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We launched Ian Wedde's new poetry collection, The Little Ache – a German notebook, on Friday 16 July at Time Out Bookstore in Auckland. Here's what reader, writer, and true fan Susanna Andrew had to say about the book.Kia ora tātou katoa, I’m not F

We launched a marvellous new book, The Commercial Hotel by John Summers, at Unity Books Wellington on 15 July. Here's what our editor Ashleigh Young had to say about it.Sometimes I think that the harder a book is to describe, the more interesting it

The Pōneke launch of Tayi Tibble's second poetry collection, Rangikura, was (it goes without saying) hotly anticipated. VUP editor Jasmine Sargent launched the book at Unity Books Wellington, on Thursday 3 June, with this extraordinary speech. E

We recently launched Ash Davida Jane's fantastic debut poetry collection, How to Live with Mammals, at Unity Books Wellington. We were really happy to have Pip Adam there to launch the book for us. Below is Pip's speech. Thank you to everyone wh

Launch speech by Laura Jean McKayI want to tell you about an island off the coast of a very different place from here: where I was living in southern Cambodia. It was a weekend, the weather was fine enough, I climbed aboard the longboat that would ta