This selection includes 'The Magpies' along with a wide variety of other poems.

First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduct...

Kate Camp's poetry has been described by readers as fearless, affable and 'containing a surprisin...

Giving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that seems simply too heavy to be...

It is November 18, 1982, and Neil Ian Roberts is 22 years old. He walks up to the Police Computer...

A very personal map of New Zealand--from Waiheke Island to Dunedin via the Waihi Beach Dump and W...

Nineteen Widows Under Ash

This book reveals a fascinating and little-known form of colonial still-life painting--trompe l'o...

The poems in this book record the experiences of the poet and her family through the Mediterranea...

Exploring New Zealand's history from 1990 to 2005, this authoritative collection of essays provid...

The experience of leaving one's regular life behind to explore a new culture is the focus of thes...

English translations of short stories from around the world.

This new collection contains poems that capture the eerie and exhilarating aspects of daily life....

Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. As they tell th...

This comprehensive history of trade unions in the New Zealand printing industry provides an absor...

Covering the remarkable life cycle of the largest spiny lobster in existence, this fascinating re...

With essays on such influential verse biographers as Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Porter, Michael Ond...

I uproot one of the ladies and use her to beat back a path through the others, until they look al...

James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds wit...

Features scholars and practitioners from China, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and oth...

Peter Singer says we are all equally valuable and I believe him. This means I should do more, tha...

China's new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the P...

This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, inc...

A powerful intellect is brought to bear on a world of continual change and curiosity in this lumi...

Taking a dark turn, this important New Zealand poet explores the legacy of a heretic who was burn...

Following the establishment of diplomatic relations on December 22, 1972, New Zealand and China h...

A wickedly entertaining collection of poems from one of the most distinctive new voices in New Ze...

With vivid and reflective poems, this collection takes readers on a journey of imagination and me...

The exhibition catalog for a retrospective that opened at the City Gallery Wellington in 2007, th...

Postured as a book of journeys, this collection's main feature is a nine-part poem in which a hou...

These brief, often biographical verses from one of New Zealand's foremost poets are peppered with...

Revisiting historical events and using them as a starting point for an exploration of love and hu...

Published in association with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's major 'Jeffrey Harris' retrospecti...

Little Frank, a 120-year-old gangster who traded his imagination for a secure and long life, is t...

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 382-394) and index.

In the late 1960s New Zealand's industrial relations entered the most turbulent era in its histor...

Brent Kininmont's first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and ...

The Stories of Eileen Duggan presents the two collections of short stories Eileen Duggan wrote bu...

'Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white' 'Savage is as savage does. And ...

Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norma...

'Beneath the wit, the no-nonsense honesty, the rigorous clarity of sense and the sinewy rhythmic ...

In Tributary, Rae Varcoe draws on her years of experience as a doctor, as well as on family histo...

This collection extends the themes of the poet's acclaimed debut. The poems represent acts of lov...

Maria McMillan's first full collection creates a new, invigorating space in New Zealand poetry. T...

Surveys the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first p...

This moving novel of love and betrayal follows Helena as she learns to cope with being abandoned ...

New Zealand Politics and Social Patterns

The conservation movement opposing the 19th-century torching of forests by British settlers is ap...