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500 resultsOn We Go reviewed in Ako Journal
Ako Journal has reviewed On We Go, the first collaboration between poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall. Sarah Barnett writes: ‘A collabora...
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...
Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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...
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...
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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,...
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...
Catherine Bagnall
Catherine Bagnall is an internationally recognised artist who teaches at the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi, Massey University.
10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
Ten questions with Jane Sayle and Catherine Bagnall
Q1: Your gorgeous previous collaboration, On We Go, was published in 2021. When did you decide to work together again on another one? On We Go was...
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On We Go
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Roger Smith’s speech from the Wellington launch of We Are Here
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We Are Here featured on Nine to Noon
Chris McDowall and Tim Denee, co-authors of We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa, were interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on RNZ's Nine to Noon programme. To...
Cartography Is Here — review essay of We Are Here
Igor Drecki reviews We Are Here for the International Journal of Cartography. ‘Originality is one of the prevailing strengths of the atlas, which m...
In the temple reviewed in North & South
The latest collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle, in the temple, has been reviewed in North & South: ‘Like their 2...
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...
A Tentative and Attentive Response
With In the Temple we might begin with ‘we’ rather than ‘I’, as this small, beautifully produced book is a collaboration between artist Catherine B...
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Jo Smith
Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Māori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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.
Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
John Walsh
John Walsh is the author of several major books on New Zealand architecture.
Karen Denyer
Karen Denyer, MSc, Dip Envt Mgt, is the Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust (NWT) and a freelance ecologist.
Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is a freelance journalist, administrator and event manager.
Kathryn van Beek
Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is the author of two children’s books and the short story collection Pet (2020), which is also available as a podcast.
Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
Ken Downie
Ken Downie is freelance photographer and has worked as a photojournalist for Metro, North & South and the New Zealand Listener.
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.
Kevin Stafford
Kevin Stafford is a veterinarian with interests in many aspects of agriculture.
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
Lana McCarthy
Dr Lana McCarthy is a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
Luke Smythe
Dr Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history, art theory and curatorship in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne.
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.
Mark Amery
Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation.
Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
Mark Derby
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian.
Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond was born in Ohakune and grew up in small North Island towns. He has an MA in English language and literature from Victoria University of Wellington (1977) and a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2013).
Mere Taito
Mere Taito is a poetry, flash fiction and short story writer and scholar of Rotuman heritage who is based in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
Michael Petherick
Debut novelist Michael Petherick lives, writes and plays music in Wellington, New Zealand
Monica Peters
Monica Peters works freelance at the interface between science, conservation and the public.
Nan Blanchard
Nan Blanchard is a counsellor who also teaches in the Counselling and Guidance Programmes at the Institute of Education, Massey University.
Nicholas Sneddon
Dr Nicholas Sneddon is a senior lecturer in animal breeding and genetics at Massey University.
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.
Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
Patrick Shepherd
Patrick Shepherd was an honorary Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2003/04, and in 2016 he visited the continent again as a tutor with a group of postgraduate students from the University of Canterbury, where he is a senior lecturer.
Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Peter Walker
Peter Walker began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Fox Boy.
Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian.
Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
Rawiri Taonui
Dr Rawiri Taonui (Te Hikutū and Ngāti Korokoro, Te Kapotai and Ngāti Paeahi, Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Whēru, Ngāti Te Taonui) is an independent writer, researcher and advisor.
Richard Laven
Richard Laven BVSc is Professor in Production Animal Health and Welfare and Group Leader of Farm Services, School of Veterinary Science, at Massey University.
Robyn Salisbury
Robyn Salisbury is a registered clinical psychologist and sex therapist
Sara McIntyre
Sara McIntyre moved from Wellington to the King Country in 2010. While working as a district nurse at Taumarunui Hospital she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer.
Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist.
Sarika Rona
Sarika Rona is of Taranaki Tūturu, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tainui descent and is an educational psychologist.
Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and works from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley is a former broadcaster and Green MP
Tim Denee
Tim Denee is a Wellington-based designer who has worked across a range of disciplines.
Victoria Wynne-Jones
Victoria Wynne-Jones is an art historian and curator, and an honorary research fellow in art history at the University of Auckland.
Whiti Hereaka
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Yvonne Taura
Yvonne Taura (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Uenuku, Ngāti Hauā) is a kairangahau Māori for Manaaki Whenua — Landcare Research, Hamilton, and is completing her PhD with the University of Waikato.
Judith Williams
Judith Williams was a descendant of early Pūhoi settlers and helped establish the Puhoi Historical Society.
Roger Buckton
Roger Buckton was an adjunct associate-professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He has lived in Pūhoi since 1990.
Ralf Heimrath
Dr Ralf Heimrath’s distinguished scholarly career encompasses teaching and leadership positions at a Bavarian open-air museum, the National University of Mongolia and the University of Malta.
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.
10 Questions with Glyn Harper
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
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10 Questions with Susette Goldsmith
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10 Questions with the editors of Otherhood
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Ten questions with Kennedy Warne
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10 Questions with Lisa Cherrington and Sarika Rona
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie
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10 Questions with Michael Keith and Chris Szekely
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell, co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
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10 Questions with Anne Ridler
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Adopted reviewed in North & South
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10 Questions with Helen Beaglehole
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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
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Ten Question Q&A with Cynthia Farquhar
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
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Read an extract from Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell
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10 Questions with Pip Desmond
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10 Questions with Nan Blanchard
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10 Questions with Adrienne Jansen
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Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
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10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
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Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
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10 Questions with the editors of Tū Rangaranga
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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
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Little Doomsdays reviewed on Kete
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Read an extract from The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
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10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
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Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
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10 Questions with Robyn Salisbury
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An excerpt from To the Summit
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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
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5 Questions with Hazel Phillips for Wilderness magazine
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Read an interview with David Cohen, editor of the RNZ Cookbook
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
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Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
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10 Questions with Tim Parkinson, Jakob Malmo, Jos Vermunt and Richard Laven
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How to Die by Jo Randerson: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
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10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
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‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
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10 Questions with Ken Downie
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James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
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10 Questions with Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
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BikesportNZ.com calls Kiwi Bikers a ‘must-have for any collection’
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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
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Ten Question Q&A with Mary Kisler
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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
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Read an interview with Little Doomsdays authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
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Newsroom runs an extract from ‘the superb new memoir Raiment by Jan Kemp’
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
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Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
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Read an extract from Sylvia and the Birds on Newsroom
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The Ones That Bit Me! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
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Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
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Ten Question Q&A with Martin Edmond
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
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10 Questions with Andrew Colarik
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
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10 questions with Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
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10 Questions with Steven Loveridge
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
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Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud
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10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
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10 Questions with Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
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Tessa Duder’s speech from The Writing Life launch
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
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10 Questions with Damian Skinner
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell
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Ten questions with Nic Low and Phil Dadson
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10 Questions with Danny Keenan
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Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
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Extraordinary tales of WWI flying live up to hyperbole in book’s subtitle
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Vaughan Rapatahana analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Read a Poem
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
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Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom
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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
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Paula Green reviews The RNZ Cookbook on NZ Poetry Shelf
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Geographic
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Eat Pacific reviewed in Viva
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The rich history of Aotearoa art, through one gallery in one city
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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...
10 Questions with Jack Ross
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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...
10 Questions with Bill Kaye-Blake, Margaret Brown and Penny Payne
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Jack Ross has passed on the torch and you are now the editor of the venerable Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Exciting? An exhilarating honour (an...
10 Questions with Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: After the success of A Walking Guide to Auckland Architecture and A Walking Guide to Christchurch Architecture, Wellington must have seemed ine...
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...
Telling the Home Front story
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Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense
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New Press, New Website
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
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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...
10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
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10 Questions with Sue Kedgley
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David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts
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Read an extract from Otherhood on the Spinoff
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10 Questions with Barbara Ewing
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10 Questions with Keith Ovenden
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Geographic
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10 Questions with Karen Denyer and Monica Peters
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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
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30 Queer Lives reviewed by David Hartnell
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Otago Daily Times talks to the authors of Bordering on Miraculous
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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
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The RNZ Cookbook reviewed on NZ Booklovers
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10 Questions with Jane Parker, Marian Baird, Noelle Donnelly, and Rae Cooper
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10 Questions with Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
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10 Questions with Barbara Sumner
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
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Dr Mark Stocker’s launch speech for Me, According to the History of Art
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Lama Tone reviews Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere for Kete
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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
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Downfall reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
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The Fate of the Land reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Shadow Worlds in the Waiheke Weekender
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Ziggle! reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
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Rewi reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
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Gretchen Albrecht reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
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The Unsettled: Book of the Week on Newsroom
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Grid reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Crackle! Cra...
Herbst reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
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