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A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets rally for justice in 101 explosive new poems for election year.

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Presents a collection of poems and drawings by award winning poet, tracing the lives and voyages of her ancestors, and the living history of her husband's people. This work features themes that include: memory, loss, displacement and dispossession, history, home and family.

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand kilometres lay between poet Majella Cullinane in Aotearoa New Zealand and her mother in Ireland, a distance unbridgeable even by phone as Cullinanes mothers language was lost to dementia. Meantime calls across this terrible distance with attentiveness, tenderness and extraordinary vulnerability.

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In My Body, My Business, 11 former and current New Zealand sex workers speak frankly, in their own voices, about their lives in and out of the sex industry. Their stories are by turns eye-opening, poignant, heartening, disturbing and compelling.

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Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Mortons poems take a bite out of the world around us, as they explore reality through the vitality and immersiveness of their imaginative powers.

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Pamela Woods New Zealand Nurses draws on a wealth of stories to identify the values and traditions of the nursing culture from 1880 when modern nursing started to emerge to 1950, after NZ had severed its final tie as part of the British Empire.

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Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick's third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future.

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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Stevens Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.

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The story of tiny Niue's involvement in the Great War has captivated people since an account was first published by Margaret Pointer in 2000. In 1915, 160 Niuean men joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as part of the Maori Reinforcements and set sail to Auckland and then Egypt and France.

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After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldnt be less of a woman prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result.

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The Burns Fellowship is New Zealand's oldest and most prestigious literary residency. Iconic writers like Janet Frame, James K Baxter and Owen Marshall, and effervescent newcomers such as Jo Randerson, Alison Wong and Sue Wootton have each spent a year at its host, the University of Otago. This book provides a history of this cultural institution.

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In O me voy o te vas / One of us must go, love is a powerful magnet that attracts and repels in equal measure. In this lyrical collection, Rogelio Guedea (with English translations by Roger Hickin) examines what it means to share ones life with another person and questions whether and how love can survive realitys steady tap-drip repetitions.

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A comprehensive history of the University of Otago with an inclusive focus.

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Outspoken presents the narratives of eleven people who have come out in the Anglican Church in New Zealand, including two ordained church members. The author has written a general introduction, plus an introduction to each individual story and reflections on it.

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