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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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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 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 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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Whiti Hereaka, author of You Are Here, interviewed on Bookenz
Author Whiti Hereaka talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about her latest book You Are Here, in collaboration with artist Peata Larkin. You can listen...
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You Are Here reviewed in Otago Daily Times
Jessie Neilson reviews You Are Here for Otago Daily Times: ‘You Are Here, the sixth of Massey University Press' kōrero series, places the individu...
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You Are Here is NZ Listener’s book of the day
Sally Blundell reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Listener: ‘You - are - here. On a location map in a park or reserve, t...
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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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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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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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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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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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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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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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Sleeping Better in Pregnancy
Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby
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10 Questions with 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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Massey University Press welcomes proposals from both Massey researchers and authors outside the university that fit our publishing programme, which...
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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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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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‘If you know a child who is interested in wildlife, then you know a child who will love this book’ — Corpus reviews How to Mend a Kea
Sue Wootton, co-editor of Corpus, reviews How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt: ‘If you know a chil...
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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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Tree of Strangers
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery
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The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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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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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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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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Tū Rangaranga Ebook
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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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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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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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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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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Tūtira Mai ebook
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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50 Years Young
The colourful history of New Zealand’s best-loved farming contest
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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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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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Hazel and the Snails
A debut novel destined to become a classic
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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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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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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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The Dark Dad
The damage done to a family by war
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Rebooting the Regions
Expert essays on how to combat the pull of Auckland and get the regions humming
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Conversātiō
Renowned photographer focuses on the importance of bees
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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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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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Ones That Bit Me!
A young vet’s experiences with cows and camels
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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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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Experience of a Lifetime
A fresh look at the World War I experience
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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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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Fifty Years a Feminist
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Downfall
An important new history considered through a queer lens
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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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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground?
A gorgeous board book for young readers and their whānau
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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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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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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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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Noel O'Hare
Noel O’Hare is a freelance journalist, columnist, blogger and author.
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Howard Davis on Me, According to the History of Art
‘Me, According to the History of Art provides the kind of art history education you never had, but wished you did.’ Read the full review here.
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Claire Robinson features on TVNZ’s Q + A
If you missed it, check out Promises Promises author Claire Robinson's appearance on TVNZ’s Q+A here.
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Watch Suzy Cato read Kaewa the Kororā for Suzy’s Book Corner
Suzy Cato has selected Kaewa the Kororā to read on Suzy’s Book Corner. You can watch her reading here.
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed on Nine to Noon
Ash Davida Jane reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter. You can listen here.
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The Unsettled reviewed on Nine to Noon
Airini Beautrais reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw. You can listen here.
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Richard Shaw interviewed on Saturday Morning
Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation, is interviewed on Saturday Morning for RNZ. You can listen to the interview...
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Jessica Hutchings, author of Pātaka Kai, interviewed on bFM
Jessica Hutchings, one of the authors of Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty is interviewed by Beth for 95bFM. You can listen here.
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Mary Kisler on RNZ’s Bookmarks
Mary Kisler joins Jesse Mulligan on RNZ’s Bookmarks. You can listen to their conversation here.
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Against the Odds reviewed on Heritage Matters
Bill Southworth reviews Against the Odds by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway for Heritage Matters. You can listen to the review here.
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Grown Ups reviews Tooth and Veil
‘Any residual hard feelings you may still be harbouring about the pain that was inflicted on you in the ‘‘Murder House’’ will more than likely be d...
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Read an extract from With Them Through Hell
To commemorate Armistice Day, the New Zealand Listener has featured an extract from Anna Roger’s book With Them Through Hell. You can read it here.
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Johanna Emeney talks with Morrin Rout on Bookenz
Morrin Rout dives into the background to Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing’s book Sylvia and the Birds. You can listen to the interview with Jo here.
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Tracey Slaughter interviewed for Culture 101
Culture 101’s Mark Amery interviews Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024. You can listen to the full interview here.
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Peter Walker interviewed on Nine to Noon
Kathryn Ryan interviews Peter Walker about his latest book Hard by the Cloud House on Nine to Noon. You can listen to the interview here.
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Pātaka Kai reviewed by Emma Hislop on RNZ
Emma Hislop reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for RNZ’s Nine to Noon. You can listen to the review here.
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Mary Kisler interviewed on RNZ’s Saturday Morning
RNZ’s Mihingarangi Forbes speaks to Mary Kisler, author of The Dark Dad — War and trauma: a daughter’s tale. You can listen to the interview here.
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Hastings reviewed on RNZ Afternoons
Catherine Robertson reviews Dick Frizzel's latest book Hastings: A boy's own adventure on RNZ's Afternoons. You can listen here.
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Mark Adams interviewed on Bookenz
Mark Adams talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua. You can listen to the episode here.
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Hazel Phillips on RNZ’s Nine to Noon
Hazel Phillips, author of Fire & Ice talks to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ’s Nine to Noon. You can listen to their conversation here.
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Short | Poto reviewed on RNZ’s Nights
Emile Donovan talks to editors Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong about their book Short | Poto on RNZ’s Nights. You can listen here.
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Hone Waengarangi Morris interviewed on Waatea News
Dale Husband interviews Hone Waengarangi Morris about his new book Tūmahi Māori. You can listen to the interview here.
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Local Tools for Global Change
Research papers informed by the UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, and based on using local tools to effect global change
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Proof
A gorgeous celebration of contemporary printmaking
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The Poems of the 2020 Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
You can now read all the winning entries 2020 Poetry NZ Student Poetry Competition here. The first prize winners will be published in Poetry New Ze...
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Watch the online launch of Raiment: A Memoir
Jan Kemp’s new book Raiment: A Memoir was launched online in April to an international audience from Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and e...
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Sylvia and the Birds shortlisted for children's book awards
The judges of the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have shortlisted Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing’s Sylvia and the Birds...
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The Sun Is a Star extract on Newsroom
‘When I was little I used to lie awake in bed trying to get my head around the idea of infinity. How could the universe have no end? No boundary? W...
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Anna Rogers on RNZ’s The Panel
Anna Rogers talked to RNZ’s Jim Mora on The Panel about her recently released book With Them Through Hell and the armistice day commemorations. You...
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Kim Hill talks to Damian Skinner
Kim Hill from RNZ’s Saturday Morning programme recently interviewed Damian Skinner about this biography of Theo Schoon. You can listen to the fasci...
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David Hill reviews Raiment for Nine to Noon
David Hill has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp for RNZ’s Nine to Noon. He says ‘it’s this ability to extract the significant . . . that really disting...
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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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Ian McGibbon talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Ian McGibbon, author of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, talked with Kathryn Ryan on Wednesday about the book and the history of the Minis...
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Ian McGibbon interviewed on Māori Television
Editor of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history Ian McGibbon was recently interviewed on Māori Television to talk about this new publication. Y...
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Rooms appears on homestyle’s reading list
Philippa Prentice has reviewed Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh for homestyle’s reading list. You...
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Kennedy Warne interviewed on Bookenz
Kennedy Warne recently talked to Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout on the Bookenz podcast about his new book Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning...
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Bookenz interviews Colin Monteath about his book Erebus
Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout talk to Colin Monteath about his book Erebus: The Ice Dragon, on Bookenz, a weekly programme that brings you the latest o...
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Kiran Dass reviews Living Between Land and Sea on RNZ
Kiran Dass reviews Living Between Land & Sea: The Bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson published by Massey University Press —...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed on Nine to Noon
Sally Wenley has reviewed The Crewe Murders:Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case by James Hollings & Kirsty Johnston on Nine to Noon....
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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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Peter Walker, author of Hard by the Cloud House, interviewed on Bookenz
Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout talk to Peter Walker about his new book Hard by the Cloud House on Bookenz, a weekly programme that brings you the latest...
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Jacqueline Leckie interviewed on Waatea News’ Paakiwaha
On Waatea News’ Paakiwaha, Dale Husband interviews Jacqueline Leckie about Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New...
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Jane Ussher talks to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ’s Afternoons
Jesse Mulligan of RNZ’s Afternoons speaks to Jane Ussher about her work on Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand written b...
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Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings, interviewed on Bookenz
Morrin Rout talks to Dick Frizzell about his book Hastings: A boy’s own adventure on Bookenz, a weekly programme that brings you the latest on...
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Mary Kisler, author of The Dark Dad, interviewed on Bookenz
Author Mary Kisler talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about her latest book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale. You can listen to the ep...
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How I Write — Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell tells Stuff how he writes: ‘Which book do you wish you'd written and why? Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Because Yuval nailed it. It’...
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Britt Mann interviews Barbara Sumner
Britt Mann interviews Barbara Sumner, author of moving new memoir Tree of Strangers. Britt Mann: In your book, you challenge narratives around adop...
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Order a framed print of a Ward map sheet
To support the substantial cost of publication, author Elizabeth Cox is selling framed copies of individual sheets from the Thomas Ward map of Well...
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Jan Kemp interviewed on Bookenz about her memoir Raiment
Morrin Rout from Bookenz interviewed Jan Kemp on her memoir Raiment. She noted that ‘it brings the reader right next door to you.’ Jan says of writ...
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‘History enlivened’ – Deborah Shepard talks to Karen Craig
Karen Craig, from PlanetFM’s Books and Beyond, recently interviewed Deborah Shepard about her new book, The Writing Life, a brilliant and intimate...
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ArtZone reviews Finding Frances Hodgkins
Dr Joanne Drayton reviews Finding Frances Hodgkins for ArtZone: ‘The format of Finding Frances Hodgkins is intimate, so it can be easily carried. T...
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Damien Wilkins’ ‘virtual’ launch speech
Due to concerns about coronavirus we were unable to launch Damien Wilkins’ new novel Aspiring last night, but Newsroom helped out by hosting a virt...
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Invisible features on New Books Network podcast
Jacqueline Leckie has featured on the New Books Network podcast in conversation with Amir Sayadabdi, a lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria Univers...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? features on Storytime at Wellington City Libraries
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi’s second book Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? has been featured on Storytime at Wellington City Librar...
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John Walsh talks Wellington architecture on Nine to Noon
John Walsh talks to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ’s Nine to Noon about Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, the latest and largest of his architectural...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook editor Tracey Slaughter talks to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons
Editor for the second year running, Tracey Slaughter talks to Jesse Mulligan about the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook’s beginnings, its new name — its ‘n...
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Paul Diamond reviews The South Island of New Zealand from the Road on RNZ
Paul Diamond has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on Nine to Noon. You can listen to the...
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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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Jonathan West reviews The Fate of the Land by Danny Keenan
Danny Keenan’s latest book The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era 1891–1912 has been revie...
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Kennedy Warne gives an interview from French Polynesia on Nine to Noon
Kennedy Warne published his memoir Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea in June this year, and he talked to Kathryn Ryan from Ra‘iate...
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Urgent Moments co-editors interviewed on 95bFM
95bFM host Frances Chan speaks to two of the three co-editors, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, about their new book Urgent Moments: Art and social ch...
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Urgent Moments’ Amber Clausner interviewed on RNZ
One of the co-editors of Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 by Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram and Amber Clausne...
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Rewi co-author Jade Kake talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Jade Kake co-authored Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere with Jeremy Hansen. She talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon about the book, as well as about Chec...
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Urgent Moments' Mark Avery interviewed on Te Pae
Andrew Armitage talks to Mark Amery and fellow Paekakarki artists Vanessa Crowe and Tim Barlow on community radio show Te Pae, about Urgent Moments...
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Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!, interviewed on Bookenz
Morrin Rout talks to Marcus Taylor about his book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels cows and other young-vet stories on Bookenz, a weekly programme that...
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Adam Claasen, author of Grid, interviewed on Bookenz
Morrin Rout talks to Adam Claasen about his book Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell on Bookenz, a weekly progra...
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Kate de Goldi reviews Edith Collier on RNZ’s Saturday Morning
Kate de Goldi, RNZ’s ‘voracious reader’, shares her thoughts on Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylo...
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Annette O’Sullivan talks to Jamie Mackay about Woolsheds on The Country
Jamie Mackay chats to Annette O’Sullivan about her new book on The Country, Newstalk ZB. ‘The author of Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of A...
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Graduation Bundle — a bundle of books to celebrate graduation
A terrific graduation offer to you from Massey University Press. Three great books that feature our university: From Empire’s Servant to Global Cit...
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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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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō
Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō for Home Style: ‘Could this book be any more magical? Its author, Anne Noble, is one of Aotearoa’s preeminent...
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Deborah Shepard
Deborah Shepard is an author, teacher of memoir, oral historian and film and art historian.
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Guy Jansen
In 2011 the late Dr Guy Jansen (1935–2019) was awarded a MNZM for services to music. He was a renowned music educator and choral musician, and in 1979 founded the New Zealand Youth Choir — reputed to be the first national youth choir in the world.
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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 Dollery
Helen Dollery is an historian and lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, teaching citizenship as part of the Bachelor of Arts core courses.
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Hone Morris
Associate Professor Dr Hone Waengarangi Morris (Ngāi Te Rangitotohu, Ngāti Mārau, Ngāti Maru, Ngāi Te Ao Kāpiti) is a member of the leadership team in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Massey University.
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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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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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Lana McCarthy
Dr Lana McCarthy is a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
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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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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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Paul Diamond
Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Rand Hazou
Rand Hazou is a Palestinian-Kiwi theatre practitioner and scholar whose research explores theatre engaging with rights and social justice.
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Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is an author, editor and book reviewer.
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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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Poetry Box reviews Hazel and the Snails
Paula Green at Poetry Box reviews Hazel and the Snails. ‘Nan’s book is snail paced and that is a very good thing because when you read at the pace...
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The RNZ Cookbook editor David Cohen shares his best dinner party mixtape on RNZ
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers editor David Cohen shares his best dinner party mi...
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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Geographic
Catherine Woulfe reviews Mark Adams: A survey — He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Geographic: ‘Mark Adams was always, in his words, “the white boy in th...
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Barbara Sumner in conversation with her daughter Bonnie Sumner
Bonnie Sumner: You’ve been writing since you were young – you were once an award-winning columnist – and now you’re completing your masters at Vict...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Front Line
‘There are spectacular images of the air force in action, as well as naval warfare. In one photo, there is a confronting image of a flying officer...
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How I write — Jacqueline Leckie
Which book had such an impact on you that you bought it for your friends? Epeli Hau’ofa’s Tales of the Tikongs. It was witty, political, set on a...
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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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Paul Diamond reviews Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide for RNZ’s Nine to Noon
Paul Diamond has reviewed the latest in what he calls ‘a really interesting little series’ of architectural city guides by John Walsh and Patrick R...
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Sylvia and the Birds features on The Sapling
The Sapling editor and picture book author Linda Jane Keegan has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how...
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Massey Press August newsletter
We’re very proud of our two August books, Adam Claasen’s superb biography of First World War pilot hero Keith Caldwell, and Marcus Taylor’s endeari...
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Marcus Taylor talks to Di Campbell and Tom Francis on Rhema Afternoons
Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories, talks to Di Campbell and Tom Francis on Rhema Afternoons:...
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Tracey Slaughter talks poetry with Jesse Muligan
Friday is international poetry day, and we are delighted, thrilled, positively effervescent to announce that - after taking a hiatus last year - ou...
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Corpus reviews With Them Through Hell
Sue Wootton at Corpus reviews Anna Rogers’ With Them Through Hell. ‘With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War is...
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Living Between Land and Sea author Jane Robertson talks to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ
Author Jane Robertson spoke to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about her new book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbou...
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Richard Shaw responds to critics of The Unsettled on Newsroom
Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation responds to critics in a piece published by Newsroom: ‘A couple of years ago I...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed on the Poetry Box
Len Lye (1901 – 1980) was an artist who loved making paintings, movies, sculptures, photographs without a camera, poems. He loved EXPERIMENTING and...
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10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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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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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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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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Extraordinary tales of WWI flying live up to hyperbole in book’s subtitle
Alister Browne reviews Fearless at stuff.co.nz: ‘This handsome volume, the latest in the centenary history programme series, amply lives up to the...
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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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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 reviewed on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, edited by Tracey Slaughter, for Kete. ‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 is a sub...
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Kim Hill talks to Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing
The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland’s Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part envi...
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Shaun Barnett reviews Sylvia and the Birds on Nine to Noon
‘The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland’s Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part env...
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Downfall shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the...
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The setting for Paul Diamond’s book Downfall becomes New Zealand’s first rainbow listing of a significant building
’The site where Whanganui's former mayor shot a returned soldier who was threatening to expose him as homosexual is New Zealand's first rainbow lis...
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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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South Island of New Zealand From the Road reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on the Poetry Shelf blog: ‘Road trips ta...
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for 20 years. She has just compiled one of the most...
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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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Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
Ensemble has featured Lil O’Brien's essay ‘Our American fertility dream’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent ed...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Your book has just gone to print. Pleased with it? Well, you can never be really certain about a book until it is printed — but, yes, I think the b...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1 Two years on from the first publication date and already a major update. How so? Auckland has already yielded more buildings and, just as impor...
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Read an extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
avalancheBy Mark Prisco iwhen you name something you demystify it, break taboo.even ‘Tiger’ is emasculate compared to what it is.in this way, too,...
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Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom
Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom: ‘Anyone with an Indian passport resident in New Zealand would be familiar with one absurdity t...
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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
Q1: Your Waikato childhood must have seemed so far away and so long ago when you sat down to write about it in Germany. How hard was it to tap into...
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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 Question Q&A with Hazel Phillips
Q1: You’ve gone adventuring all over the motu, and we know comparisons are invidious, but what makes the hikes and climbs around Ruapehu so very sp...
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Aspiring wins Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2020 CYA awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2019
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2019 we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition 2019, judged by...
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Kids Books NZ reviews Skinny Dip
‘One of the (many) joys of reviewing, is never knowing just what treasure lies waiting inside the courier package. These treasures are sometimes on...
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The Forgotten Coast reviewed in Landfall
Landfall has published a comparative review by Rachel Smith of Richard Shaw’s memoir The Forgotten Coast and David Young’s Wai Pasifika: Indigenous...
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Lyn Potter reviews Sylvia and the Birds on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds, and how you can, too! on NZ Booklovers. She says of the b...
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Poetry Shelf review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
Poetry Shelf’s Paula Green reviews this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, reflecting on discovering new voices and old connections. ‘Reading poetry...
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Hastings reviewed in 03 Magazine
Neville Templeton reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for 03 Magazine: ‘Acclaimed NZ painter Dick Frizzell has written his mem...
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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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10 Questions with Damien Wilkins
Q1: A YA novel! What’s the story here? I have no idea! At no point did I think ‘I must write a YA novel’. I’d always wanted to write about the Gate...
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Five Questions for James Hollings
Compiling A Moral Truth would have required its own kind of investigation, tracking down the articles you include. How did you choose them? There w...
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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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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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The Soundtrack of my Childhood by Maria Majsa: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Maria Majsa’s yearning for a happy childhood and later a personal rebellion are reflected in her music choices. 1. Penny Lane This is my first memo...
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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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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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Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star
Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star for NZ Poetry Box: ‘Dick Frizzell’s The Sun Is a Star is a dazzling book, which is just what you want in a bo...
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Zak Holland reviews A Queer Existence
Zak Holland reviews A Queer Existence for Tui Motu: ‘A Queer Existence is an important, impactful and emotional book. If you’re not familiar with...
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David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast
David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast for Kete: ‘Years back, Elizabeth Smither and I wrote a book about our home province of Taranaki. Around that...
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Morrin Rout speaks with Matt McEvoy for Bookenz
Morrin Rout spoke with Matt McEvoy on Bookenz this week about 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘When I was a gay kid gro...
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Paula Green reviews the 2022 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Paula Green has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 for NZ Poetry Shelf. She writes: ‘Tracey Slaughter’s introduction sidesteps the traditio...
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John Walsh reveals his favourite Oriental Parade buildings
The Herald has run an article by Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide author John Walsh; in it, he shares some of what makes Wellington a uniqu...
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Jan Kemp talks to Kim Hill about Raiment: A Memoir
Kim Hill has interviewed Jan Kemp about her new memoir, Raiment on RNZ’s Saturday Morning. ‘Jan Kemp burst onto the New Zealand poetry scene in the...
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Kete Books reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘In an eggshell, Sylvia and the Birds pays homage to Sylvia Durrant, who looked after 140,000 New Zealand birds during her 35 years as a bird rescu...
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Read an extract from Kiwi Bikers
‘The only times I ever get called by my real name is by the police or someone I went to school with,’ says Miss Purple, a steampunkster from Ōamaru...
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Watch conservation architect Chessa Stevens talk about her chapter in Making Space at Futuna Chapel
This talk occurred at Futuna Chapel, Karori, Wellington on 7 November 2022 for Wellington Heritage Week 2022. Elizabeth Cox, architectural historia...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on The Sapling
Linda Jane Keegan has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too! by Johanna Emeney and Sarah L...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on Ako
Jody Anderson has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing....
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Ngātokimatawhaorua shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Jeff Evans’ immersive and compelling Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka is rubbing shoulders with three other fantast...
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Old Black Cloud author Jacqueline Leckie talks to Emile Donovan on RNZ
Author Jacqueline Leckie speaks to Emile Donovan on RNZ’s Nights about her new book Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aot...
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Short | Poto reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for Waiheke Weekender: ‘Have you every tried writing a short sto...
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10 Questions with David Cohen
Q1: How would you describe this book? It’s not a biography and nor is it a ghost-written memoir. So what is it? A conversational memoir. In the obv...
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10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: After working your way through the history of Western art for your last book, was it a relief to look up at the sun and the stars? Not so much...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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MUP authors shortlisted for CYA book awards
We are thrilled to announce that three of our books have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In the you...
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Twelve questions with author Pip Desmond
The New Zealand Herald caught up with Pip Desmond to talk about her book Song for Rosaleen: Author Pip Desmond writes about the difficulties of car...
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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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Adopted reviewed in North & South
Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion, the memoir by Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker about finding their respective birth families, was recently rev...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with the editors of Otherhood
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essaycollection, Ithaca, was published in 2023. Lil O’Brien (she/her) i...
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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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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
Q1: The subject is a wide-ranging one and the book covers a lot of ground. Who do you see as the target reader? The target readers are high schoo...
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Habitat by Resene chat to Rooms author Jane Ussher
Photographer Jane Ussher is well known for her ability to make even the most hesitant or nervous characters come to life in front of the camera. Fo...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with James Hollings
1. When you first started thinking about this collection of investigative journalism, what was your hope for it?I teach a course on investigative j...
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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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The Whereabouts of Sinbad’s Isle
Jack Ross reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Landfall Review Online: ‘Travel writing is the least demanding of genres. You can wri...
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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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Newsroom runs an extract from ‘the superb new memoir Raiment by Jan Kemp’
Newsroom has run an extract from Jan Kemp’s ‘superb new memoir’, Raiment. ‘In English I, our lectures included An Introduction to Shakespeare by Ma...
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Three brilliant reviews of The Writing Life
Lesley Vlietstra has reviewed The Writing Life, by Deborah Shepard, for the Booksellers NZ blog: ‘There are so many things to like about this book,...
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Take a tour of MacKay’s Whanganui, as explored in Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall
The publication of Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall: The Destruction of Charles MacKay is leading many to see Whanganui’s history in a new light. R...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Cynthia Farquhar
Q1: In your introduction you describe how thinking about your mother’s difficult experience at the Otago Medical School in the late 1940s, and in t...
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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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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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‘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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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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Read an 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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Hazel Phillips talks about Fire & Ice — NZ Booklovers
Hazel Phillips, author of Fire & Ice talks to NZ Booklovers about her process: ‘Can you tell us a little about the new book? Fire & Ice i...
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. Year 11 category winners: 1st: ‘275 Love Let...
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Acclaimed author Peter Wells on finding friends in the isolation of illness
Anneke Smith at Hawke’s Bay Today talks to Peter Wells: Reading Peter Wells’ posts about living with cancer is not as morbid or frightening as one...
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Read an extract from Song for Rosaleen
Stuff.co.nz features an extract of Pip Desmond’s memoir Song for Rosaleen: This extract from Pip Desmond’s new book Song for Rosaleen is an unflinc...
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48 Hours in Matakana
Less than an hour’s drive from Auckland, Matakana is the ideal region to escape to for a weekend where the focus is on well-being to recharge body...
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Ten questions with Matt McEvoy for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published Ten Questions with Matt McEvoy to celebrate the release of 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Ze...
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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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BikesportNZ.com calls Kiwi Bikers a ‘must-have for any collection’
BikesportNZ.com has called Ken Downie’s book Kiwi Bikers: 85 New Zealanders and their motorbikes a ‘must-have for any collection’ in their latest r...
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Inside New Zealand’s most inspiring rooms
‘About a decade and a half ago, after 30 years photographing people for the New Zealand Listener, Jane Ussher left the magazine and developed a new...
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Nicholas Reid reviews Shadow Worlds
Reviewer Nicholas Reid has written a detailed piece on Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand: ‘I’ll...
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Ziggle! reviewed on The Sapling
Ziggle! is an accessible and fun book of art activities put together by Rebecca Fawkner. Rebecca was able to take the knowledge and skills of the t...
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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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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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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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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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Our First Foreign War review
‘If you like your history richly-layered then this is just the title for you, with the added bonus that it covers a part of the New Zealand story n...
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Rooms wins NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023
Rooms: Portraits of Remarkable New Zealand Interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh has won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023. Ju...
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10 Questions with Clare Ladyman
Q1: Getting enough sleep is a huge issue for many people today, what drew you to sleep during pregnancy in particular? I was a brilliant slee...
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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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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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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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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan discusses Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with editors Alie Benge, Lil O’Bri...
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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 Beth Greener
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Army Fundamentals? What pleases me most about the book is the fact that many of the contr...
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HomeGround reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Bill McKay has reviewed Simon Wilson’s HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives in Architecture New Zealand: ‘Auckland City Mission’s...
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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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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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Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips
Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips about her new book Fire & Ice: After publishing Solo, about adventuring alone in Aotearoa New Zealand’...
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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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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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The Unsettled author Richard Shaw interviewed for Stuff
George Heagney interviews Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for Stuff: ‘Author and Massey University profes...
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Life at the bach is ‘about experiences, not stuff’
REVIEW: Herbst: Architecture in Context by John Walsh is a beautiful new book on Auckland architects Lance and Nicola Herbst’s award-winning work...
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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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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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10 Questions with Steven Loveridge
Q1: New Zealand emerges from the pages of The Home Front as a far more interesting and complex young nation than many readers might imagine. Could...
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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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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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10 Questions with 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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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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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018? I’m happy with the feature: the poems, interview and essa...
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Ten Question Q&A with Felicity Jones and Mark Smith
Q1: When did you first learn about the Wardian Case and its enabling of the transportation of live plants across continents and indeed hemispheres?...
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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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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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10 Questions with Lisa Cherrington and Sarika Rona
Q1: What prompted you to write this story? LC: Well, it was two things for me. One, a friend had just returned from overseas and she posted a pho...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2021 Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce that you can now read all the winning entries from the 2021 Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition here. The fir...
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Sam Brooks reviews HomeGround on the Spinoff
HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson was reviewed on the Spinoff in January. Sam Brooks writes: ‘I see HomeGround...
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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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Adam Claasen's Author Q&A in Sunday Star-Times
Adam Claasen, author of Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell, answers the Author Q&A for Sunday Star-Times: ‘...
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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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Book of the Week: The poets are revolting
Book of the Week: The poets are revolting Charles Bisley reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 for Newsroom. I was waiting at Upper Hutt station...
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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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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
Q1: Why Palmerston North? What prompted you to see this book in print? GW: It has been nearly 50 years since Petersen’s centennial history of Palme...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017? I think the thing I like best about it is the number of y...
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Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on the Spinoff
Read an extract from Lily Duval's essay from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien a...
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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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Carl Shuker’s launch speech for Aspiring
Launching Aspiring by Damien Wilkinsby Carl Shuker I remember interviewing Damien for his book Chemistry nearly twenty years ago. Our half-hour tal...
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Ten questions with Colin Monteath
Q1: You’ve visited Antarctica many times as a mountaineer and a photographer, as well as working at Scott Base. What was your role there? As the Fi...
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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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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Arts Review: ‘The current exhibition “Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohing...
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Poetry Shelf reviews the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Paula Green at the Poetry Shelf blog has reviewed the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018: ‘More and more I witness clusters of poetry communities in...
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The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
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Anthony Byrt reviews Theo Schoon: A biography for The Spinoff
Read Anthony Byrt’s brilliant and in-depth review of Theo Schoon: A biography by Damian Skinner: ‘Art history is a brutal discipline, which feeds o...
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New Zealand Geographic reviews Te Kupenga
‘Pistons, spark plugs, and small rocks are not objects that you would expect to find in the holdings of a prestigious national library. But the Ale...
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Otago Daily Times talks to the authors of Bordering on Miraculous
Rebecca Fox at the Otago Daily Times recently talked with Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the artist–writer duo behind Bordering on Miraculous: ‘H...
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Read a review of Raiment on takahē
Elizabeth Heritage has reviewed Raiment: A memoir by Jan Kemp for takahē. She writes: ‘Poet Jan Kemp has released the first volume of her memoir, R...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Geographic
In the seaside suburb of Kohimarama, Auckland, there’s a house that rises from the trees around it like an ancient Mayan temple: a giant stone-step...
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In the temple reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall’s most recent collaboration, in the temple, has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on New Zealand Arts...
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Eat Pacific reviewed in Viva
Viva magazine, subset of NZ Herald, reviews and presents recipes from Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Ol...
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Dick Frizzell: 'I had my own private world all to myself that no one could enter'
Iconic New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell grew up as one of six kids, in a small town, where there was only room for one arty one, as he puts it. His...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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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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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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Announcing the winning poems of the 2025 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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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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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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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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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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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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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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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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Grid reviewed in the Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation
Gary Connor reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for the Journal of the Air Force Histori...
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10 Questions with Deborah Shepard
1. It must be good to see The Writing Life sent off to print. It’s a strange feeling letting go of a manuscript that has occupied your every waking...
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Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts & Spies, by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou...
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10 Questions with 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 Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
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Read an extract from Fire & Ice
CHAPTER 11 The legend of the Haunted Whare A small shack near Tawhai Falls below the Chateau was reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman searchin...
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about National Security: Challenges, Trends and Issues? We really like the cover. We tried to use...
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Jesse Mulligan talks with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book for te reo learners
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi, author of bilingual board books Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are...
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Ziggle! author Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on RNZ
Rebecca Fawkner worked at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, home of the Len Lye Centre, for 20 years. Her passion for sparking curiosity...
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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 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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Booksellers NZ reviews Fearless
The Booksellers NZ blog has published a glowing review of Fearless: The extraordinary untold story of New Zealand’s Great War airmen by Adam Claase...
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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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Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
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Bordering on Miraculous reviewed in VOLUME
Thomas Koed gives an excellent review of the latest in the kōrero series, Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, in VOLUME new...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Unsettled: Book of the Week on Newsroom
Sally Blundell reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Newsroom: ‘In Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence, Fl...
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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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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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10 Questions with 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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Read an extract from Everything But the Medicine
‘Death at home My mother died at home, surrounded by family. We read her Lauris Edmond and Hone Tuwhare and she seemed soothed. Then she took off h...
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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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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: When did you first come across this remarkable map, with its detailed drawings of verandahs, sheds, street lights, street levels, construction...
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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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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh
Q1: Wellington Architecture: A walking guide was first published in 2022 and has been incredibly successful, and now there’s a revised edition. Wha...
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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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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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ANZL reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Ian Wedde has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones. ‘At firs...
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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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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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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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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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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
Disclaimer: The following comments reflect the personal opinion of the writer, and do not reflect either an official NZDF position, or the opinion...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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Read an extract from The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
In 1985, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I took him to the hospital for surgery, and was allowed to sit with him before he was wheeled in...
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Ten questions with Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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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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How to Mend a Kea announced as a Storylines Notable Book
We are thrilled that How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital has made it onto the Storylines Notable Books list. The...
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Jack Ross talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
The 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook includes 130 new poems from 87 poets. It has a skew for 2018 towards younger writers including those who are s...
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Tooth and Veil virtual launch
To watch the virtual launch of Tooth and Veil: The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse by Noel O'Hare, click here. Bringing together...
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Michael Petherick talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
Wellington lawyer and musician Michael Petherick has now added published writer to his CV, and his debut novel is a finalist in the the New Zealand...
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Caroline Barron reviews Tree of Strangers
‘But before I go on, let’s talk about the physical beauty of the book. Lifting off the matt green dust jacket reveals a bright yellow hard cover an...
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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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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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Read an extract from 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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Eat Pacific author Robert Oliver interviewed in E-Tangata
Teuila Fuatai interviews Robert Oliver, the author of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook for E-Tangata: ‘Chef Robert Oliver h...
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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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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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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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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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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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Katūīvei reviewed on Kete
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Kete: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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#Tumeke! wins Best First Book Award at 2020 CYA Awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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A lively Q&A between Dick Frizzell and ArtZone
Dick Frizzell and ArtZone square off for a lively Q&A: What does a typical day look like? A typical day…? Answering questionnaires. Out to the...
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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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Kim Hill talks to Paul Diamond
In 1920 Whanganui residents were rocked by the news that their mayor had shot D'Arcy Cresswell, a young gay poet, who had been blackmailing him....
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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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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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10 questions with Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney
Q1: Why create a book for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations with China? The decision taken in December 1972 to establish diplomatic re...
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One Minute Crying Time reviewed — twice — on The Spinoff
‘Ewing writes that “we can only know the real plot of the story of a life, how one event led to another, in retrospect – and even then only perhaps...
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Melody Thomas interviews Sue Kedgley and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine
Melody Thomas sits down to interview Sue Kedgely and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine. ‘When Sue Kedgley was sworn in to parliament in 1999 arou...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? reviewed by Swings + Roundabouts
Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? review in Swings + Roundabouts: ‘This beautifully photographed board book follows a question/a...
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Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris talk to Kim Hill
Rainy day lunch times, kapa haka practice, first crushes and classroom pets are all captured in Skinny Dip, a new poetry anthology curated by Kate...
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Ingenio reviews A Queer Existence
Janet McAllister reviews A Queer Existence for Ingenio: 'It was a chance encounter a decade ago with the late, great art historian Professor Jonath...
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Marcus Taylor talks to Paddy Gower on RNZ
Marcus Taylor graduated from Massey University 11 years ago - his life as a vet has been pretty action packed since then. He's about to move from...
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Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra by Paul Moon
Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits: 'A very attractive book and a fascin...
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Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud
Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud, by Jacqueline Leckie, Unity Books Wellington, 12 June 2024 Thank you Nicola, thank you Jacqui....
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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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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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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Herald
Joan Rosier-Jones has reviewed this ‘long awaited’ history of Charles Mackay in the Whanganui Chronicle. She calls Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The Des...
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Remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen Kós at the launch of From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen Launch remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen KósPresident of the Court of Appeal and former Pro-Chancellor of...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in The Aero Historian
Errol W. Martyn reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for The Aero Historian: ‘Grid was a...
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Extract from 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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Read an extract from Short | Poto
Claudia Jardine A gift to their daughters ‘Textile manufacture’ is the sound my mother makes when she tries to speak with a needle held between he...
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75 years since New Zealand handed Nazi Germany its first land defeat of WWII
Glyn Harper recently talked to Newshub’s Tony Wright about the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, and his new book releasing this month:...
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City Art Depot lists Theo Schoon biography as top art book of 2018
The City Art Depot has included Damian Skinner’s Theo Schoon: A Biography as one of its top 5 art books of 2018: ‘Probably the most important art b...
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An extract from Bill & Shirley
'Bill’s last year, the end of his journey, was a catastrophe. In the spring of 1974 he was arrested and charged with an offence under the Official...
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Sue Kedgley: 'It's time to feminise our world'
Sarah Catherall interviews Sue Kedgely for Your Weekend. ‘Sue Kedgley looks out her living room window at the wind battering Oriental Parade and b...
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Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris
Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry b...
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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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Kete reivews The Architect and the Artists
‘Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and The Artists is both a personal tribute to her father and a valuable record of an important moment in our cult...
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Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star
Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star for Kete: ‘Dick Frizzell is a popular and accomplished painter, print-maker and something of an art histor...
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Read an extract from Sylvia and the Birds on Newsroom
‘Newly rescued birds were always a bit skittish, so I kept them in this dark shelter. The ones who’d been with me a while enjoyed their playground...
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Rewi authors Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake speak to Mark Amery on Culture 101
Authors of the major publication Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, along with Rewi Thompson's daughter Lucy, recently spoke to...
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Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
Martin Edmond has reviewed the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe on ReadingRoom: ‘In the European t...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter for Poetry Shelf: ‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 24 is again edited by Tra...
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The Ones That Bit Me! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories for NZ Booklovers: ‘In his hilarious heartwa...
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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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Eat Pacific reviewed in The New York Times
Ligaya Mishan reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for The New York Times: ‘In Fiji, when bread...
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Greg Fleming reviews The Crewe Murders on Kete
Greg Fleming has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings on Kete: ‘The 1970...
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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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Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
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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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Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense
Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees, edited by Susette Goldsmith, for Kete. ‘In her introduction to this book of essays on...
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David Hill reviews The Front Line
‘What are the great war photos? Alexander Gardner’s rag bundles of Confederate dead after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. Capra’s Republican infantrym...
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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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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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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
Steve Braunias from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp. ‘We think of Rosemary McLeod, rightly, as one of New Zealand's great prose...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, was reviewed in North & South’s September book reviews. Paul Little says: ‘Th...
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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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Victor Rodger reviews Downfall on The Spinoff
Paul Diamond’s latest book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been reviewed on The Spinoff. Victor Rodger writes: ‘A closeted mayor wi...
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Read an extract of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Louise Callan, former journalist and friend of Robin Morrison, writes an introductory essay to the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand —...
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NZ Booklovers reviews the South Island of New Zealand From the Road
Lyn Potter has reviewed Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road, which was republished this month in a new edition. She says...
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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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The Unsettled reviewed in Taranaki Daily News
Helen Harvey reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for Taranaki Daily News (hosted on Stuff): ‘Richard Shaw’s second book has be...
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Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
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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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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
Simon Bridges recently reviewed Ian McGibbon’s ‘compendious, 564-page, multi-authored volume’ New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history on Newsroom:...
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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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Massey News reviews The Ones That Bit Me! by Marcus Taylor
Massey News reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories: ‘From the very first page, it’s evident Ma...
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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
Massey University Press is excited to be joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become the Press’s new...
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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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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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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Landfall
Jack Ross reviews Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood: ‘Whose attention would not be caught by t...
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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...