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This work presents 50 traditional Maori songs and includes musical transcriptions (by McLean), Maori texts, English translations (by Orbell) and extensive notes on each song. Most common song types are represented: laments, love songs, war chants, songs of welcome, face-saving songs and witty occasional songs.

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Since the mid-1800's Te Kingitanga has been a force in New Zealand society. The Maori King movement combines spiritual and political elements which conserve the "turangawaewae" (standpoints) of the past with practical leadership in the contemporary Maori world. This collection of 14 biographies of leaders has been put together to celebrate the settlement of the Tainui claim and the royal apology given by Queen Elizabeth to the Tainui people in...

An important collection by one of the leading contemporary New Zealand poets. The poems are kind of a diary, fragmentary and open, recording a mind thinking about language and the world.

Over the last three decades New Zealand literature has changed radically as New Zealand has become more diverse and more independent of its colonial origins. In place of a small literary culture--nationalist, realist, Pakeha and masculine in outlook--we now find a variety of styles, kinds, voices. In response to these changes, writing about New Zealand literature has also changed. Since the mid 1980s, criticism in New Zealand has sought to com...

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For much of their lives, the people of Taradale, New Zealand, did not live in the so-called separate spheres. They lived in a community which revolved around family life and family ties. Yet within their shared spaces they often had different experiences, be that at home, at school, at work or at leisure. This book is concerned with the interpretation of these various events and experiences, the interactions and interconnectedness of women's a...

This is Robin Hyde's previously unpublished epic poem, edited by a leading poet and scholar.

A collection of poems from Anne French, exploring subjects such as the ending of a relationship, the memories of past affairs and the dilemmas of friends. Some of them open out into the world, in comments on foreign places and famous people or satire on contemporary issues.

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The major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This first critical study of Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Ian Wedde, and C.K. Stead concentrates on their important works to explore how deeply-rooted anxieties about New Zealand's cultural situation and national identity are articulated in New Zealand fiction.

Language's classically menaced capacity to convey the realness of reality is the central anxiety of this inventive and sophisticated collection of poetry. As the poems ruminate on the humor and magic of everyday life and the severe melancholy of death, their expert handling of poetic diction, imagery, and rhythm leads to an intimate dialog with the time-honored themes of the European literary tradition.

This illustrated history details how the community education program developed by Arnold Wilson in the 1970s in Northland, New Zealand used arts as a catalyst for cultural exploration and involved schools and communities in their art projects.

Ngapuhi is the largest iwi in New Zealand and has occupied the northern North Island, from Tamaki in the south to Te Rerenga Wairua in the north, from the time of their arrival from Hawaiki. Ko Tautoro, Te pito o Toku Ao is Ngapuhi elder H?ne Sadler's powerful account of the origins, history and culture of the Ngapuhi people - a profound introduction to the Sacred House of Puhi.

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Covering the history of the Plunket Society from 1907 to the present day, this book is organized around three dominant themes that contribute both to international historiography and to the social history of New Zealand. These themes are the mixed economy of welfare, maternal and infant health, and motherhood and parenting. Discussed in detail is how together these three strands form an important contribution to New Zealand's social history. I...