Books
Ko Aotearoa Tātou • We Are New Zealand
An anthology
Editors: Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James NorcliffeArt editor: David Eggleton
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared “We are all New Zealanders”. These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness.
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors' questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich variety and contradiction, darkness and light? Who are New Zealanders?
The works flowed in from well-known names and new voices, from writers and artists, from Kerikeri to Bluff. Some are teenagers; some are in their eighties. Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika, Asian, new migrants, young voices, queer writers, social warriors…
Aotearoa's many faces are represented in this unique and important compendium. This anthology shows that creative work can explore, document, interrogate, re-imagine – and celebrate – who we are as citizens of this diverse country, in a diverse world.
Nouns, verbs, etc.
Selected poems
Fiona FarrellOne of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far “uncollected”.
The themes are wide ranging: political and personal, regional and global, including love and birth and death, war and emigration, history and landscape. The poems mix lyricism with the flat and plainspoken mode of Kiwi vernacular; they channel voices infrequently heard in poetry in traditional song and ballad forms. They are well crafted but unpretentious, jokey yet illuminating, self-deprecating but wise, sad and funny and deeply human.
For further information:
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Books by Otago alumni
Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji, by Jacqueline Leckie,
University of Hawai'i Press, November 2020.
Kalimpong Kids: The New Zealand Story, in Pictures, by Jane McCabe,
Otago University Press, June 2020.
Southern Spirit: The People and Places of Southland, by Ian Dougherty,
Saddle Hill Press, June 2020.
Merchant, Miner, Mandarin: The Life and Times of the Remarkable Choie Sew Hoy, by Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew and Trevor Agnew,
Canterbury University Press, June 2020.
A Partly Anglicised Kiwi: a Psychiatrist Remembers, by Brian Barraclough, edited by Jennifer Barraclough,
Overcliff Books, April 2020.
Camphor for the Collywobbles: Ship's Surgeon Dr Augustus Florance's Voyages 1857-1862, by Claire Le Couteur,
The Cotter Medical History Trust, 2019.
Vaccines & Vesicles: a History of Smallpox Vaccination in New Zealand, by Claire Le Couteur,
Cotter Medical History Trust, 2019.
The Colour of Stealth, by Mark Porath,
Paradox Books, 2019.
George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form, by Joseph Young,
Routledge, 2019.
Alcohol: a Dangerous Love Affair, by George A.F. Seber and D. Graeme Woodfield, foreword by Sir Geoffrey Palmer,
Wild Side Publishing, 2019.
The Holy Spirit as Person and Power: Charismatic Renewal and Its Implications for Theology, by Rob Yule,
Wipf and Stock, 2019.
The Treatment of Kidney Failure in New Zealand, by Kelvin L. Lynn, Adrian L. Buttimore, Peter J. Hatfield, Martin R. Wallace, 2018.
Alumni: if you have recently published a book please email mag.editor@otago.ac.nz