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Kate de Goldi reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
The Sarjeant Gallery, a beautiful century old heritage building and one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries, finally re-opened this Nove...
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Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for NZ Arts Review: ‘Whanganui’s Serjeant Galle...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Mark Southcombe reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for Architecture New Zealand: ‘Whanganui is close...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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Read an extract from Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
6. The professional era Gordon Harold Brown was born in Wellington in 1931 and trainedas an artist under Ted Lewis at Wellington Technical College....
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A brief history of Michael Laws’ war on the Sarjeant Gallery
‘Whanganui was in a mood for change in 2004. The incumbent mayor, Chas Poynter, a bookseller and the son of a bookseller, had been in office since...
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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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Martin Edmond talks to RNZ’s Mark Amery
Acclaimed writer Martin Edmond did his Christmas shopping in Whanganui as a child, travelling down the river from Ohakune where he was raised. They...
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Ten Question Q&A with Martin Edmond
Q1: You grew up in Ohakune and at the start of this book you write about coming to Whanganui when you were a child, in the early 1960s. Clearly the...
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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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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mō ngā taitamariki me te papa tākaro
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mā ngā taitamariki me ō rātau whānau
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: What is the motivation for you to create books for young readers? As a fluent Māori speaker, a mother and an educator, I understand the role qu...
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: Why did you choose the playground for your second book? It’s a place that parents and tamariki go to all the time, and I wanted to share new vo...
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Hauturu
A richly illustrated account of the island’s diverse plants and animals, and the people behind this globally significant conservation success story
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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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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? by Te Ataakura Pewhairangi on NZ Booklovers. ‘Ko wai kei te papa tāka...
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi, Ngāti Porou, is a Māori Student Recruitment Advisor at Massey University.
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Lyn Potter reviews Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
Lyn Potter Reviews Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? for NZ Booklovers. ‘The beautiful full-page photographs of the Glauser fam...
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi in conversation with Neil Waka on Te Ao Tapatahi
Watch Te Ataakura Pewhairangi discuss her new book Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?, te reo Māori revitalisation and the import...
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Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi interviewed on Nine to Noon
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi discusses te reo Māori revitalisation and her new pukapuka Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on Nine to...
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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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Read along to Kei Te Aha Ngā Kararehe
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Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga
Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga for Kete: ‘The Alexander Turnbull library is the oldest section of the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington....
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Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga
Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga for Kids Books NZ: ‘As a nonfiction writer, I've visited the Alexander Turnbull library a few times. I've locked away...
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi talks to Dale Husband about her latest children’s book
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi recently spoke with Dale Husband on Waatea about her most recent release, Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playgrou...
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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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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Lee Davidson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull ‘Once a year, I take my museum and heritage studies class to the A...
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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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Read an extract from Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘I was fascinated when, aged seven, I first saw my father weaving a kete. He would throw the kete behind him as soon as he saw me. As I was fair sk...
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The Spinoff reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘It is incredible to have this occasion rendered in this form, a beautiful book to hold and look at. Beautiful, and painful.’ — essa may ranapiri’s...
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Te Kupenga one of Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books
Eleanor Black has included Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull in Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books: ‘A handwritten account of Hēn...
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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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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on The Spinoff’s Christmas book-shopping list 2021
Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? were chosen by books editor Catherine Woulfe for The Spinoff’s 2021 Chris...
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Paul Diamond interviewed by the Whanganui Chronicle about Downfall's Ockham shortlisting
The Whanganui Chronicle recently interviewed author Paul Diamond about his book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, which is shortlisted i...
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Te Rā Moriarty
Te Rā Moriarty is a descendant of Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata, Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu. He is an assistant lecturer in Te Pūtahi a Toi, the School of Māori Knowledge, at Massey University.
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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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Te Manu Huna a Tāne wins the 2021 AAANZ Award for Best Writing by an Aotearoa Māori or Pasifika
Te Manu Huna a Tāne wins the 2021 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Award for Best Writing by an Aotearoa Māori or Pasifika. Our warm...
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Tūmahi Māori
Essential grammatical advice for users of te reo Māori
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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Leilani Tamu reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘It’s books like this that will help us to rethink how we as a society need to change.’ — Leilani Tamu reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne: The Hidden Bird...
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Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui during the 1990s.
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Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor works closely with the Edith Collier Trust Collection on a daily basis as Curator of Collections at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.
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10 Questions with Ella Kahu, Te Rā Moriarty, Helen Dollery and Richard Shaw
Q1: Tūrangawaewae was first published in 2017 and has reprinted a number of times. Why is it so successful? Part of that has to do with the fact t...
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Greg Donson
Greg Donson has been Curator and Programmes Manager at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui since 2007, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the exhibition programme, including publications.
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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Precarity included in the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Takarangi
Precarity: Uncertain, Insecure and Unequal Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Shiloh Groot (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Uenukukopako), Clifford van O...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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Gretchen Albrecht launch at Auckland Art Gallery
Join us at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki on Tuesday, 9 April to launch Gretchen Albrecht: between gesture and geometry. Gretchen Albrecht C...
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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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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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NZ Booklovers reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
This thorough and thought-provoking book will ignite interest in the life and works of New Zealand artist Edith Collier, who is now recognised as...
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Chris Szekely interviewed by Kelly Dennett
Chris Szekely, one of the editors of Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull, was interviewed by Kelly Dennett: ‘In the introduction...
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Edith Collier: New Zealand modernist reviewed in Kete
Linda Herrick reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for Kete Books: ‘This is...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri
Inside Aotearoa’s Māori art school powerhouse
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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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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Massey University Press
Massey University Press publishes award-winning books across a range of genres. Our list includes history, design, art, biography and memoir, agric...
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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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This Is New Zealand exhibition review
Fran Dibble reviews the recently opened exhibition This Is New Zealand at City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition features Bronwyn Holloway-Smith’s...
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri: ‘When the exhibiti...
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10 Questions with Michael Keith and Chris Szekely
Q1: This book is the closing act of a couple of years of celebration of Alexander Turnbull’s life and his great gift to the nation of. Since he gav...
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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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City at the Centre
A richly illustrated history of an ambitious city
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Publish with us
Massey University Press welcomes proposals from both Massey researchers and authors outside the university that fit our publishing programme, which...
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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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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Danny Keenan
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004.
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
David Eggleton reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Artists in Antarctica e...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong
Kiri Piahana-Wong (Ngāti Ranginui) is a poet and editor, and the publisher at Anahera Press.
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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Eugene Hansen
Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington.
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Sarah Farrar
Dr Sarah Farrar is head of curatorial and learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on contemporary art, curatorial activism and the complexities of cross-cultural exchange.
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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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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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David Herkt reviews Downfall for Kete
An excellent review of Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has appeared on Kete. David Herkt writes: ‘The death of a New Zea...
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Conversations About Indigenous Rights
A sharp assessment of how New Zealand is meeting its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, ten years on from its signing
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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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New Zealand National Security
New Zealand faces a range of serious security challenges in a globalised world — are we prepared for them?
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Massey University
For more than 80 years, Massey University has helped to shape lives and communities in New Zealand and around the world. Its forward-thinking spiri...
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Amber Clausner
Amber Clausner is a British arts producer based in Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington.
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Cassandra Barnett
Cassandra Barnett is an author and artist of Raukawa, Ngāti Huri and Pākehā descent who writes poetry, essays and short fiction about cultural and ecological futures.
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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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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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Jessica Hutchings
Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) is a senior kaupapa Māori research leader, author, activist and Hua Parakore grower.
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Downfall reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond has been reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Sergeant, I shot a young man through the...
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Peter Meihana
Dr Peter Meihana, Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō and Ngāi Tahu, is a lecturer in Māori History in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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Euan Macleod
Euan Macleod is an artist who has won a number of major prizes, including the Archibald Prize.
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Living Between Land and Sea
Rich and detailed stories of lives dominated by the sea
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For King and Other Countries
The untold story of the New Zealanders who fought the Great War under other flags
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Hazel and the Snails
A debut novel destined to become a classic
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Ioana Gordon-Smith
Ioana Gordon-Smith (New Zealand/Sāmoa) is an arts writer and curator.
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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.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti o Te Ātiawa) reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans: 'Jeff Evans’s Ngātokimatawhaorua is a...
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Mark Solomon
Tā Mark Wiremu Solomon KNZM, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī, served as kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of Ngāi Tahu, for 18 years.
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Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
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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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Mana Whakatipu
The compelling memoir of a Māori leader
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Shining Land reviewed by Sarah Shieff, ANZL
Sarah Shieff reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima on the Academy of New Zealand Literature Te Whare Mātā...
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Layne Waerea
Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and educator.
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Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
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10 Questions with Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
Q1: When the Sarjeant Gallery reopens later this year — the 1919 heritage building will be fully restored, earthquake strengthened and expanded wi...
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Johnson Witehira
Dr Johnson Witehira (Tamahaki, Ngāti Hinekura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tūteauru, Ngāti Hāmoa) is a leading Māori innovator working across art, design, technology and game development.
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Lyn Wade
Lyn Wade has been a member of the Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters’ Trust since its inception in 1997.
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Jade Kake
Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi — Ngāti Hau me Te Parawhau, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa) is an architectural designer, writer and housing advocate.
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Susette Goldsmith
Dr Susette Goldsmith is a writer and editor of non-fiction, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews High Wire
Ian Wedde has reviewed High Wire at the Academy of Zealand Literature Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa: ‘High Wire is the first picture book in the kōr...
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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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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in Heritage New Zealand
Anna Knox reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans for New Zealand Heritage magazine: ‘Ngātokimatawhaorua, the waka champi...
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Rawiri Taonui
Dr Rawiri Taonui (Te Hikutū and Ngāti Korokoro, Te Kapotai and Ngāti Paeahi, Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Whēru, Ngāti Te Taonui) is an independent writer, researcher and advisor.
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Ta Mark Solomon on Maori Television
Ta Mark Solomon’s memoir Mana Whakatipu was featured on Te Ao, Maori Television's news bulletin: ‘Everyone has an opinion about Covid-19 and Tā Mar...
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. Her fourth novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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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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Ken Downie
Ken Downie is freelance photographer and has worked as a photojournalist for Metro, North & South and the New Zealand Listener.
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Claire Massey
Professor Claire Massey is Massey University’s Director of Agrifood and heads Te Puna Whakatipu, which leads and supports university-level projects in agriculture and food.
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Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
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Jo Smith
Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Māori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira
The battle for Māori land and livelihoods
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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Shadow Worlds in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘A wond...
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Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
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Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia.
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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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Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
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Extract from Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
In Sally Gordon’s inner city villa in Auckland, the central hallway is lined with photographs of four generations of her family. Among them are two...
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Ten questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What drew you to write the story of this particular waka? Ngātokimatawhaorua is an iconic waka taua, and not just for its size. It is intrinsic...
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Bruce Foster
Bruce Foster’s current photographs consider the impacts on nature of political decisions and corporate actions.
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Michael Keith
Michael Keith is the principal of Shearwater Associates, a company engaged in numerous publishing, writing, editorial and educational projects in New Zealand and the Pacific.
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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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Massey News reviews Grid by Adam Claasen
Massey News reviews Adam Claasen’s new book Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell: ‘The highly-decorated Air Commo...
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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Creating New Synergies
An essential guide for teachers of Japanese in New Zealand
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Mark Adams
Mark Adams is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished photographers whose work is held in major institutions in New Zealand and abroad.
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Rebecca Fawkner
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery for twenty years.
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Rachel Haydon
Rachel Haydon is the general manager of the National Acquarium of New Zealand, in Napier, and a children’s author.
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Tooth and Veil
The story of the young women charged with waging war on our nation’s poor teeth
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Diseases of Cattle in Australasia
The definitive and authoritative text on cattle diseases in New Zealand and Australia
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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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10 Questions with Adam Claasen, author of Grid
Q1: Keith Caldwell was one of the stars of your last book, Fearless, about the New Zealand airmen who flew in the First World War. As you were fini...
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Nigel Robson
Nigel Robson is a senior historian at the Office of Māori Crown Relations — Te Arawhiti.
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Paul Spoonley
Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealand’s leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Simon Wilson
Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald.
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Margaret Tennant
Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant was formerly Professor of History at Massey University, and is now an Honorary Research Professor within the School of Humanities.
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Christopher Braddock
Christopher Braddock, artist and writer, is professor of visual arts in the School of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology.
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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service
A remarkable organisation and its pivotal role in this nation’s international relations
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Will to Win
Insights and revelations from some of the legends of New Zealand netball
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Moana Ellis reviews Downfall for Stuff
A review of Downfall: The history of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond has been published on Stuff. Moana Ellis writes: ‘Paul Diamond spent 18 years...
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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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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Encountering China
Inside our relationship with a superpower
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50 Years Young
The colourful history of New Zealand’s best-loved farming contest
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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The Citizen
From Ancient Rome to Brexit, how The Citizen finds his way, exercises his rights and fulfils his duties
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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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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John Walsh reveals Wellington’s rich architecture for Stuff
John Walsh, author of Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide with photographer Patrick Reynolds, has written about the city’ ‘treasure trove’ of...
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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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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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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In the Temple
A unique jewel of a poetry collection
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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New Zealand Between the Wars ebook
Examining New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years, when the foundation for a new nation was laid
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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State of Threat
Timely analysis of our most important security issues
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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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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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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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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Labour of Love
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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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 Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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The New New Zealand
A bold new book on population trends and the need to confront them
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Women and Work in Asia and the Pacific
Gender equity at work and beyond
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Vaughan Rapatahana
Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Te Whiti) is a poet, novelist, writer and anthologist.
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Masayoshi Ogino
Dr Masayoshi Ogino has extensive experience in language teaching in both New Zealand and overseas at secondary and tertiary levels. He has an M.Phil in Japanese Language Education and PhD in Applied Linguistics.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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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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Bridgette Masters-Awatere
Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Te Rarawa, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngai te Rangi) is a lecturer at the University of Waikato.
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for the Sunday Star-Tim...
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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
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EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon
Andrew Paul Wood at EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon: A Biography. ‘So many people, including myself, have wandered down the rabbit hole of trying to...
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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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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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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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Downfall reviewed on Landfall
Triumphantly juxtaposing Edwardian Whanganui and Weimar Berlin in granular detail by retailing the life experiences of an apparently minor historic...
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Andrew Colarik
Dr Andrew Colarik is a senior lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
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Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading writers on matters art-historical and aesthetic.
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Andy Martin
Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North.
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Anuradha Mathrani
Dr Anuradha Mathrani is a senior lecturer in Information Technology in the Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University.
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Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright.
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Bill Kaye-Blake
Dr William (Bill) Kaye-Blake is a chief economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand (PwC NZ), Wellington.
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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley is a lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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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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Cliff Simons
Cliff Simons is Director of the New Zealand Wars Study Centre at the New Zealand Defence College.
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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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Damien Wilkins
Damien Wilkins has published novels, collections of short stories and a book of poems.
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David Cohen
David Cohen is an author and journalist.
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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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Dick Veitch
Dick Veitch spent his working career with the New Zealand Wildlife Service, now part of the Department of Conservation.
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Giles Dodson
Giles Dodson is a senior lecturer and course co-ordinator for Tū Tira Mai: Practising Engagement at Massey University.
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Helen Schamroth
Helen Schamroth ONZM has been writing about craft, design and art for more than four decades
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Jan Kemp
Jan Kemp MNZM is a poet and short fiction writer.
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Jane Robertson
Jane Robertson is a local historian who has lived in Ōtoromiro Governors Bay, at the head of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, for 20 years.
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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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Julian Jang-Jaccard
Dr Julian Jang-Jaccard is an associate professor with the Information Technology cluster of the College of Science at Massey University.
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Karen Denyer
Karen Denyer, MSc, Dip Envt Mgt, is the Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust (NWT) and a freelance ecologist.
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Kathryn Hay
Dr Kathryn Hay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Massey University. She is a registered social worker and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
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Lana McCarthy
Dr Lana McCarthy is a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
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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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Lynley Edmeades
Lynley Edmeades is the author of two poetry collections and is the editor of Landfall.
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Margaret Brown
Dr Margaret Brown is a senior social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Palmerston North.
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Mark Henrickson
Mark Henrickson is Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University in Auckland, and for many years he worked in HIV-related health and mental healthcare.
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Matt McEvoy
Matt McEvoy spreads his time between teaching piano, accepting the occasional local technology contract and writing, with a particular interest in social history.
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Michelle Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and teacher of creative writing.
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Natalia Martín
Dr Natalia Martín is a lecturer in animal science at Massey University.
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Paul Moon
Dr Paul Moon ONZM is a professor of history at Auckland University of Technology, where he has taught since 1993.
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Penny Payne
Penny Payne is a social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Hamilton.
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Rachael Bell
Dr Rachael Bell is a lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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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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Sharon McLennan
Sharon McLennan is a senior lecturer in citizenship and development studies at Massey University.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Stephen Duffin
Stephen Duffin is a lecturer at Massey University, where he has taught critical thinking for the past 20 years.
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Thom Conroy
Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University.
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William Fish
William Fish is a professor of philosophy at Massey University.
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William Hoverd
Associate Professor William Hoverd is the director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University.
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Judith Williams
Judith Williams was a descendant of early Pūhoi settlers and helped establish the Puhoi Historical Society.
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Roger Buckton
Roger Buckton was an adjunct associate-professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He has lived in Pūhoi since 1990.
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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.
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He karanga tāpaetanga! Call for submissions!
He karanga tāpaetanga! Nau mai e te pukapuka hou e mau rā i ngā pakiwhāiti, i ngā kōrero pono auaha nei, i ngā toikupu kōrero, ka eke atu rā ki te...
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Hannah Mooney
Hannah Mooney is a lecturer at Massey University’s School of Social Work.
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Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua reviewed in NZ Listener
Linda Herrick reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Listener: '"Gaze upon these works spread ou...
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10 Questions with Danny Keenan
Q1: You have written books on armed conflict and passive resistance in the nineteenth century. The Fate of the Land feels like another layer of the...
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Hazel and the Snails launch details
Join Massey University Press and Annual Ink to celebrate the launch of Hazel and the Snails, by Nan Blanchard.Six-year-old Hazel tends her colony o...
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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
Historian Elizabeth Cox writes on the Spinoff about the surprises she uncovered during the process of writing Making Space: A history of New Zealan...
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Ans Westra reviewed in ArtBeat
Jenny Partington reviews Paul Moon’s book Ans Westra: A life in photography for ArtBeat: ‘In Ans Westra: A Life In Photography, author Paul Moon ta...
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Deidre Brown reviews Rewi for Architecture NZ
Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that...
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Downfall reviewed in DNA magazine Australia
Graeme Aitken has reviewed Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mckay in DNA magazine Australia: ‘This fascinating book explores a...
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Read an extract from Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell
24: AIN’T GONNA WORK ON MCINNES’S FARM NO MORE I know that the name Frizzell comes from the Fraser clan, so maybe that had some part in how Dad li...
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10 Questions with Damian Skinner
1. You wrote your MA thesis on Theo Schoon in the 1990s but clearly you weren’t quite done with him. What drew you back? It was actually meeting a...
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Chris Szekely
Chris Szekely has held the statutory position of Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2007.
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Landfall Review Online
Eric Trump reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Landfall Review Online: ‘‘It is well that war is...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on KidsBooksNZ
Maria Gill 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 on...
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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 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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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...
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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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Ten questions with Kennedy Warne
Q1: You are known for writing about a range of outdoors and environmental subjects. Why did you choose the sea for this book? In 2000, after writin...
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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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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
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Ans Westra reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for NZ Arts Review: ‘Ans Westra, who died in 2023 was probably the most...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
Q1: You would have come across Doug Jolly while working on your 2009 book Kiwi Campaneros, about the New Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil...
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Sylvia’s Birds are a Family Treat
In her review for Magpies, Crissi Blair recommends Sylvia and the Birds: How the Bird Lady Saved Thousands of Birds, and How You Can Too! as a book...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in Manawatū Standard
George Heagney reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Manawatū Standard: ‘The story of...
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Little Doomsdays
A unique collaboration in words and art
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Back on the Road with Robin Morrison
Connie Brown reviews The South Island of New Zealand: From the Road by Robin Morrison for Art News Aotearoa, delighting in the return of this class...
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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10 Questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What first drew you to the subject of traditional wayfinding and voyaging? I had met several of the Pwo navigators while writing the biography...
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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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Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher who has had a long career in journalism.
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Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
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Sarika Rona
Sarika Rona is of Taranaki Tūturu, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tainui descent and is an educational psychologist.
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Ziggle! reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviewed Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book for the 14 September Waiheke Weekender. ‘An art activity book with ideas inspired by...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on Kete
Bob Frame reviews Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson: ‘This sumptuous social and environmental...
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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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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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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Recorder
Sylvia Martin reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Recorder: ‘Mark Derby’s biography of Dr Doug J...
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Read an extract of Mana Whakatipu on E-Tangata
Big day out In the beginning, I was tongue-tied and terrified. I had been a member of the Ngāi Tahu council — what we call “the table” — for three...
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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
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Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
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Leonard Bell reviews Gretchen Albrecht for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Leonard Bell has reviewed the revised edition of Luke Smythe’s Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry for the Aotearoa New Zealand Review...
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10 Questions with Michael Belgrave
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University? I’ve always believ...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: What stands out most for you about this book? The range and quality of the photographs we were able to find: from a Nazi victory parade in Wars...
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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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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...
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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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The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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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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10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
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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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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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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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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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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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Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
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10 Questions with Paula Green
Q1: Now that Wild Honey is off to print, are you feeling proud of it? Yes, a thousand times yes. But also a tad anxious. Q2: It’s a huge book a...
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10 Questions with Graham Hassall and Negar Partow
Q1: What prompted you to put this book together? The book overlaps three areas of interests for both of us: the operation of the United Nations sys...
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10 Questions with Sue Kedgley
Q1: You’ve had books published before, of course, and so this one is not a new experience but is there something that sets it apart from the others...
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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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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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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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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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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: This is a revised edition of a book first published in 2020. Why another edition so soon, and what’s new about it? When the first edition of t...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Ziggle! The Len Lye activity book by Rebecca Fawkner has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers: ‘There are hours of creative fun to be had, for children...
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Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
The ‘Almost Legendary Wanganui Artist’. That description, by the then-director of the National Art Gallery Stewart MacLennan, was made in a 1956 re...
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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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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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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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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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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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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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Proof reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking on NZ Booklovers: ‘Proof, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PCANZ, the Print...
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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10 Questions with Mary Kisler
Q1: You’ve spent the last four years in the footsteps of Frances Hodgkins. In Europe you’ve eaten at some of the restaurants and cafes she ate at,...
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One Hundred Havens reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Meihana reviews One Hundred Havens: The Settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole: 'AS A CHILD, I often visited aunties and un...
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Vaughan Rapatahana reads two poems
Poet Vaughan Rapatahana reads two of his poems featured in this year's fabulous Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020.
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10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
Q1: You’ve got a really big day job at the Herald and so accepting the invitation to write this book must have given you pause. Why did you decide...
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Downfall jointly wins WH Oliver Prize in the NZHA Awards
Named after New Zealand historian and poet William (Bill) Oliver (1925-2015), the W. H. Oliver prize is awarded to the best book on any aspect of N...
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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The Sheep
A technical and specialist guide to diseases in sheep
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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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Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Newsroom: ‘Many of N...
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John Scott Works at Objectspace
Coinciding with the launch of our new book, John Scott Works, by David Straight, Objectspace is staging an exhibition of the same name. The exhibit...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
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A Moral Truth — Mediawatch interview
A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand opens with an extract from Te Hokioi, which the book's editor, James Hollings,...
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Mark Adams clocks up 50 years of undoing ‘othering’ in Aotearoa
Sapeer Mayron interviews Mark Adams about his work and new book Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for Sunday Star-Times: ‘The acclaimed p...
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Danny Keenan receives the 2023 Michael King Writer's Fellowship
It was announced on Friday that Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) is the 2023 recipient of Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Congratula...
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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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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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10 Questions with Jane Robertson
Q1: Why did you want to write this book?Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is my home, the place I love, my tūrangawaewae. I wanted to understand this pl...
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Adam Claasen
Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University’s Albany campus. He is a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship grantee, a Fulbright Scholarship (Georgetown University) awardee and a Massey University research team medallist.
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Bridget Hackshaw
Bridget Hackshaw researched and photographed the buildings and artworks in this book and is the daughter of architect James Hackshaw
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Clare Ladyman
Clare Ladyman completed her research studies at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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Dallas Nesbitt
Dallas Nesbitt is a senior lecturer in Japanese at AUT University. Her research focuses on Kanji teaching and learning Japanese katakana script.
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Deidre McDonald
Deidre Ann McDonald is a teaching fellow with Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University.
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Geoff Watson
Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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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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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Jane Sayle
Jane Sayle grew up on the south coast of Wellington. She has been a dealer in curios and ephemera, an art writer and reviewer, a lecturer in the history of New Zealand visual culture and a traveller.
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Johanna Emeney
Johanna Emeney works at Massey University as a teacher of creative writing.
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Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi works with children in schools throughout New Zealand, promoting reading and teaching creative writing.
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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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Natasha Tassell-Matamua
Natasha Tassell-Matamua is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University.
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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Nick Nelson
Nick Nelson is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Richard Laven
Richard Laven BVSc is Professor in Production Animal Health and Welfare and Group Leader of Farm Services, School of Veterinary Science, at Massey University.
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Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University whose research is published in leading international journals. He is a regular commentator on political issues.
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Tracey Slaughter
Tracey Slaughter teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato, where she edits the journals Mayhem and Poetry New Zealand Yearbook.
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Read an extract of Skinny Dip on The Spinoff
Term four kicks off today without the kids of Waikato and Te Tai Tokerau. For those in Tāmaki Makaurau it’s even harder: they just started their 10...
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The Fate of the Land reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Danny Keenan’s latest, The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era...
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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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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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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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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Waiheke Weekender: ‘As global supply chains becom...
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Making Space editor honoured
We were delighted to see Making Space editor Elizabeth Cox recently honoured by her own industry for the energy and commitment she has put in to do...
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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 Bridget Hackshaw
Q1: When did the idea that you should write this book first seed in your mind? I began reading, photographing and researching this subject at the...
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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Kathy Waghorn has revewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, for Architecture New Zealand: As...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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...
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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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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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NZ Listener reviews Dear Oliver
Linda Herrick at NZ Listener reviews Peter Wells’ memoir Dear Oliver: ‘Peter Wells’ haunting new book, Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History, wi...
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For King and Other Countries launch details
Join us to celebrate the launch of For King and Other Countries by Glyn Harper. New Zealand’s military contribution to the First World War was a ma...
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10 Questions with Noel O’Hare
Q1: What drew you to write about this subject? I was researching material for the Public Service Association’s centenary celebrations and I became...
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Barbara Ewing introduces One Minute Crying Time
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David Littlewood reviews Our First Foreign War
David Littlewood has reviewed Our First Foreign War by Nigel Robson for Kete: ‘For a people whose involvement in conflict is often said to have exe...
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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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One Hundred Havens reviewed on NZ Booklovers
One Hundred Havens: The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers by Anne Kerslake Hendricks: ...
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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 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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10 Questions with Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!
Q1: Being a vet — one of the best jobs in the world? Sorry to go all Charles Dickens on you: it’s the best and the worst. It depends entirely on th...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed on Kete
Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie is reviewed on Kete: ‘Don’t be put off by th...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in North & South
Solomon Lewis reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for North & South:...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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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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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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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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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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Annette O’Sullivan talks to RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan
Exquisitely photographed by Jane Ussher, Woolsheds takes readers to historic sheep stations in the North and South islands, and explores the rich h...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Public History
Emma Jean-Kelly reviews Old Black Cloud: A culture history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealand Journal of Public History:...
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Matariki Williams reviews Rewi on The Spinoff
Matariki Williams has given an excellent review of Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen on The Spinoff: ‘“Rewi” scrawled in dis...
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Ta Mark Solomon on Nine to Noon
Tā Mark Solomon spent 18-years at the helm of Ngāi Tahu. He was elected to the role in 1998 just as the iwi was about to sign its $170 million hist...
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts
Kaewa the Kororā has been reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts this month: ‘This is a gorgeous book with appealing and informative text alongside warm...
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Little Doomsdays is Volume’s book of the week
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived by Lloyd Jones is Volume’s book of the week: ‘Little Doomsdays, a collaboration between writer Nic Low and...
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Reawakened reviewed in Journal of Pacific History
Axel Defngin reviews Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans: Sirow. (A Yapese ceremonial apology given before spea...
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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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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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‘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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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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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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Making Space reviewed in HOME
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, which is edited by Elizabeth Cox, in HOME magazine thi...
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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
PREFACE This book aims to give an overview of how Japanese language education in the tertiary sector in New Zealand is reshaping its delivery and d...
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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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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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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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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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10 Questions with Helen Beaglehole
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? The credit really should go to Wellington historian Gavin McLean. I had finished my book on a history o...
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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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Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast
‘ Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Academy of New Zealand Literature: Family histories are having a moment in the sun. Charlot...
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed (and recommended!) in the Read NZ newsletter
Chris Reed has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too in the latest Read NZ Te Pou Muramura...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a major book exploring the work of the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) who was a groundbrea...
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Poetry Shelf review: Little Doomsdays by Nic Lowe and Phil Dadson
Paula Green has reviewed Nic Lowe and Phil Dadson's Little Doomsdays for Poetry Shelf: 'Little Doomsdays is a collaboration between Ngāi Tahu write...
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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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The Unsettled reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Paul Diamond reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Richard Shaw’s 2021 me...
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Little Doomsdays: 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Finlay Macdonald et al. for The Conversation: ‘Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappoi...
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Little Doomsdays reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Little Doomsdays, the fifth in the kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, has been reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review. John Daly-Peoples says of Nic...
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Katūīvei reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature
Erin Mercer reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito fo...