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Bill Manhire's first new book since Lifted shows him building on the themes and expanding the techniques of that prize-winning collection. Here are finely crafted lyrics, found poems, and even a bracket of songs. The Victims of Lightning is Bill Manhire at the height of his powers.

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Vivid Familiar is a book of journeys. At its centre is the astonishing 'Feathers and Wax', in which the housebound poet is taken away by an airship that pulls up at her kitchen window.

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One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. Wake is a novel about what it really means to try to do one's best, about the choices and sacrifices people face.

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Walking Home gathers together some of the last poems written by Michele Amas. These are poems of tenacity and courage, and of locating oneself in time and in love.

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James Brown's fifth book of poetry moves through personal lyrics, narrative desire, and short takes, before arriving at a climactic antipoetry. Warm Auditorium is Brown at his most formally diverse, with rhyme, tongue-twisters, lists, monologues, and prose poems.

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Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout.

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The analyses in this book focus on the participation of the people within New Zealands system of government. The chapters provide a thorough examination of the governments size, accessibility, structure, electoral system, and active committees in order to explain trends in the participation of sub-state actors, such as indigenous peoples and other minority groups.

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Featuring brilliant urban photography, this celebration of the dynamic presence of sculpture in Wellington vividly captures more than 40 sculptures throughout the citys streets and parks. An informative and provocative examination of the sculptures' origins, this collection shows how many of the gorgeous art works came into being.

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Since its first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1983, the Wellington Summer Shakespeare has become an unmissable annual event, staging some of the liveliest Shakespeare productions performed in New Zealand.

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The follow-up to Airini Beautrais's acclaimed debut collection Secret Heart demonstrates the growing reach and authority of her writing.

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A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been stood down for accessing porn on a school computer wants to re-establish contact with his teenage daughter.

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Whatever It Takes recounts the politics and process behind ground-breaking works in New Zealand film. This is a story of entrepreneurs and dreamers, a disparate bunch bound together in pursuit of films that would define New Zealand cinema.

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"Published with the assistance of the New Zealand Law Foundation."

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This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture.

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Elizabeth Nannestad's playful, close observations of wilderness and wild women of several generations are held together by the wind and time shifts. With broad, encompassing sweep of history, untamed places, and the people who inhabit them, Wild Like Me marks the return of one of the more vital voices of New Zealand poetry.

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The Wish Child is a profound meditation on the wreckage caused by a corrupt ideology, on the resilience of the human spirit, and on crimes that cannot be undone.

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Wonky Optics is Geoff Cochrane's fifteenth collection of poems. "The Cochrane tone is one of the great pleasures in our literature - and somehow sweeter for appearing not to be part of that literature." - Damien Wilkins

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