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These new and selected poems by critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Marilyn Duckworth meditate with wit and warmth on love, memory, the writing life, and disorder. This is Duckworth's first poetry collection since Other Lovers' Children, published in 1975.

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In late 2013, China's new leader President Xi Jinping asked a plenary meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee to agree on a lengthy new reform agenda. In July 2014, the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre held a conference to discuss the Third Plenum and China's current condition. This book is an account of the conference and its conclusions.

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China's new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the Pacific has attracted increasing attention, and some controversy, in recent years. Based on a conference held at the National University of Samoa in Apia in February 2015, this volume discusses this topic.

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China-US Relations in Global Perspective features world-class scholars and practitioners from China, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and other countries on issues related to the bilateral relationship.

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Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.

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Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today's person, the party he wants to be introduced to. Chosen is the nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane.

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At the heart of Claire Orchard's first poetry collection is Charles Darwin, during the intense period in which he was working on his controversial theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. His world as traced in his notebooks and letters is drawn out in full imaginative colour and echoed in unexpected ways in the poet's own world 200 years later.

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Fleur Adcocks Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealands most significant writers, combining Poems 19602000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume.

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The definitive edition of one of the most important bodies of work in New Zealand poetry. Based on a spiral-bound manuscript entitled Complete Poems 1947-2007 found among Campbell's papers after his death, this is his most substantial collection to date and the first to be published in hardback since 1981.

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Poet, wit and controversialist, A.R.D. Fairburn was one of the best-known New Zealanders of his time. The poet Allen Curnow said in 1947: More than any other New Zealand poet, Mr Fairburn has value for what he is, as much as for what he writes.

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Comprising stories from other volumes as well as never-before-published tales, this collection of short stories mixes wit with warmth. Anderson's rich characters are set against a range of locations and time periods, from New Zealand's country farms of the mid-20th century to contemporary hair salons and everything in between.

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Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (1943-2014) was a much loved and respected academic and curator of broad and varied interests, who made an immense contribution to New Zealand art history over almost half a century. Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance is a remarkable tribute to his memory from friends, colleagues and former students alike.

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Through a complementary combination of prose and poetry, Lynn Davidson has crafted an emotionally charged narrative with an awareness for language, rhythm, and form. The three interconnected personal essays and two poems comprising the book share themes of personhood and relationships.

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Terence OBrien was a born diplomat urbane, clever, adaptable and hardworking, with a talent for strategy and negotiation.

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Conventional Weapons is Tracey Slaughter's first full poetry collection. In these dark, lyrical poems, Slaughter closely observe the textures of the world and the beauty and depravity of human nature.

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raven is an exceptional debut: Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors.

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Surveys Yvonne Todd's work since the late 1990s, including her recent Gilbert Melrose project and her latest photographic series "Ethical Minorities (Vegans)". It contains new essays by Todd herself, Robert Leonard, Misha Kavka, Claire Regnault, Megan Dunn, and Anthony Byrt. It also contains an archival section with earlier essays.

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James Norcliffe is one of New Zealand's most widely published and anthologised poets. In Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe, he looks over the shoulders of many characters and creatures, both real and imagined, and takes us deep into uncanny valleys. Poems about Seneca and James Dean sit alongside poems about a Turken dictator and an owl man.