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An innovative new collection from an ward-winning NZ poet whose work has been described as `laconic and original

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A fifth volume of poetry from a beloved New Zealand troubadour that includes old favorites, such as "Sad Joke on a Marae" and "Cocoa Cola Jesus and Mitsubishi Mary." It explores topics such as nature and landscape, love and war, poverty and racism, and the poet's Maori ancestry.

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For many Kiwi baby boomers, growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s was a special time heaps of playmates, freedom to run wild, and opportunity to exercise imagination. Pete Majendies stories of his childhood in New Brighton capture those experiences.

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In 2013 the Hautapu family went through the extremely traumatic experience of their 7 year-old daughter Quinn being diagnosed with brain cancer. Quinns mother, Roanne Barnes Hautapu, has written a profoundly moving account of what the family went through, living at Ronald McDonald House whilst undergoing treatments at Starship Hospital.

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'A Feeling for Food' began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them the recipes of the food they'd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowey soon realised she was giving them another kind of nourishment that was all about who they were, where they'd come from and the adventures awaiting them.

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"Poems are born to blow a kiss at everlasting life as they rise to the rim of language then bubble and cascade over" says Kevin Ireland, one of New Zealands best-loved and richly lived poets in this, his 24th collection. Here are poems that make us laugh, reflect, question, celebrate "its poetry going about its stunning business once again."

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Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his work evokes.

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90-year-old Christchurch author lives through a pandemic and keeps writing about the joys of the life in front of her.

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Tony Hunter-Choat had a long and distinguished career in the British Army, including as CO of 23rd SAS Regiment. This book tells the story of his formative years as a paratrooper with the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1st REP) of the French Foreign Legion between 1957 and 1962 before he joined the British Army.

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In 2015 Natalie was diagnosed with breast cancer. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, she found new ways of coping as the illness progressed and became incurable. Hers is a story of diagnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies - but also of faith and community, hope and family.

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As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of 'sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia...'.

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A story describing the power of a single individual's passion for medical research achieving remarkable outcomes through collaboration with scientists and clinicians across disciplines.

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"As well as the poems from Lonie's published volumes, [this collection] includes over a hundred unpublished works, two essays and an extensive commentary"--Jacket.

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Poems about growing up in the 1950s and a love of the natural world. Author Jan FitzGerald was involved in the literary scene in NZ as Jan Coad in the 1960s and 1970s but didn't release her first collection until 2005.

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In Anatomy, Jamie Trowers unique voice took the reader into the world of a person living with physical disability. In his new work he delves into mental health and its many faces.

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A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital.