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Explores "the mind of a sailor, from the first scary moment of handling a boat solo to the exhilaration of sailing across oceans and discovering new worlds"--Page 4 of cover.

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Whether he's speculating about Bogart and Bergman, redefining the days of the week, celebrating days of nothing done, remembering the joys of being 83, or just laying down the law on dogs, Kevin Ireland, here in his twenty-third collection of poems, is as irreverent, incisive and enjoyable as ever.

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Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past.

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The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.

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Part of theCrane Classicsseries, featuring the poetry of John Keats.

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We have no poet quite like Jan Hutchison - a nature poet of course, but so much more than this: her imaginative leaps are startling; her mind ever quizzical, puzzling at what is just beyond perception. - James Norcliffe

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Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand. The Land of Doing Without brings to life the memories of many of Davey's contemporaries, and explores the man behind the legend: his quir

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An earlier draft of this book won the 2014 International Writers Workshop Kathleen Grattan prize for a sequence of poems. Award judge Janet Charman said that the poems jumped out at her as intellectually chewy; fascinating; astutely and provocatively nutty; overall an entirely rewarding read.

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Richly illustrated with his own drawings, Douglas's poems contain a raw truthfulness that will be a revelation for those unfamiliar with his earlier works and a must for those rediscovering his wide-ranging talent.

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This thoughtful, insightful book is the remarkable story of how with a wonderful woman at his side and the right support a Kiwi bloke fought back. This ten-week diary will make you laugh and cry, but above all it will provide rare insight to those struggling with depression.

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Short story anthology featuring exclusively kiwi authors

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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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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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The third collection of poems from Gordon Challis.

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Memory Stick is the story of a passionate woman living in the thick of things over seventy years of societal and cultural change, and weathering her share of loss, heartbreak and mistakes with courage and chutzpah. Written with a journalists flair, its a lively and entertaining read.

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Fourteen migrant taxi drivers talk about their lives - where they came from and why they came here, what it was like to settle in New Zealand, how they got into the taxi business, and how they see this country and its people.

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A second collection of poetry by Nicholas Reid