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Frank, funny, generous, sometimes filthy, packed with poems and musings on love, the Catholic faith, and how to live well and write well, they provide remarkable new insights into his life and work.

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James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions. Its contents are remarkable for their range, coherence and passionate integrity.

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James K. Baxter (192672) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, the most human of poets: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a lively sinner who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems.

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Jenny McLeod was the sensation of New Zealand music.

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In this previously unpublished work that is part memoir and part personal essay, critically-acclaimed novelist John Mulgan reflects on his departure from New Zealand. A powerful piece of writing and nostalgia, this account charts Mulgans efforts to discover who he is as a New Zealander and his new life in Oxford.

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In this collection, renowned writer and poet Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975 and a 1979 poem about a war poet. Other poems remember departed friends and early experiences and celebrate the abiding pleasures of reading, writing, and cricket.

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Featuring a series of insiders' views on New Zealand's general election, this record shows how John Key became the country's 38th Prime Minister. It includes accounts from politicians and media personalities that describe the details of the successful campaign and the oddity of covering a campaign where the likely winner seemed to be preordained.

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A compelling second collection from one of New Zealands most exciting rising poets, this work touches upon the authors bicultural background and depths of shared feelings.

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The Labour Party is New Zealand's oldest political party. On 7 July 2016 it celebrates a hundred years of commitment to democracy, social justice and economic development-a commitment that has often made for precarious balancing acts.

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A collection of essays by noted linguistic specialists that is an invaluable addition to the scholarship and study of New Zealand language and linguistics.

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In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage.

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Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time.

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A collection of poems asking what the word 'spirit' means for those who do not believe in an afterlife. The central poem, 'Kevin', suggests that in the absence of God, artists must be the ones to elevate the soul and provide hope and wonder through their work.

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Amy is a store detective at Cutty's, the oldest and grandest department store in the country. She's good at her job. She can read people and catch them. But Cutty's is closing down. Amy has a young baby, an ailing mother, and a large mortgage. She also has a past as an activist.

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Reporting the findings of a series of in-depth studies based on diverse groups of students, including early school-leavers, men, Maori, teachers, nurses, midcareer students, and retirees, this book examines these students' patterns of study, their employment status, their motivations, and the decisions they make.

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The experience of leaving ones regular life behind to explore a new culture is the focus of these profound poems. Drawing from three years spent living in a remote fishing village in Hokkaido, Japan, the poet recounts her experience teaching English in Japanese schools and partaking in such new hobbies as karaoke and snowboarding.