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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is a Ruapehu-based writer and outdoors enthusiast.
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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
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Jeff Evans
Jeff Evans is a writer based in Auckland.
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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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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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Anne Noble
Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most widely respected contemporary photographers.
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Michelle Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and teacher of creative writing.
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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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 Dark Dad
The damage done to a family by war
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
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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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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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Peter Walker
Peter Walker began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Fox Boy.
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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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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
Following the release of Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, Lloyd Jones spoke with Stuff about his process as editor of th...
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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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Pātaka Kai reviewed by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
Chris Reed reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura: ‘Pātaka Kai by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith is an inspiring...
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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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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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Katūīvei reviewed for NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand for NZ Booklovers: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is an author, editor and book reviewer.
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
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John Scott Works
A survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s most important architects
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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Amber Clausner
Amber Clausner is a British arts producer based in Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington.
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Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist.
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Susette Goldsmith
Dr Susette Goldsmith is a writer and editor of non-fiction, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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Fifty Years a Feminist
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Song for Rosaleen
Losing and finding a mother in dementia
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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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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Jessica Hutchings
Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) is a senior kaupapa Māori research leader, author, activist and Hua Parakore grower.
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David Cohen
David Cohen is an author and journalist.
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Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
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Monica Peters
Monica Peters works freelance at the interface between science, conservation and the public.
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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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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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Stuff interviews Downfall author Paul Diamond
‘Paul Diamond has pursued stories his whole life. An accountant-turned-journalist, Diamond is queer and Māori and now works to help tell stories at...
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Short | Poto reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for NZ Booklovers: ‘Short | Poto: The Big Book of Small Stories – It...
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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‘Stories of historic shearing sheds warmly received’
David Watt reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Heritage New Zealand: ‘...
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The Spinoff's summer reading list of local crime books
'Crime fiction dominated the most-borrowed or circulated books in 2023, according to information provided by a sample of Aotearoa libraries (thanks...
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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...
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Cassandra Barnett
Cassandra Barnett is an author and artist of Raukawa, Ngāti Huri and Pākehā descent who writes poetry, essays and short fiction about cultural and ecological futures.
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Roger Buckton
Roger Buckton was an adjunct associate-professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He has lived in Pūhoi since 1990.
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Lucy O’Hagan
Lucy O’Hagan has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years.
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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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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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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The Sheep
A technical and specialist guide to diseases in sheep
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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
Q1: What is the greatest threat to New Zealand’s security? WH & DM: Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest threats to the security...
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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To the Summit
An inspirational story of determination and grit
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Olveston
The opulent interiors of a glorious historic house
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
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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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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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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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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
It is difficult to believe that this was, that this is, New Zealand. In December, 1925, the White New Zealand League held its first meeting in the...
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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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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 New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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The Battle for North Africa
The desperate weeks of desert warfare that gave the Allies hope that they could put Nazi Germany on the run
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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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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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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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Experience of a Lifetime
A fresh look at the World War I experience
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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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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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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Extract from Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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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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Downfall
An important new history considered through a queer lens
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...
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Read an interview with Floor van Lierop, designer of Ans Westra: A life in photography
Kete Books interviews Floor van Lierop, book designer, about her work on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Floor, hi! Can you tell u...
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Jane Sayle
Jane Sayle grew up on the south coast of Wellington. She has been a dealer in curios and ephemera, an art writer and reviewer, a lecturer in the history of New Zealand visual culture and a traveller.
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
Max Oettli reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Everyone seems to have an Ans Westra story to tell. Mine involves Westra swear...
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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Life in the Shallows for the Waiheke Weekender
Reviewer Jenny Nicholls has written about Life in the Shallows: The wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Karen Denyer and Monica Peters for Stuff. ‘...
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Sylvia and the Birds video by tamariki at Wellington’s seatoun school
Seatoun School tamariki made an adorable video using Sylvia and the Birds to learn how to be better kaitiaki of Aotearoa, shared by the New Zealand...
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Landfall reviews The Writing Life
Read Tasha Haines’ insightful review of The Writing Life by Deborah Shepard: ‘In her introduction to The Writing Life, Deborah Shepard highlights t...
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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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Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
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Martin Edmond talks to RNZ’s Mark Amery
Acclaimed writer Martin Edmond did his Christmas shopping in Whanganui as a child, travelling down the river from Ohakune where he was raised. They...
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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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Te Ataakura on creating books for young te reo learners
Dionne Christian spoke with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book, offered as both a bilingual and te reo edition, Ko wai kei te papa...
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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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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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Marcus Taylor
Marcus Taylor graduated with a degree in veterinary science from Massey University in 2013 and went straight into mixed practice. He later worked in Newfoundland and southern England, and then he worked for a year on an animal-health research project with the Bedouin in the Middle East.
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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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John Walsh
John Walsh is the author of several major books on New Zealand architecture.
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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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Life in the Shallows authors talk to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Authors Karen Denyer and Monica Peters talked to Kathryn Ryan recently about their new book Life in the Shallows: The wetlands of Aotearoa New Zeal...
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David Eggleton, editor of Katūīvei, interviewed on Bookenz
Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout talk to David Eggleton, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Bookenz, a weekly p...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on Newsroom
Read an extract from Hinemoana Baker's essay ‘Kingfisher’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Be...
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Sudeepta Vyas reviews Invisible for Kete
Sudeepta Vyas reviews Invisible for Kete: ‘Leckie’s writing style is expository and in spite of the challenging subject, an easy read. Her fluid na...
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Hard by the Cloud House: Book of the week on Newsroom
Ashleigh Young reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Newsroom: ‘“Show us the bird,” I found myself muttering at times while reading H...
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Geoff Watson
Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage and was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021. Vaugha...
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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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Brigitta Baker and Jo Willis, authors of Adopted, feature on TVNZ
Authors of Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker featured on TVNZ’s Sunday programme ‘Who am I?’ this weekend. They...
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Watch Andrew Paul Wood on The Project NZ
Seances, spells and mystical visions – an author says early settlers in Aotearoa were getting up to all kinds of weird stuff behind closed doors....
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Andrew Paul Wood talks about Shadow Worlds on The Project
Andrew Paul Wood, author of Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand, talks on The Project NZ about seances, spells and...
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Paula Green reviews Sylvia and the Birds for Poetry Box
Paula Green has reviewed Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing’s new book Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can...
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An interview with Shadow Worlds’ Fiona Pardington, Andrew Paul Wood and Megan van Staden
‘When one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading photographic artists provides an image for the cover of a book, it’s bound to be striking; when that bo...
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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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Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
David Eggleton reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Artists in Antarctica e...
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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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10 Questions with Ella Kahu, Te Rā Moriarty, Helen Dollery and Richard Shaw
Q1: Tūrangawaewae was first published in 2017 and has reprinted a number of times. Why is it so successful? Part of that has to do with the fact t...
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Vaughan Rapatahana analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Read a Poem
Vaughan Rapatahana, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Re...
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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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David Herkt reviews A Queer Existence
‘The 27 young gay men in Mark Beehre’s square-format photographs look out upon us from a position of almost preternatural stillness. They might be...
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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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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging? Perhaps it’s the ‘thingness’ of the book itself – we...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
Q1: The first-ever social history of mental depression in New Zealand . . . what drew you to this topic? It comes from my long-term research, tea...
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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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John Walsh talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture
Author John Walsh talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about the revised edition of Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — A walking guide. He talks about...
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Short | Poto reviewed in Kete Books
Savannah Patterson reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for Kete Books: ‘Some books change how we read. Others change...
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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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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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Hastings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for NZ Booklovers: ‘Dick Frizzell’s Hastings is a warm, nostalgic, and often h...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for Waiheke Weekender:...
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Lama Tone reviews Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere for Kete
‘Waiho rā kia tū takitahi ana ngā whetū o te rangi / Let it be one alone that stands among the other stars in the sky (Alsop & Kupenga) In Poly...
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
An extract from Richard Shaw's upcoming book The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation: We also stir up emotions when we begin rummaging aroun...
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Michelle Elvy reviews Soundings for Landfall
Michelle Elvy has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s memoir, Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea, in Landfall: ‘In this book, Kennedy Warne e...
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Kete Books reviews Life in the Shallows
‘Life in the Shallows is one of those immensely rewarding books where almost every page turns up a fascinating fact. For me that can all too often...
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Fire & Ice reviewed in NZ Listener
Claire Williamson reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for NZ Listener: ‘Earth, air, fire, water, aether. These may sound like spellcasting el...
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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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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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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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
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Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...
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Newsroom reviews Christchurch Architecture
‘It’s a very ordinary scene in New Zealand’s second or third largest city, and most of us barely notice the architectural wonder around us. The Hin...
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Conversātiō — In the company of bees wins three top awards at the PANZ Book Design Awards 2022
Conversātiō — In the company of bees by Anne Noble with Zara Stanhope and Anna Brown has won three top awards at the PANZ Book Design Awards 2022....
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Country calendar: Woolsheds, in Newsroom
Steve Braunias reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for ReadingRoom: ‘Milki...
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Annette O’Sullivan interviewed in Wairarapa Times-Age
Klah Radcliffe interviews Annette O’Sullivan about her new book Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand for the Wairarapa Ti...
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Dr Mark Stocker’s launch speech for Me, According to the History of Art
Me, According to the History of Art was launched in Auckland on 29 October 2020 by Dr Mark Stocker. Tēnā koutou katoa! As the person who claims chi...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on the Christchurch library blog
One of the Christchurch librarians, Bronwen Knowles, has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can,...
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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The Unsettled reviewed on Landfall
Rowan Light reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw: ‘Aotearoa New Zealand, like the Arthurian setting of Kazuo Ishigu...
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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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Short | Poto reviewed by Mary-Anne Stone
Mary-Anne Stone of Bookenz reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong: ‘Short/Poto is a bilingual anthology of 100 flash f...
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Havelock North and Auckland launches for John Scott Works
Join us to celebrate the launch of John Scott Works, by David Straight. This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and cultural si...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in North & South
Solomon Lewis reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for North & South:...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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Encountering China reviewed in Capital Magazine’s book club
Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell has been reviewed for Capital’s book cl...
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Artists in Antarctica reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame reviews Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd for Polar Record: ‘Patrick Shepherd has edited a sumptuous collection of creativity by...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua author Jeff Evans interviewed by NZ Booklovers
Jeff Evans is a non-fiction writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively about both waka and voyaging, including the 2015 biog...
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Solo reviewed on Kete
Alex Eagles has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Hazel Phillips, on Kete. She says: ‘In 2017, after packing her l...
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The Fruit Shop by Gilbert Wong: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
The Fruit Shop: A story of growing up as a Chinese New Zealander Wong Gee and Co was open five and a half days a week, and only succeeded when trea...
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Gretchen Albrecht interviewed at Auckland Art Gallery
Catharina van Bohemen speaks with Gretchen Albrecht about Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between Gesture and Geometry by Luke Smythe: ‘In 2019...
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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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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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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The Fo...
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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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Katūīvei reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Mere Taito and Vaughan Rapatahana fo...
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10 Questions with Jenny Gillam
Q1: Your images document a unique wānanga in the north, in which women came together to learn how to pelt kiwi for their feathers for weaving. The...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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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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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
Q1: What prompted you to share your story? JW: This is the book I wished that I could have read secretly under my duvet when I was only just survi...
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Sunday Best reviewed in Toi Motu magazine
Toi Motu InterIslands magazine featured a review of Peter Lineham’s Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the churc...
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Ten questions with Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Q1: These ‘kōrero series’ projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on The Spinoff’s Christmas book-shopping list 2021
Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? were chosen by books editor Catherine Woulfe for The Spinoff’s 2021 Chris...
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Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened
Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans for Kete: ‘Making a significant contribution to celebrat...
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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Waiheke Weekender: ‘As global supply chains becom...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti o Te Ātiawa) reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans: 'Jeff Evans’s Ngātokimatawhaorua is a...
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Jane Ussher talks to NZ House & Garden about Rooms
NZ House & Garden has interviewed Jane Ussher about her new book with John Walsh. Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors features...
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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Paula Green reviews The RNZ Cookbook on NZ Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and...
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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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Kate Barraclough wins a 2023 PANZ Book Design Award for The RNZ Cookbook
Congratulations to the wonderful Kate Barraclough, and illustrator Pippa Keel, who won the 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2023 at the recent...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri: ‘When the exhibiti...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews The Architect and the Artist
‘One of the highlights of the 2020 exhibition “A Place to Paint” at the Auckland Art Gallery was Colin McCahon’s restored windows which had origina...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: This is a revised edition of a book first published in 2020. Why another edition so soon, and what’s new about it? When the first edition of t...
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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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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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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in Stuff
Damien Grant reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Stuff: ‘There is a picture taken at Waitangi in 1963. It is of the Queen...
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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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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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Fire & Ice is ReadingRoom's book of the week
Steve Braunias reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for ReadingRoom: ‘The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen...
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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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The Monday Extract on The Spinoff
An excerpt from Pip Desmond’s best-selling memoir about her mother’s descent into dementia. I read about a hairdresser who had three customers pas...
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Raiment reviewed in ANZL
Stephanie Johnson has produced a balanced reviewed of Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment: A Memoir for Academy of New Zealand Literature. ‘Prominent New Zea...
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Raiment: A memoir reviewed in Landfall
Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp has been reviewed in Landfall. Reviewer Wendy Parkins writes: ‘In 1971, the Canadian author Alice Munro wrote: ‘Ther...
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Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Newsroom: ‘Many of N...
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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Landfall Review Online
Eric Trump reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Landfall Review Online: ‘‘It is well that war is...
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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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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Simon Wilson talks HomeGround with Kete Books
As part of their 12 Books of Christmas series, Kete interviewed Simon Wilson about HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives: What le...
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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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James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd: 'I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this h...
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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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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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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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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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10 Questions with Peter Walker, author of Hard by the Cloud House
Q1: This your fourth book and it ranges far and wide. Where did the idea for it first take seed? I was reading a newspaper one day and saw a story...
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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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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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State of Threat reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's national security edited by Wil Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald in...
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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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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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Kete reviews Kaewa the Kororā
Dionne Christian and Zoe Gadd round up new New Zealand children’s books for Kete: ‘At the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, the rehabilit...
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James Dobson interviewed by Stuff
Stuff has published James Dobson’s interview from 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘New book 30 Queer Lives by Matt McE...
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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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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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Little Doomsdays is Volume’s book of the week
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived by Lloyd Jones is Volume’s book of the week: ‘Little Doomsdays, a collaboration between writer Nic Low and...
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Kete Books reviews Shadow Worlds
‘In the 1970s, I went on a very specific book-buying bender and was soon adrift in a confusing confluence of esoteric knowledge and practices: Gurd...
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Graham Reid reviews Shadow Worlds on Kete
Andrew Paul Wood’s new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed by Graham Reid on Kete: ‘In the 19...
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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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Ta Mark Solomon on Maori Television
Ta Mark Solomon’s memoir Mana Whakatipu was featured on Te Ao, Maori Television's news bulletin: ‘Everyone has an opinion about Covid-19 and Tā Mar...
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Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch
Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch: Space may not be the final frontier it once was, yet the sun, the stars and the universe stil...
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Andrew Paul Wood interviewed on Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood spoke to Rachael Comer for Stuff ahead of the launch of his book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealan...
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Jessie Neilson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Jessie Nielson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley: ‘Sue Kedgley has been involved in activism both in New Zealand and overseas for half...
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Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast
‘ Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Academy of New Zealand Literature: Family histories are having a moment in the sun. Charlot...
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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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NZ Booklovers interviews Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch. He has spent 32 seasons in Antarctica, from...
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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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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on Kete
Bob Frame reviews Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson: ‘This sumptuous social and environmental...
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A Meeting of Cultures
World War I is widely perceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors and elites pushed naive young...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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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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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
Historian Elizabeth Cox writes on the Spinoff about the surprises she uncovered during the process of writing Making Space: A history of New Zealan...
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Hastings reviewed in Kete
Peter Simpson reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for Kete: ‘'An element which runs through all of Frizzell’s multiple activi...
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Raiment reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
A review of Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment has been published in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘Jan Kemp emerged as a leading young New Zealand poet in the ‘70...
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Dave West
Emeritus Professor Dave West was formerly at the Institute of Veterinary Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University
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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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Katie Pickles’ speech from the launch of With Them Through Hell
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War – launch held on 15 November at Scorpio Books, Christchurch. Speech gi...
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Extract from Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
In Sally Gordon’s inner city villa in Auckland, the central hallway is lined with photographs of four generations of her family. Among them are two...
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Christmas hours at the Press
The Press will be on holiday from midday 21 December 2018 to 14 January 2019. We will be checking emails occasionally, so let us know if your inqui...
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The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler: ReadingRoom’s Book of the Week
Sally Blundell reviews Mary Kisler’s book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — A daughter's tale for ReadingRoom: ‘On a tattered Red Cross map, four near...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Chris Reed has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous, the fourth and latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, for NZ Booklovers. She says of t...
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10 Questions with the editors of Tū Rangaranga
Q1: What is the meaning of Tū Rangaranga and what impact did that have on how the book was written? In 2017 we (Rand Hazou, Margaret Forster and Sh...
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts
Kaewa the Kororā has been reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts this month: ‘This is a gorgeous book with appealing and informative text alongside warm...
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Paul Moon interviewed on Different Matters by Damien Grant
Damien Grant in conversation with Paul Moon about his latest book Ans Westra: A life in photography: ‘Evan Paul Moon is a New Zealand historian, a...
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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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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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Andrew Colarik
Dr Andrew Colarik is a senior lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
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Anna Dickson
Dr Anna Dickson is a New Zealand freelance writer and editor.
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Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright.
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Barbara Sumner
Barbara Sumner has worked in film and journalism, and is a graduate of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
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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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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is an investigative artist and researcher based at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts
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Bruce Foster
Bruce Foster’s current photographs consider the impacts on nature of political decisions and corporate actions.
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Catherine Bagnall
Catherine Bagnall is an internationally recognised artist who teaches at the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi, Massey University.
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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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Clare Ladyman
Clare Ladyman completed her research studies at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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Damian Skinner
Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and former museum curator.
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Damien Wilkins
Damien Wilkins has published novels, collections of short stories and a book of poems.
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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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Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
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Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell has taught Chinese language, literature and history at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Ella Kahu
Ella Kahu is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University. Her disciplinary background is social psychology and education and her primary research focus is in student experiences in higher education.
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Eugene Hansen
Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington.
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Girol Karacaoglu
Girol Karacaoglu is head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Graham Hassall
Graham Hassall is an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Hannah Mooney
Hannah Mooney is a lecturer at Massey University’s School of Social Work.
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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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Helen Schamroth
Helen Schamroth ONZM has been writing about craft, design and art for more than four decades
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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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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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James Hollings
James Hollings is Associate Professor of Journalism at Massey University, Wellington.
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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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Jennifer Gillam
Jennifer Gillam is a photographer, writer and exhibiting multimedia artist.
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Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor works closely with the Edith Collier Trust Collection on a daily basis as Curator of Collections at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.
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Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Hansen is a well-known writer and podcaster about architecture and urbanism.
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Jo Smith
Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Māori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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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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Karen Denyer
Karen Denyer, MSc, Dip Envt Mgt, is the Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust (NWT) and a freelance ecologist.
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Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is a freelance journalist, administrator and event manager.
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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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Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
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Ken Downie
Ken Downie is freelance photographer and has worked as a photojournalist for Metro, North & South and the New Zealand Listener.
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Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne is the founding editor of New Zealand Geographic and has written extensively for that magazine and for its American counterpart, National Geographic.
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Kevin Stafford
Kevin Stafford is a veterinarian with interests in many aspects of agriculture.
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Lana McCarthy
Dr Lana McCarthy is a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
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Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
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Leigh Signal
Leigh Signal is associate professor and portfolio director, Fatigue Management and Sleep Health, at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington.
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Luke Smythe
Dr Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history, art theory and curatorship in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne.
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Mark Amery
Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation.
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Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
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Mark Derby
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond was born in Ohakune and grew up in small North Island towns. He has an MA in English language and literature from Victoria University of Wellington (1977) and a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2013).
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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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Michael Belgrave
Professor Michael Belgrave is a foundation member of Massey University’s Albany campus, and a highly regarded historian.
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Michael Petherick
Debut novelist Michael Petherick lives, writes and plays music in Wellington, New Zealand
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Nan Blanchard
Nan Blanchard is a counsellor who also teaches in the Counselling and Guidance Programmes at the Institute of Education, Massey University.
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Nicholas Sneddon
Dr Nicholas Sneddon is a senior lecturer in animal breeding and genetics at Massey University.
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Nick Allen
Nick Allen is a passionate tramper and climber who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when he was just 25. He has set up a scholarship fund to help others with MS get outdoors.
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Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
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Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
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Penny Payne
Penny Payne is a social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Hamilton.
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Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian.
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Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
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Rawiri Taonui
Dr Rawiri Taonui (Te Hikutū and Ngāti Korokoro, Te Kapotai and Ngāti Paeahi, Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Whēru, Ngāti Te Taonui) is an independent writer, researcher and advisor.
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Richard Laven
Richard Laven BVSc is Professor in Production Animal Health and Welfare and Group Leader of Farm Services, School of Veterinary Science, at Massey University.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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Robyn Salisbury
Robyn Salisbury is a registered clinical psychologist and sex therapist
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Sara McIntyre
Sara McIntyre moved from Wellington to the King Country in 2010. While working as a district nurse at Taumarunui Hospital she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer.
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Sarika Rona
Sarika Rona is of Taranaki Tūturu, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tainui descent and is an educational psychologist.
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Sophie Jerram
Sophie Jerram works with artists in community, government and academic roles.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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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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Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley is a former broadcaster and Green MP
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Tim Denee
Tim Denee is a Wellington-based designer who has worked across a range of disciplines.