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This memoir of the Lowry family concentrates on Vanya's father Bob, talented printer and famed partygiver, and her mother Irene. It offers glimpses into Auckland's literary life of the 50s and 60s, and is illustrated with drawings and examples of Lowry's typography.

This prose memoir explores the death of a Lower Hutt school friend in the 1953 Tangiwai railway bridge disaster and, at the same time, the author's own life and mortality.

This collection presents a new generation of historians and covers a wide range of historical subjects, from Maori social history in Taranaki to post-World War II fashion. Looking at fragments of the past in unconventional ways, the emphasis is on questions, suggestions and possibilities.

Every morning for the last thirty years, C.K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, letters and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. This latest collection includes every kind of literary journalism, including politics, education, and reflections on language and some of Stead's laureate blogs.

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Offering poems that draw vividly on the landscape, history, and mythology of Ireland-while making connections with her home and childhood-this collection of poems reflects the author's personal journey and the many "invasions" of past and present. She adapts and transforms several ancient Irish texts, rewriting their stories for a contemporary world.

Features well-known New Zealand writers, poets, novelists, and even an economist, who write about their favourite local artist. This work includes a graphic essay (Dylan Horrocks on Barry Linton) and two poems (Jenny Bornholdt on Mary Macfarlane and Anne Kennedy on John Reynolds), and other essays such as Fiona Farrell on Gavin Bishop.

Formally opened in May 1883 as Auckland University College, it then comprised a disused courthouse and jail, 95 students and just 4 teaching staff. Today it is New Zealand's largest university, hosting more than 40, 000 students on its 5 Auckland campuses, . A remarkable history written to celebrate its 125th anniversary.

One of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, William Harrison (Bill) Pearson's life was also fraught with contradiction and secrecy, largely because of his homosexuality. This title presents a biography of a man sentenced by his times to a life of unwilling concealment.

Evidence from several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, demography, history, and the Maori oral tradition, are combined in this analysis of the many volcanic periods that shaped New Zealand. This authoritative, groundbreaking study examines the consequences on the coastal landscape and its people, from the first Polynesian settlers until European colonization in the 18th century. A study of the wave of tsunamis that struck New ...

A wonderful new collection - easy to read and intellectually stimulating - by Michael Jackson, a New Zealander who has lived and worked overseas most of his adult life, "far too long / in another hemisphere”, while continuing to publish in New Zealand. This distance and global reach inform the poems in Dead Reckoning, which sprawl from Beirut to Africa, Cape Reinga to Finisterre.

Recovers an almost forgotten chapter in New Zealand's ongoing conversation about itself. Chris Hilliard examines the ways changes in ideas and tastes were related to changes in the New Zealand's cultural power bases. In the process, he reconstructs the world of Pakeha cultural discussion between the world wars.

A study of the way in which New Zealand television presents local news. It takes the Waitangi Day commemorations, and explores how this has been handled from 1990 to 1995. As well as giving a picture of how television is produced, it offers insights into the way in which Maori issues are treated.

Including new photographs by Marti Friedlander, Her Life's Work is a revealing portrait of women's lives - showing how is possible to lead a life rich in family experience while maintaining work as a central passion.

Arranged in four acts, this collection of poems merrily experiments with voice, performance, and medium, exploring the craft through monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets, and storyboards. Filled with experimental and stirring language, this anthology includes a piece confronting global warming as well as dramatic and satiric verse arranged with swagger and aplomb, citing surprising and surreal moments such as a seal reciting the ...

n Blue Smoke, Chris Bourke recovers the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music in the 20th Century. Bourke brings to life the musical worlds of New Zealanders at home (buying sheet music from Beggs, listening to the radio, learning 'the twist') and out on the town (singing in community choirs, seeing Dave Brubeck on tour, jiving to Johnny Devlin).