The Wilder Years
Selected Poems
David Eggleton
David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019–21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a ‘Best Of ’. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet’s own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems.
Kate Edger
The life of a pioneering feminist
Diana Morrow
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. She went on to become a pioneer of women’s education in New Zealand and worked tirelessly to mitigate violence against women and children.
Ngā Kete Mātauranga
Māori scholars at the research interface
Jacinta Ruru & Linda Waimarie Nikora (eds)
In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how mātauranga is positively influencing the Western-dominated disciplines of knowledge in the research sector.
The Sets
Victor Billot
The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea – as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories.
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals
Carolyn M. King & David M. Forsyth (eds)
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica). For this third edition, the text and references have been completely updated and reorganised.
Letters of Denis Glover
Selected and edited by Sarah Shieff
In this magnificent volume Sarah Shieff presents around 500 of Denis Glover’s letters to around 110 people, drawn from an archive of nearly 3000 letters to over 430 recipients. Many now recall Glover as little more than a misogynistic old fart, a court jester. These letters should give readers the opportunity to revise – or at least complicate – those dismissive categorisations.
Landfall 240
Editor Emma Neale
Reviews Editor Michelle Elvy
Featuring the winners of the Landfall Essay Competition 2020, the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2020 and the Frank Sargeson Prize 2020.
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Common Ground
Garden histories of Aotearoa
Matt Morris
Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time. From the arrival of the earliest Polynesian settlers carrying precious seeds and cuttings, through early settler gardens to ‘Dig for Victory’ efforts, Matt Morris traces the collapse and renewal of home gardening culture, through the emergence of community initiatives to the recent concept of food sovereignty.
Nouns, verbs, etc.
(selected poems)
Fiona Farrell
One 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’.
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand
An anthology
Edited by Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe
Art editor: David Eggleton
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?
