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By: Janet McAllister

ISBN: 9780994138392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations.


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By: Mandy Ross

ISBN: 9781907598364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2016
Publisher: Candlestick Press
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Ten poems by lesbian and gay poets over the centuries.


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By: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

ISBN: 9781988503479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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This is the story of Holmans search for his great-aunt Lily who married and moved to Germany at the turn of the 20th century, and was later caught up in the Nazi web spun by Adolf Hitler. Those who love Holmans poetic writing will enjoy accompanying him on his search as he learns German and travels to Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden.


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By: Lynley Edmeades

ISBN: 9781988531786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Otago University Press
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In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories.


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By: Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod

ISBN: 9781990035067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: OneTree House Ltd
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Short story anthology featuring exclusively kiwi authors


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By: Julie Leibrich

ISBN: 9781927242292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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By: Sudesh Mishra

ISBN: 9781927322376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Otago University Press
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By: Peter Tremewan

ISBN: 9781988503028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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This is the first full English translation of the surviving Mangakhia journals and letters of French Marist priest Father Antoine Garin. Frank, open-minded and often humorous, Garins diary is a major contribution to the early history of European settlement in Aotearoa and a compelling insight into Mori customs, values and beliefs of the time.


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By: Rosie Belton

ISBN: 9780994133427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Renaissance Publishing
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The stories, observations and memories captured within these pages reflect the events in Canterbury New Zealand, and in particular the city of Christchurch, and the journey its inhabitants have been on over the past eight years since the earthquake sequence began in September 2010.


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By: John Newton

ISBN: 9781988503141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including newly commissioned images of Summers works, Llew Summers: Body and Soul is a joyful record of a life in sculpture and a testimony to the value of public art.


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By: Maureen Birchfield

ISBN: 9781877257803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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In this insightful and compelling biography, Maureen Birchfield peels back the layers of the public firebrand to find an ordinary woman who negotiated enormous personal obstacles to raise four children while striving tirelessly to improve the world around her.


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By: Peter Bland

ISBN: 9781877448973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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Peter Bland has been published widely as a poet and is well known as a broadcaster, actor and co-founder of Wellington's Downstage Theatre. This moving sequence of poems, written in the year following his wife Beryl's death, is poetry of memorable intimacy.


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By: Siobhan Harvey

ISBN: 9781877577116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand.


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By: Caroline Bongrand

ISBN: 9782072960376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Gallimard
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A lively biography of the founder of the world famous luxury fashion and leather goods company Louis Vuitton, with previously unpublished details that shed light on the story behind the man and the legend.


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By: Jenny Robin Jones

ISBN: 9781877429354
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Calico Publishing
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Author Jenny Robin Jones journey takes her to the spectacular desert lands of Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, where she encounters not only the Pueblo people and their rich culture but also the memory of writers and artists who have made the same journey in the past.


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By: Gordon Challis

ISBN: 9781877448454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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The third collection of poems from Gordon Challis.


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By: Erich Sommer

ISBN: 9781911667308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2022
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.


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By: Wolfgang Fischer

ISBN: 9781911667292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2022
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform.


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By: Philip Temple Philip Temple

ISBN: 9780947522469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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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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By: Rex Letoa Paget

ISBN: 9780473709891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Saufo'i Press
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By: Jillian Sullivan

ISBN: 9781988592565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
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By: Cilla McQueen

ISBN: 9781877133923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Otago University Press
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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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By: Helen Thomas

ISBN: 9780992247683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Fraser Books
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By: Majella Cullinane

ISBN: 9781990048807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Otago University Press
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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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