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The subtle and sophisticated poems in this collection artfully move across a spectrum of geographic and emotional landscapes. After shunning the physical reality of Antarcticas hazardous beauty in favour of exploring the inner world it inspires, the poet considers the urban nightmare of London after the 2005 bombings that killed her niece.

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Insightful and intelligent, this compelling collection of poems touches on themes of memory, travel, and the unconscious. With images and scenes carrying the burden of disclosure, these pieces create a thoughtful and provocative narrative along with a palpable and engaging outside world.

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In her first collection of stories, Gemma Bowker-Wright leads us into the phases of transition and transformation in people's lives: a dream job, a rare afternoon between son and father, a man losing his wife to Alzheimer's, a first snow.

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Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake.

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The 60th birthday of the Royal New Zealand Ballet is a triumph for the vision of Poul Gnatt who, in 1953, led a troupe of dancers travelling the length and breadth of the country. This book, with more than 50 contributors and more than 300 illustrations, is both a rich history and a vibrant celebration of that heroic story.

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Contending that James K. Baxters use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subjects entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxters mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the 'chaos' of his experiences.

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Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Weddes third collection of essays.

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The Stories of Eileen Duggan presents the two collections of short stories Eileen Duggan wrote but did not offer for publication, and includes a Preface by the editor, Helen J. ONeill, and a substantial introduction by John Weir.

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It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two.

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Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany.

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The Vulgar Wasp tells the story of the common wasp and its impact on us and our biodiversity.

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James Brown shakes out oblivions final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls.

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Uniquely combining conceptual academic theory with grounded and realistic suggestions for improving the ways the New Zealand government deals with the Maori, this comprehensive account outlines the significance behind an unresolved controversy that affects New Zealand's identity and culture, as well as their constitution, law, and economy.

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A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintners Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages.

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An Antarctic anthology like no other, this book is about the imaginative uses writers have made of Antarctica. It spans eight centuries of writing - from Dante's famous account of Ulysses' last southbound ocean journey, to Monty Python's Scott of the Sahara.

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Combining the urgency of the Canadian Bunchberry Dogwood with the suspended time of the lyric poem, this book introduces a courageous and innovative new voice in New Zealand poetry. Charlotte Simmonds is best known as a writer, director and actor in Wellington theatre.

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'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' - Damien Wilkins. Geoff Cochrane's new book is a bracing and invigorating distillation of his distinctive talent.