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The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is appraised in this collection of essays from a leading New Zealand environmentalist. The book delves into subjects as diverse as William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, the rise of nature tourism, and the ecology of the inhabited landscape.

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Drawing its title from one of the last pages of Scott's journal, the book captures the harsh reality of an unforgiving environment as experienced firsthand by Bill Manhire and Anne Noble and dwells on the human spirit and its will to explore, to endure, and ultimately to accept.

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Things OK with you is Vincent OSullivans first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems (2016). His Selected Stories was published in 2019 and The Dark Is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere in 2020.

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In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood.

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Tara Black's comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn't find another book remotely like it, you would win. It's a little bit about being married to Kenneth. It's a little bit about losing your cat. It's definitely not about the pole.

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Rachel Bush's distinctive, haunting poems acknowledge the consolations and undoings of thought. In Thought Horses we encounter a speaker who as she is stepping outside, or googling an old friend, or lying awake too early is sometimes lifted up, and sometimes overtaken by thought. A beautifully wrought new collection by the author of The Hungry Woman.

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The debut collection from Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe is an extended imaginative exercise, where she invites the reader to experience life in the well containing dreams and desires, peering up as wishes are dropped into it.

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Brent Kininmonts first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and a preoccupation with flight in its varied forms. Islands are stepping stones far below; plains are bused, hiked, cycled across. At any moment a colossus might appear. Throughout these beautifully voiced and distilled pages, loud and faint thuds can be detected.

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The letters in this book, drawn from the Alexander Turnbull Library's large Thomas King collection, provide an intriguing look at the pleasure and pressures of colonial life and an insightful journey into a Victorian marriage.

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Towards Democratic Renewal reinforces Palmer and Butler's argument for a robust and democratic framework that will safeguard our political system against future challenges, from climate change to earthquakes, `post-truth' politics and surveillance.

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Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn't really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier - or at least, less trapped, medicated and depressed.

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Transforming Workplace Relations reflects on this revolution and speculates on the future of work relationships in a world challenged by newly evolving forms of work and employment.

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Passionately written and vividly illustrated, this book celebrates that extraordinary transition and is a tribute to the achievements of all who have contributed to what is now is now truly of its place: Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Maria McMillan's first full collection creates a new, invigorating space in New Zealand poetry. These are poems that refuse to settle, that grow and climb fearlessly into unknowable places within science, personal history, politics, and ethics. Language breaks apart and fuses back together. Our edges blur with those of other species, creating a brilliant, shimmering cacophony.

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Drawing upon the author's experiences as a doctor, this thoughtful collection of poems inspires calmness and personal reflection.

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Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and real coffee to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka's children are struggling in their different ways with the difficult legacy of their charismatic, overbearing father.

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This book brings together ten essays about the poets and works that have been formative in the emerging canon of verse biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Truth and Beauty turns critical attention to an exciting genre that lies at the intersection of biography and poetry, narrative and lyric, history and the confessional.

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A joint publication with the leading British poetry publisher Carcanet, this anthology forms an indispensable map of New Zealand poetry for readers at home and abroad.

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A woman hacks at a tree while her daughter chases her targets deep into the bush. A visitor walks up the path towards razor-topped gates. A man drives his nameless passenger towards a fractured city. At the reservoir, dark shapes move in the depths of the water. Traversing England, the Balkans, and New Zealand past and present, these stories trace the unexpected paths of peoples lives.

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A sleepy bohemian neighbourhood becomes the unexpected setting for an adventure story as a lively cast of characters that include a brilliant but troubled young writer, a voluptuous healer, and a shadowy cult and its sinister leader take on an ancient legend of the occultUnspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley is a dark and hilarious odyssey through Wellingtons underbelly.

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First published by Oxford University Press in 1985 and reissued with corrections and a new introduction by VUP in 1997, this is the definitive collection of the poems of Ursula Bethell.

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With a characteristic use of vernacular and an active application of his senses as he encounters the world around him, New Zealand Poet Laureate Vincent OSullivan produces intensely personal poems in this collection. For all that they brim with insight, however, the poems also concern themselves with larger themes of philosophical curiosity, religion, and mortality.

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Ursula Bethell was a modernist poet who helped shape New Zealand's literary scene between the two world wars. This collection of letters tells the story of her early life of travel and social work in Europe and opens a window on her subsequent writerly life as she describes the origins of many of her poems.