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Writers of all skill levels can give their minds a work-out with this extensive book of writing prompts and exercises. Brimming with stimulating trigger ideas, the exercises help readers explore the nuts and bolts of the craft, from poetry and short fiction to scriptwriting, while helping to find inspiration everywhere.

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This book of fiction and slant autobiography by Joan Fleming occupies the dizzying space between what can be told about love, and what cannot. Joan Flemings odd, singular vision is a a wonderfully new and valuable addition to contemporary New Zealand poetry. - Tim Upperton

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In Tusiata Avia's new collection Fale Aitu | Spirit House, the voices of the living and dead, the past and the present are woven together in poems that are both confessional and confrontational.

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Both a personal reminiscence and an addition to the historical record, this book offers new insights into the bitter debate over economic policy that swept New Zealand's Muldoon administration out of office in 1984 and ushered in the tumultuous reforms of the Lange government.

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John Newton's latest collection of poetry ponders the deep relationship between people and landscapes, and yet, in spite of such familiarity, there are questions yet to be answered, attachments and passions that don't let go. Romantic, hyperbolic, painterly, and plot-driven, Family Songbook is a New Zealand pastoral in a different key.

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Offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour, Rebecca Priestley reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about Earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place

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From 1995 to 2006, eight New Zealand composers were invited to give an annual public address at Massey University: John Ritchie, Edwin Carr, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, John Cousins, John Rimmer and Chris Cree Brown.

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Containing essays on eight of the country's best novels, this collection of critical essays examines how New Zealand fiction has redefined traditional means of storytelling, inviting readers into a new malleable world where identities are negotiable, liberated from time and place.

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With his sixth poetry collection, highly rated New Zealand poet James Brown is back to flood another chamber. `teeth and claws, poetic sensibility, and stimulating peculiarities Elizabeth Knox on James Brown

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Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais' family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow.

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Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Smoa tells the story of the development of Smoas unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Smoa.

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A compelling and rigorous exploration of the foundations of Aotearoa New Zealand's criminal justice system, examining English criminal law as it came to be applied in New Zealand, its impact on Indigenous laws and customs and the legacy of that clash.

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Analyses the challenges of developing regulation in New Zealand, including how to work with New Zealand's unique features; the role of experimentation, monitoring, and review; finding the balance between certainty and discretion in regulation; and the pros and cons of the analytical techniques (such as cost-benefit analysis) that are used for evaluating regulations once they are implemented.

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

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Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexuality, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shocking beauty.

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A queer / takatpui Mori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the global North.

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Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is renowned.

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Since its grand opening in 1961, Wellington's Futuna Chapel - devised by architect John Scott and artist Jim Allen - has held a singular place in New Zealand's cultural history. Futuna: Life of a Building tells the remarkable story of the chapel's inception and construction, and its status beyond as well as within the architectural world.

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