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Otago University Press publishes books of scholarly and cultural significance that enrich our society. We produce a range of quality non-fiction books on New Zealand and the Pacific, focusing on history, Māori/Pacific, natural history, contemporary issues, biography/memoir, essays and creative non-fiction, literature and the arts.

Otago University Press also publishes a small amount of poetry as well as Landfall, New Zealand's longest-running and leading journal of new writing and art.

Latest books

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Pretty Ugly


Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story...

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Remembering and Becoming


Remembering and Becoming: Oral history in Aotearoa New Zealand investigates how...

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Blue Hour


Set in the green spaces and urban grit of contemporary Te Whanganui-a-Tara, this...

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The Twisted Chain


The Twisted Chain combines a personal story about the impacts of rheumatic fever...

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Forms of Freedom


In Forms of Freedom Dougal McNeill explores how the creative literary imaginatio...

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Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology


With more than 100 poems of celebration, elegy, fear, hope and activism, Koe An...

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Power to Win


Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand...

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Echoes from Hawaiki


Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical...

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Landfall 247: Autumn 2024


Landfall is Aotearoa’s longest-running arts and literary journal. Each volume br...

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Meantime


During the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand uncrossable kilometres lay betwe...

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Heart Stood Still


Heart Stood Still is an eco-memoir and a lyrical portrait of Manawatū, Aotearoa....

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Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer


Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer tells the story of Bob Crowder, a le...

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Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Māori


Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Māori was the major field project undertake...

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Landfall 246


Edited by Lynley Edmeades Announces the winner of the 2023 Landfall Essay Compe...

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History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants


Dom Felice Vaggioli Translated by John Crockett

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