Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand's major poets. This work is a collection of her poems, drawn from five volumes of her published work. It also includes a selection of her drawings and musical scores - of 'singing landscapes' and 'conversations in crowded rooms'.

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"Published in association with the Hocken Collections"--T.p. verso.

In the past two decades, cuisine and culinary history have attracted increasing attention, with both popular and academic books reflecting the growth of interest. Recipes are both sensitive markers of the socioeconomic conditions of their times and written representations of a culture's culinary repertoire.This book is a first in its field.

Provides an account of the seige of Kaiapoi Paa by Ngaati Toa, under the leadership of Te Rauparaha.

Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary.

Well-known as a printmaker, Webb also creates pastels that evoke wilderness areas in her home of southern New Zealand. Providing a biography of the artist and her development, this book is illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, that is followed by 62 of Webb's environmental-and conservation-inspired images, spanning 1963 to 2003.

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Strong Words is a striking collection of essays that show what Virginia Woolf once described as the art that can at once `sting us wide awake and yet also `fix us in a trance which is not sleep but rather an intensification of life. It celebrates an extraordinary year in New Zealand writing.

From Sean Macgregors lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Stevens second collection presents his clear, clean vision of the lifers who inhabit these islands and beyond.

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The Yield is the lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. Wootton addresses subjects as various as the relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energising power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love.

Written by medical students at the University of Otago, this title examines aspects of the early and modern history of mental health institutions in New Zealand and attitudes toward patients as unfortunate aliens to the world of reason. It also looks at that country's professionalisation of psychiatry, women psychiatrists, and more.

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Hiding Places is a powerful, fragmentary meditation on early motherhood and creativity. Blending memoir, family history, literary analysis, and social critique, Lynley Edmeades responds to the dangerous yet fruitful zones where life and art overlap.

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Aotearoa New Zealands iconic and longest-running arts and literary journal honours its milestone 250th issue with a new name, a stunning new design and gorgeous cover art by Fiona Pardington, and an exciting bumper issue.Landfall Tauraka 250is filled to the brim with contributions from emerging and established writers and artists.

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This new edition of Nor the Years Condemn revives Robin Hydes powerful 1938 novel about WWI veterans facing disillusionment in postwar New Zealand. Featuring cover art by Gretchen Albrecht and a preface by Genevieve Scanlan, it reintroduces a classic voice in Aotearoas literary history.

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Overland to the Island is the remarkable story of a bold, eccentric and somewhat ramshackle family pilgrimage, recounting the tale of Alan and Joan MacLeods 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland with their six children in a homemade house-truck. Written by their granddaughter Hannah Bulloch.

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Ruth Dallas (1919-2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinctive and influential literary voices. In this beautifully written biography, Diana Morrow captures the Ruth Dallas that her family and friends knew and loved: a private person with a lively outlook on life and a writer of rare clarity and insight.

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Strong Words 4 showcases Aotearoa New Zealand's best contemporary essays, including winners from the 2023 and 2024 Landfall Essay Competitions. Topics range from queer rights to capitalism, colonisation, and environmental destruction, blending personal reflections with critiques of society.

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This Moment, Every Moment is a new and updated edition of the collected poems of renowned Aotearoa New Zealand poet Ruth Dallas. Edited and introduced by Nicola Cummins and featuring cover art by Kushana Bush, this volume gathers previously uncollected poems from Dallas's youth and all her published collections together into one volume.

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This beautiful new edition brings Robin Hyde's striking novel, Wednesday's Children, back into print. Set in 1930s New Zealand, it follows Wednesday Gilfillan, a woman who defies convention to live freely as an artist and mother. With striking cover art by Star Gossage and a new preface and afterword by Genevieve Scanlan.

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New Zealanders today hold firm provincial identities, dating from the time when the young colony was divided into provinces: 1853 to 1876. Why were the provinces created How did settlers shape and change their institutions And why, just over 20 years later, did New Zealand abolish its provincial governments

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Across the Pass includes writing from New Zealanders such as writer John Mulgan, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and adventurer Graeme Dingle. The pieces range from epic tales to stories of strolls, writing that pokes fun at companions or instead celebrates that strong bond often forged when facing challenges together.

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Identifying and describing both native and exotic species, this book is illustrated with diagrams and photographs, in colour and black and white. It reveals that there are 37 established species of ants in New Zealand, 11 of which are considered to be endemic. It also includes a chapter on collecting and studying the fauna.