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Gardens, friends, paintings and music inhabit and bring to life this collection of poems.

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This is a biography of the New Zealand artist Len Lye, who became a leading modernist artist in London and New York, a major figure in experimental film, a kinetic sculptor and innovative theorist, painter and writer. The author was Lye's assistant in his later years.

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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war.

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After spending 25 years shepherding and managing sheep stations in the South Island, Robert Peden completed a PhD thesis, which was recorded as "Exceptional" at the University of Otago in 2007 and is the basis of Making Sheep Country. Dr Peden won a 2009 Claude McCarthy scholarship to complete this book.

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Focusing on Tai Tokerau, the northern region of New Zealand, as a case study but with conclusions applicable across the country, the leading Mori scholars and elders in Maranga Mai! call for their people to wake up to the challenges they face. Through stories and statistics, demography and policy, they identify the key issues and pose potential solutions.

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Studying the events following Newzealand sending its troops to assist the US, this work draws on government archives, newspapers, records of the protest and other sources to cover the story of New Zealand's relations with Vietnam. It explores the diplomatic history of the engagement, and shows that the politicians entered the war reluctantly.

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A second collection by one of New Zealands most powerful young voices, now out in the wide world.

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This title provides a collection of essays by leading Australian, New Zealand and Commonwealth historians on different aspects of the Commonwealth member countries, especially New Zealand's, involvement in the South African war.

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Peter Peryer is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary photographers. Peter Peryer: Photographer includes a section of eighty photographs, the largest body of Peryer's work yet assembled, personally selected by the photographer. A wide-ranging introduction by Peter Simpson, and an illustrated autobiographical essay by Peryer himself are also included.

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Historian and former journalist Ron Palenski tells the full story of rugby in New Zealand for the first time. It is a story of how the game travelled from England and settled in the colony, how Maori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, and how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it.

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From a childhood in Londons East End to half a century in New Zealand photographing wine-makers, artists, children and kuia, Marti Friedlander has lived a rich life one defined by the art of looking. In Self-Portrait, Marti tells her story for the first time.

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These 11 poems, written between 1997 and 2000 show Allen Curnow's ear for the vernacular and his sense of the absurdity of modish attitudes. Alongside a poem for poet Peter Porter's 70th birthday are poems of small dramas, some painful and ugly, observed unflinchingly.

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More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the RAF and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day landings, in June 1944. Until now, the role played by these men has been largely untold. The Big Show provides the first eye witness account of their experience at the heart of the European War.

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Consists of four essays about life and walking, bookended by a preamble and an afterword, and interrupted by 21 poems about the Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath. The poems jolt into the essays like aftershocks, like cracks in the text; they make you pause and reconsider.

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First published in 1938, this novel conveys the intense feelings of an adolescent in love, poetry and England. It pictures life in early 20th-century Wellington, its physical details, emotional tensions, muddle and variety.

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In this extraordinary full-length collection, Alice Miller explores history, myth, scene, place, music and relationship in poems that marry charmed, syncopated rhythmic language and intricate, urgent metaphor. Human limits are tested, depths plumbed and boundaries traced - but Millers aural swoops and metaphoric stretching are grounded always by charged, concrete details.

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In April 2011, Anthony Byrt was living in Berlin and building a career as a critic, writing about the world of contemporary art. Then one day his world turned upside down. A baby boy, two weeks in intensive care, and Byrt, his wife and new-born son suddenly found themselves booked on a one-way trip home to New Zealand. This Model World is a portrait of what Byrt found when he came back.

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Gives readers five poems that lope along in a rhythmic way exploring the concept of beauty and the nature of language. Here, the poet enables us to see our world freshly and alerts us to the wonders delivered to us by our senses. This book is an example of a mature and confident talent responding with imagination to the local and the familiar.

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Tigers at Awhitu is a first, compelling and rich, poetry collection by Sarah Broom. Many of Broom's poems emerge out of a profound connection with the New Zealand landscape.

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Bob Orr has published five solo collections of poems previously. His is a pure lyric impulse, somewhat like Sam Hunt's. The strength of the poems in this collection is their particularity, their feeling and their feel for form and the shape of a line.

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This collection will be published to coincide with Robert's visit to New Zealand in mid-2005. This new collection has great variety but also strong pervasive themes such as the rewriting of New Zealand myths from a Polynesian perspective; there are also a number of beautiful love poems.

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Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams.