{"title":"Recent Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"killer-rack","title":"Killer Rack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/poetry\/killer-rack-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their generous and often euphoric first book, Sylvan Spring is constantly and irresistibly in motion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eThese are poems for the sad bitches, the silly billys, the divine transsexuals, the girls who were first to get piercings not in their ears, the ones who dream of dissolving into a river, the Cocteau Twins obsessives, the average bros, the immaculate twinks, the retired popstars turned chicken farmers, and fans of 2001 masterpiece \u003cem\u003eCharlie's Angels\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003eKiller Rack \u003c\/em\u003eunearthed bits and pieces of my brain that I couldn’t put language to until reading it. Good poetry gives you access to somebody else’s, great poetry gives you access to your own, the best makes you laugh while doing it. \u003cem\u003eKiller Rack \u003c\/em\u003eis the best.' —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Pause\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Killer Rack\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines the caustic and the poignant, the mundane and the glimmering, rotting vegetables and truths for staying alive amidst the rot. . . . In this collection, you’ll find connection and aloneness, healing and pain. You’ll also find a strong dose of hope, as shown in the final words of this book: “MY LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING.”' —Amber French, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'a wonderful blend of silly and seriously astute, making it a must read for lovers of both sexy and unabashedly honest poetry.' —Jo Bragg, \u003cem\u003eBad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e'Curious, generous, effervescent, electric . . . A beautiful book.' —Melissa Oliver\u003c\/span\u003e, RNZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Exploding in Queer joy, this beautiful, visceral experience of a book is precise and magnificent in its craft, expansive and affecting in its content, somehow intimate and communal in the same breath, wild and compassionate. I fucking love this book and weep with gratitude and excitement every time I remember it’s in the world.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Pip Adam, author of \u003cem\u003eAudition\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNothing to See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSylvan Spring\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Pākehā writer and occasional music-maker who has spent most of their life in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Their work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Turbine Kapohau\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSweet Mammalian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStasis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBad Apple\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover: Axel Deventer Olsthoorn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427212136759,"sku":"9781776921256","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Killer_Rack_front_cover_RGB_smaller__50520_64ec38bb-d4e5-446d-8301-6f5c05359294.jpg?v=1752013290"},{"product_id":"kitten","title":"kitten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/kitten-ebook?search=kitten\u0026amp;model=true\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eRosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous but timid, promiscuous but inexperienced. She’s surprising, and surprised by herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eA call that Rosemary’s grandmother is dying puts her on the bus from Te Whanganui-a-Tara back to Kirikiriroa. There, with her mother, half-sister, and other family and friends, she remembers the damage of her past. And then Thorn – Rosemary’s long-distance daddy – shows up. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eOften wildly funny, and with a tender, matter-of-fact closeness to the enigmatic Rosemary, \u003cem\u003ekitten\u003c\/em\u003e has the wisdom that nothing in life is straightforwardly good or bad. It is a novel for readers who want to be seen and understood, or to see and understand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eFor all its darkness and hurt, \u003cem\u003ekitten\u003c\/em\u003e is a wholesome and consoling love story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'I love this book, and this love makes it hard to write about \u003cem\u003ekitten\u003c\/em\u003e – I love it and I hold it close, it has completely changed my heart and returned the pleasure of reading to me.' —Pip Adam, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It is such a wonderful thing when a long-anticipated book meets and exceeds expectations. ... \u003cem\u003eKitten\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that carries its own trans literary whakapapa while forging its own path, and I loved it.' —Kate McLeod, \u003cem\u003eThe Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Hot, uncomfortable, challenging, hopeful (and did I mention \u003cem\u003ehot\u003c\/em\u003e?).' —Staff picks, Scorpio Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘I didn’t know I needed \u003cem\u003ekitten \u003c\/em\u003euntil I’d read it and after I’d read it I didn’t know how I’d made it so far without it. This is exactly the novel this fucked-up little country needs. Olive Nuttall shows us the pristine surface trans women present to the world and then folds it back and lets us gaze at all the mess beneath. This book made me cry and this book made me wet. Fuck the duality of man; that’s the duality of trans right there.’ —Always Becominging, author of \u003cem\u003eI Am a Human Being\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘I’d recommend \u003cem\u003ekitten\u003c\/em\u003e to anyone. The most striking thing about Olive Nuttall’s writing is her genuineness – she’s knowing and ironic but always open and compassionate; nothing is withheld from us. I felt a sense of growing intimacy and friendship between myself, Rosemary, and Nuttall – we were all in it together. \u003cem\u003eKitten\u003c\/em\u003e is about things I’d feel afraid to talk about even with my closest friends, but in Nuttall’s hands these things become human and approachable. I trust her completely.’ —Annaleese Jochems, author of \u003cem\u003eBaby\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlive Nuttall \u003c\/strong\u003ecompleted an MA in Creative Writing in 2022 at Te Pūtahu Tuhi Auaha o te Ao, the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the 2022 Adam Foundation Prize. \u003cem\u003eKitten\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCover illustration: Pluto (instagram \u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e@plutonicastromancy)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427212202295,"sku":"9781776921263","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Kitten_cover_final__07136_b88e01fa-7324-45b8-8251-c3b9ccd2872f.jpg?v=1752013292"},{"product_id":"do-you-still-have-time-for-chaos","title":"Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/biography\/do-you-still-have-time-for-chaos-ebook\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDid I disturb ye good people? I hopes I disturb ye, I hopes I disturb ye enough to want to see this, your house, in ruins all around ye! Have you had enough yet? Or do you still have time for chaos? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Words spoken in court by Temperance Lloyd when she was tried for witchcraft in Devon in 1682\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo You Still Have Time for Chaos?\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Randell Cottage residency in Wellington, she completes it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLynn Davidson’s long look back at what made and fractured her includes an account of single parenting with its shadows of poverty and stigma, and is interwoven with the ghostly presence of her uncontainable and courageous great aunt, and the long reach of witch hunts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo You Still Have Time for Chaos?\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to the literature of Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand. It has an ear to the land and its stories. It is a celebration of choice. It is an act of resistance to the persistent idea that women are safer to stay at home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'This memoir weaves together particular interests in an agile way: place, motherhood, feminism, women’s history, contemporary ideas of witchcraft and magic, art, writing and reading. I loved it.' —Claire Mabey \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'This compelling memoir explores the large themes of women’s experience and history, motherhood, migration and home; unusually for a woman, not tethered to a domestic space that she herself has created. Lynn Davidson ricochets from New Zealand to Scotland and back again, vividly recreating the landscapes she has inhabited. She is a brave spirit, in search of a life that will enable her to be the family member she wants to be, while remaining true to herself as the reader and writer she must be.' —Robyn Marsack\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ePoet, essayist and fiction writer \u003cstrong\u003eLynn Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Pukerua Bay, Wellington. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently\u003cem\u003e Islander\u003c\/em\u003e (Te Herenga Waka University Press and Shearsman), a novel, essays and short stories. Lynn had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency in the Cairngorms in 2016. She won the \u003cem\u003ePoetry New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Award in 2020, and was 2021 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writer in Residence. In 2023 she was the Mike Riddell Writer in Residence in Ōtūrēhua, Central Otago. 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Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life feels as big as a movie screen and times when it is more like ‘a loose stone to kick down the path’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eGathered here are names that travel through time, failed photos of the moon, and love like a feather in the throat. There are encounters with Hine-te-iwaiwa, the bird-woman Kurangaituku, Hine-nui-te-pō, and Hinemoana as she erodes the land with her wildness. This whole-hearted collection shows us how many ways there are to search for one’s bones and at last get to know them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e'A love letter to us so-called \"plastic\" Māori, to us queer Māori, to us still searching for their place Māori, a love letter to the powerful kuia who make us who we are, and spells to utter a better world in.' —essa may ranapiri, author of \u003cem\u003eechidna\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eransack\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'I love this book. . . . I feel like they do what you want poems to do, which is make you look twice.' —Claire Mabey, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'This is a book of mātauranga, of recovery, and of mana. . . . \u003cem\u003ePlastic \u003c\/em\u003eis a must-read for all. 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She is the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003etakahē\u003c\/em\u003e (Scrambler Books, 2014) and two chapbooks: \u003cem\u003enot a casual solitude\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2016) and \u003cem\u003ehoki mai \u003c\/em\u003e(If a Leaf Falls Press, 2020). She is currently a publisher and editor at Tender Press. She is the former poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eScum Mag\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAwa Wahine.\u003c\/em\u003e In 2019 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eCover illustration: Sarah McNeil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427213676855,"sku":"9781776921331","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/978177692133_RGB_Plastic_web__52963_0aafdfc5-45ed-4d71-985e-3322c510a2e6.jpg?v=1752013296"},{"product_id":"ash","title":"Ash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/ash-ebook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss’s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eBut something is shifting in Thea – something is burning. 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The cast are rendered alive by the lightest of brush strokes, the author choosing to notice what is most telling, selecting prose that scorches with wit. I cannot recall reading another text that so convincingly portrays the stream of micro-injustices that jab at the psyche of a working mother. Each incident presents an unseen injury, which combined spells a death by a thousand pinpricks.' —Anna Scaife, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Wallace\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four collections of poems, the latest of which is \u003cem\u003eThis Is a Story About Your Mother\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). 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It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock’s 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAdcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. 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Whether saving the planet in her Quaker childhood and activist youth, surviving the lonely years of early motherhood, or confronting the fears and freedoms of midlife – in which she writes about the body becoming a poem and human touch beginning to feel safe again – Beautrais’ lucid examination of experience reveals that the personal is inescapably political.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eThroughout these wide-ranging essays her vigilant critique of entrenched patriarchal control turns anger to resistance, as a woman finds a way out of its grip, back to herself and the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Deep personal experiences are examined fearlessly, juxtaposed with forays into topics such as literature, the environment, religion, media, dance and gardens. 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She has mastered the short sentence – staccato, one-line jabs that hit the reader over and over.' —Melody Nixon, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Honest and searching, intelligent and refined, Beautrais does not flinch when describing despair or personal denigration. \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Afternoon\u003c\/em\u003e explores the dynamics of abuse with sensitivity and understated clarity. . . . For me, \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Afternoon\u003c\/em\u003e is a precious resource.' —Amber French, \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Airini Beautrais is an intellectually rigorous and emotionally fearless examiner of the influences and experiences that have left their marks on her body and her mind, from Renaissance poetry to armpit-shaming, the Wellington punk scene to Quakerism. Candid, tender, at times self-lacerating, she roves fluently across the encounters and juxtapositions that make up a life, from the fleeting pleasures of daytime sex, to getting into fancy moisturiser as an anti-capitalist feminist, to studying Dante’s \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e and the quiet fuck-you of planting exactly the garden she wants to. Never not honest about hard things, especially the brutality that can happen in intimate relationships, you sometimes ache for her in her loneliness, but it's impossible to pity her. She doesn’t need it. Hers is the freedom that comes from taking the time, and the effort to look directly at herself and take her own measure as a writer, as a woman. Beautrais writes with a luminous, matter-of-fact intelligence about life's disappointments, and also life's consolations – writing, poetry, pole-dancing, magnolia blossoms –  with a level of care and attention that is in its own way a kind of liberation.’ —Noelle McCarthy, author of \u003cem\u003eGrand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAirini Beautrais \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Auckland in 1982. 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This is her first collection of essays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214037303,"sku":"9781776921324","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921324_RGB__04859_874ee621-4295-423e-a1d3-cd18e86d446a.jpg?v=1752013302"},{"product_id":"when-i-open-the-shop","title":"When I open the shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/when-i-open-the-shop-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg align=\"right\" height=\"50\" width=\"183\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eTold through a series of brilliant interludes and jump cuts, \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e is sometimes blackly funny, sometimes angry and sometimes lyrical, and sometimes – as a car soars off the road on a horror road trip to the Wairarapa – it takes flight into surrealism. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e'Now,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003elook,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003eloved\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003ethis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003ebook. It looks at race and the immigrant experience in a really nuanced, smart way. It's touching, insightful, kind of melancholy and funny.' —Kiran Dass, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'On every level – character, form, language – dissanayake manages to offer something both innovative and complex in when I open the shop. I loved this bold and beautiful book.' —Madeleine Ballard,\u003cem\u003e The Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It’s an exhilarating read, the general vibe of the novel akin to chancing on a frozen lake and deciding then and there to get your skates on. But there’s unpredictability in the firmness of the ice and fascinating things lurk underneath; those figure-eight loops demand rigorous attention to craft.' —Angelique Kasmara, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about loss, exile and dislocation, in which time, space, and memory become a beautiful, fluid thing. It is very funny, angry and constantly pleasurable and moving in the way it depicts people opening space for themselves, and finding comfort, in spite of everything.’ —Brannavan Gnanalingam, author of \u003cem\u003eSprigs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSlow Down, You’re Here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e‘This is a beautiful and compelling work. The language is magnificent on a sentence-by-sentence level, but I think that the structure is an incredibly adept act of decolonisation.’ —Pip Adam, author of\u003cem\u003e Audition\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Nothing to See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'Much of \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop \u003c\/em\u003eis a gift. It has the feeling of embodiment to it—not the general embodiment of life, but the specific embodiment of this person, this narrator, who moves through the world in their particular way, with their particular history—which we are delivered glimpses of throughout the book. The story is most of the time, highly uninterested in ‘explaining’ itself.' —Hannah Patterson, \u003cem\u003ebad apple\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'What makes dissanayake, and his debut, special is how he finds the music in naturalism, and the symphony in routine. . . . Fittingly, for a book about a man who opens his own space to put down his stake in the world, dissanayake has done exactly the same.' —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Pause\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'While the narrative drives us forward, dissanayake’s poetic sensibilities allow for a closer view, zooming in to focus on a small moment or musing, then zooming back out again for the narrative push to take over.' —Louise Wallace, \u003cem\u003eNZ Poetry Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eromesh dissanayake \u003c\/strong\u003e(Sri Lankan, Koryo Saram) is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePantograph Punch\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Enjoy Contemporary Art Space\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Clear Dawn: An Anthology of Emerging Asian New Zealand Writers\u003c\/em\u003e. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eover illustration: H Y Chai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214299447,"sku":"9781776921300","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921300_RGB_WIOTS_web__95603_95493a2d-a80b-4e07-8573-47cc88bc1bf3.jpg?v=1752013305"},{"product_id":"fragile-foundations","title":"Fragile Foundations","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fragile-foundations-ebook\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThe arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Māori societies and those of the newcomers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLike a subduction zone between two tectonic plates, each pressing against the other, this clash led to ruptures, often with long-term consequences. This ground-breaking book examines a series of notable criminal trials in order to understand how the indiscriminate application of English criminal law in New Zealand during the 19th century shaped the landscape of contemporary society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThese trials partially explain why Māori continue to be adversely affected by this country’s criminal justice system, and also expose the punitive way in which English criminal law was applied during the pre-colonial and colonial eras – a trait that is never far from the surface of modern New Zealand society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'David Collins’ highly commendable book serves as a timely reminder of that earlier, uglier, monocultural and often brutal and barbaric, criminal law system.' —Vincent O'Malley, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Authoritative and readable' \u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e retired as a permanent member of the Court of Appeal in 2024, having previously served as a High Court Judge for seven years and as Solicitor-General for six years. His first book, \u003cem\u003eMedical Law in New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Brooker \u0026amp; Friend in 1992.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover photograph details: \u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eBarrett’s Hotel, Wellington, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ePictorial Illustrations of New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e by S. C. Brees (London: John Williams and Co., 1847), drawn by Samuel Charles Brees, engraved by Henry Melville. Ref: A-109-027, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand; and '\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eThe Old Bailey, Known Also as the Central Criminal Court' (1808), Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214430519,"sku":"9781776921355","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921355_RGB_Fragile_Foundations__15068_16643a47-30d5-410b-bee9-2860240eb177.jpg?v=1752013310"},{"product_id":"consolations-of-insignificance-a-new-zealand-diplomatic-memoir","title":"Consolations of Insignificance: A New Zealand Diplomatic Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/politics-and-social-issues\/consolations-of-insignificance-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eTerence O’Brien was a born diplomat – urbane, clever, adaptable and hardworking, with a talent for strategy and negotiation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAlthough born in England, he was a loyal and dedicated New Zealander and spent most of his life working to improve the country’s position internationally. In his 50-year foreign affairs career he lived and worked in Asia, Europe and the South Pacific, and was involved in some of New Zealand’s most important diplomatic achievements of the 20th century, including establishing New Zealand’s first embassy in China, securing trade agreements with the United Kingdom after it joined the EEC, dealing with the fallout from New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy, directing New Zealand diplomacy during the Fiji coups, and gaining a seat on the UN Security Council during the turbulent early 1990s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis memoir is bursting with anecdotes from behind the scenes, and offers insight into the ways in which New Zealand has used its ‘insignificance’ on the world stage to achieve results which outweigh its size and importance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'This insightful book on Terence Christopher O’Brien’s life’s work is one that I recommend to all who want a better understanding of how New Zealand and the world developed their thinking over the past 60 years following the end of World War II.' —Jim Bolger, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eTerence O'Brien \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e(1936–2022) served as a diplomat with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for over 40 years. He served as High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, Ambassador to the United Nations and the European Union, a term at the UN in Geneva including the World Trade Organization, and finally to the UN in New York, including a term as President of the UN Security Council. He was the founding director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He wrote and lectured widely on international and regional relations, security affairs, and New Zealand foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photograph: Terence O'Brien photographed by Judith Ahern\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214561591,"sku":"9781776921393","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921393_RGB_Terence_OBrien__20122_a4029c41-14c7-4fe9-a4b6-1b8c42982bac.jpg?v=1752013312"},{"product_id":"performance","title":"Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/performance-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e is a self-portrait like no other. David Coventry takes us into his experience of ME, a debilitating systemic disease which took hold in March 2013 but has roots in his childhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFor Coventry, ME radically overturns the rules of time, thought and embodiment – an experience which has shaped the writing of this book. Through an illuminating blend of life transcription and deep imaginative projection, he shows how placing fiction into the stories of our damaged lives can remind us of who we are and who we might have been, even when so much of us has been taken away by illness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFrom a mountaineering disaster in Kaikōura to a literary encounter in Austria, a country mansion to a volcanic archipelago, this novel is a strikingly vivid, at times disorienting series of journeys, stopovers and emergencies that take in the world, one in which Coventry is often an outsider, even when at home in Wellington. With purposeful unreliability and flashes of humour amid pain and searching,\u003cem\u003e Performance\u003c\/em\u003e takes us into a space where ‘reading’ itself fails as a description of how we meet the text. This is a generous, unforgettable vista of life within illness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Like all great art, \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e defies paraphrase. This novel is a staggeringly ambitious work that few writers or scholars could conceive and probably only one could enact. It locates David Coventry in a genealogy of modern and postmodern writers including Virginia Woolf and Thomas Bernhard, whose illness intelligence is part of what makes their work innovative, important, and unforgettable.’ —Martha Stoddard Holmes, author of \u003cem\u003eFictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victoria Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A masterpiece of narrative disintegration with a deep psychic grip on the reader – a book whose design not infrequently had me exhaling in both profound affect and aesthetic astonishment. A monumental achievement.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Tracey Slaughter, author of\u003cem\u003e Devil’s Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Conventional Weapons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e is a mesmerising and at times beautiful read, albeit tragic . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe reader too feels a sense falling into Coventry’s world as they read this extraordinary book.' —Alyson Baker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Compelling, thoughtful, memorable, suitably frustrating and disconcerting. It is a unique contribution to the literature of illness.' —Thomas Koed, Volume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Performance\u003c\/em\u003e has all the qualities of the best \"creative non-fiction\" – compelling characters, arresting situations, stimulating themes – but Coventry permits himself something more besides: points of view other than his own and fantastical flights (at one point literally) of imagination that take leave of reality altogether. . . . And despite what it asks of us as readers – perhaps \u003cem\u003ebecause\u003c\/em\u003e of what it asks of us – \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e leaves more of an impression than many a more conventional book.' — Guy Somerset, \u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Coventry\u003c\/strong\u003e’s first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Mile\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. It was also published in the UK and Commonwealth by Picador UK, and the USA and Canada by Europa Editions. It has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Danish and German. His second novel, \u003cem\u003eDance Prone\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2020. David received an MA in Creative Writing in 2010 from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he was the recipient of the 2015 Todd New Writer’s Bursary from Creative New Zealand. In 2022 he completed his PhD exploring the complexities and impossibilities of living a creative life with ME\/CFS – a project which was selected for the 2022 Dean’s List, and forms the basis of \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). He was the 2022 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photograph: Henry Coventry, Tararua Lodge Fire, Mt Ruapehu, 8 August 1954\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Simon Waterfield\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214725431,"sku":"9781776920808","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776920808_Performance_RGB__05728_fe05eb3c-10b2-4c9d-abe9-e2826e22195c.jpg?v=1752013314"},{"product_id":"first-things","title":"First Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/biography\/first-things-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst going hitchhiking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst seeing my father angry. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst shotgun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst poem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003elens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eacross a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003efragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eobsessions that have shaped Ricketts’ world, from his first friends \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eand rivals to his first time being caned by a teacher and his first time \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003edropping acid. There are other, more enigmatic firsts here too, like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ethe first time he realised what really mattered, and the first time he \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ebegan doubting God. ‘I wanted to believe in God and, even more, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ewanted God to believe in me.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eWho really were we, back then? Which parts of ourselves get to be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eremembered and carried along with us, and which parts are gone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eforever? In \u003cem\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/em\u003e, the gaps in between shine as brightly as the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ememories themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'Right from the start, you’re into Ricketts’ thoughtful, often engagingly whimsical prose. It’s the voice of a good lecturer, plus a bit more. The puzzles that are people intrigue him; they’re recorded and respected.' —David Hill, \u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'When a brilliant polymath like Harry Ricketts takes to memoir, you just know it is going to be something special. \u003cem\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/em\u003e does what it says on the tin. It’s an exercise in autobiography defined by firsts: the first things that he can remember, the first times he experienced certain things – his first poem, his first shotgun, the first time he went hitchhiking, the first time he ever saw his father angry.' \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eAndrew Paul Wood, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarry Ricketts\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and literary scholar and has published around 30 books. He has lived in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, since 1981. Until his retirement in 2022, he was a professor in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. His books include the internationally acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling\u003c\/em\u003e (1999) and \u003cem\u003eStrange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). His recent poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eWinter Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). 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This is fiction that rubs very close to the bone.’ —Claire Mabey, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘A wrenchingly effective, darkly funny and flawlessly crafted single-sitting thriller.’ —Sam Finnemore, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I want nothing more than for people to read the book so I can discuss the ending with them.’ —Rachael King, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleanor Catton\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), winner of the Booker Prize, the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award, and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Rehearsal\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), won the New Zealand Best First Book of Fiction Award and the Betty Trask Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted \u003cem\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/em\u003e for television, and Jane Austen’s\u003cem\u003e Emma\u003c\/em\u003e for feature film. Born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she lives in Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCover: Jon Gray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427215282487,"sku":"9781776921409","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921409__02677_7c0555a1-d5e4-4274-ae68-da2e803037a3.jpg?v=1752013322"},{"product_id":"tarot","title":"Tarot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/tarot-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eHere are the cards. Put your hand on them,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eClose your eyes. You don’t want to?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eBut you are blind with them open.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eJake Arthur’s beguiling second poetry collection opens with a tarot reader coaxing us into a reading over a cup of tea. And in a rush of vivid scenes and impressions, we begin to imagine episodes from different lives – a woman tries to train a robin; parents anxiously attend a teacher–parent interview; a man is cast overboard and wonders if he will ever be found. Each card prompts a new character to mull over their uncertainties, hopes, obstacles and joys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLoosely inspired by the illustrations of the famous 1909 Rider-Waite tarot deck, with its riotous depictions of magicians, occultists, lovers, fools and angels, these poems have us grappling our way towards a clear path.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘An enchanted and enchanting clamour. Intimate, wise, utterly glorious.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e—Catherine Chidgey, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Axeman's Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 17.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eAs beautiful as it is to be gifted Arthur’s poetry and his sense of place and image, it’s even more a pleasure to feel just a bit smarter, and richer after reading it.' —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Paus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 17.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; color: #15212a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 17.333334px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 17.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'A joyful collection.' —Claire Mabey, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 17.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Tarot \u003c\/em\u003eis always deft in its movements between the mystical and the material, the poetic and the literal. Though the narrator seems initially to have reached a conclusion about the meaning of the image, the last word they have is used to doubt themselves in such a way that creates space for resonance, emotionality, and wonder.' —Dani Yourukova, \u003cem\u003ebadapple\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-feature-settings: normal;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJake Arthur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eA Lack of Good Sons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e, included in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e’s Best Poetry of 2023. His poems have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eBest New Zealand Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSport\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eMimicry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eTurbine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSweet Mammalian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e. He has a PhD in Renaissance literature and translation from Oxford University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover illustrations: Pamela Colman Smith, from the 1909 Rider-Waite tarot deck\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427215413559,"sku":"9781776921379","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921379_Tarot__14799_56aca8fc-8d27-4608-8d4b-e4669104b770.jpg?v=1752013325"},{"product_id":"ngaa-mahi-whakaari-a-tiitokowaru-new-edition","title":"Ngaa mahi whakaari a Tiitokowaru (new edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/ngaa-mahi-whakaari-a-tiitokowaru-new-edition-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eKei ngaa whaarangi o teenei pukapuka e hahua ake ana ngaa koorero o Tiitokowaru.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eHe rangatira ahurei, he tohunga amorangi, he toa kai pakanga, he aporei aarahi i oona iwi ki te nguha o riri whakauaua ki te aarai atu i te whakaariki e whakatangatanga mai raa ki te mana papatipu o oo raatou whenua.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eNaa toona ake, naa Ruka Alan Broughton, ka puea ake ngaa koorero a Aotea waka moo Tiitokowaru; rerekee noa atu i te nuinga o ngaa koorero kua tuhia e ngaa kaituhi Paakehaa. Kei konei e whakanuia ai a Tiitokowaru, e waanangahia ai toona taha tangata me toona taha atua ki taa Aotea waananga. Kei konei hoki e utua ai ngaa whakapae, ngaa haahani i utaina ki te upoko o Tiitokowaru tae atu ki oona iwi. Ko te mutunga atu, kore rawa he toa kai pakanga o Aotearoa nei tee rite ki a Tiitokowaru.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis new edition of\u003cem\u003e Ngaa mahi whakaari a Tiitokowawu\u003c\/em\u003e is one of four new editions of essential reo Māori texts released in 2024 by Te Herenga Waka University Press, in collaboration with Te Takarangi, a national programme celebrating mātauranga Māori through Māori-authored works of non-fiction. The other three titles are:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e \u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/apirana-turupa-ngata-ana-tuhinga-i-te-reo-maori-new-edition\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eApirana Turupa Ngata: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/reweti-kohere-nga-korero-a-reweti-kohere-ma\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eNga kōrero a Reweti Kohere mā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/mohi-turei-ana-tuhinga-i-roto-i-te-reo-maori-new-edition\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMohi Turei: Āna tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRangiāhuta Alan Herewini Ruka Broughton\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ngā Rauru, Ngāti Ruanui) was a tohunga, Anglican priest, and university lecturer. He was born in Whanganui in 1940 and known as Ruka Broughton. In 1978 he began work as a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, and together with Hirini Mead and Wiremu Parker he was influential in establishing a marae on the campus in 1985. He was an officiating tohunga at the opening of the exhibition Te Māori in New York. He completed an MA in 1979 with a thesis on Ngā Rauru presented entirely in the Taranaki dialect of te reo Māori. His thesis on Tītokowaru was published posthumously in 1993 as \u003cem\u003eNgaa Mahi Whakaari a Tiitokowaru.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover design: Tane Morris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427215839543,"sku":"9781776922024","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Ngaa-Mahi-Whakaari-A-Tiitokowaru__92661_4e637a5a-8468-4f30-9b88-705fc1e2a24d.jpg?v=1752013331"},{"product_id":"slim-volume","title":"Slim Volume","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/slim-volume-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eJames Brown’s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives – before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Always compelling, funny, heartening, Brown speaks volumes even when claiming to have little to say.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘James Brown makes the process of reading feel effortless, but always rewards active attention. Like Stevie Smith, he can sometimes seem to be waving and drowning at the same time.’ —Bill Manhire, \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'hilariously clever: a linguistic and intellectual delight' —Margaret Austin, \u003cem\u003eRegional News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Poetry, whether reading or writing, is an exhilarating form of travel. Especially reading James Brown, especially savouring the sweet whirr of the line, the turning back for a second look to see things afresh, the unmistakable accumulation of physical joy.' —Paula Green, \u003cem\u003eNZ Poetry Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘How gifted Brown is at the craft of poetry, the game of word and sounds on the page that are tidy and tight and clever and cool. And also how he lifts aside that cleverness to show us the tender inner self, the moist soft core of James Brown and his world.’ —Anna Livesey, \u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Funny, dark, insightful and nothing close to a chore to read. Poetry, but it doesn’t suck.’ —Alex Grace, \u003cem\u003eGoodreads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e's previous poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eThe Tip Shop\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eFloods Another Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eWarm Auditorium\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eThe Year of the Bicycle\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), which was a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007, \u003cem\u003eFavourite Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eLemon\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), and \u003cem\u003eGo Round Power Please\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), which won the Best First Book Award for Poetry. James works as an editor and teaches the Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photograph: Russell Kleyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427216429367,"sku":"9781776922017","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922017_Slim_Volume__55362_e9266206-024e-4492-8f5e-e19ab37e026a.jpg?v=1752013335"},{"product_id":"still-is","title":"Still Is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/still-is-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eThe thrushes are back. The blackbirds too\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eare back, already worrying the thrushes,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003efilching their choice worms. The gorse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eis running the hills along the Aramoana\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eRoad, spills the slopes yellow; the broom,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eso much more politely, you call it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003egold. 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These are poems that call and respond, poems that elaborate and pare down, and poems in which an ending is a beginning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #15212a; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e'The fact that \u003cem\u003eStill Is\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a bunch of different, eloquent, strangers is a testament to the breadth of O’Sullivan’s experience and also his style. . . . It feels if not an ending, then a eulogy. 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Outstanding.’ —Malika Booker, Manchester Poetry Prize 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracey Slaughter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eDevil’s Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e (stories, 2021), \u003cem\u003eConventional Weapons\u003c\/em\u003e (poems, 2019), \u003cem\u003eDeleted Scenes for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e (stories, 2016), \u003cem\u003eThe Longest Drink in Town\u003c\/em\u003e (novella, 2015), and \u003cem\u003eHer Body Rises\u003c\/em\u003e (poems and short stories, 2005). Her novella \u003cem\u003eIf There Is No Shelter\u003c\/em\u003e was published in the UK by Ad Hoc in 2020. 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Marshall dives fearlessly into the darkest topics – pain, loss, abandonment, violence, death, madness, war – and comes up with a testament you won’t forget.' —John Dolan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Marshall’s whirlwind prose effortlessly slams the reader with neck-snapping speed from laughter to sorrow to recognition to disbelief and then back again.  An uncommonly good debut by an author who is as original as she is undeniable.’ —Victor Rodger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'Talia Marshall is fearless. 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She’s ditched school to help her aunty clean houses—even though she has a full-time job looking after all the moko. But no one cares, and soon she will be picked clean, like the bones in her maamaa’s bedroom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eSTAR is home for the first time in years, and he’s worn the same clothes for days. Everything feels unfamiliar: the karakia, his nephews, the house that he grew up in. He’s too scared to tell his family that he’s bombing back at uni. And the past is an affliction, a gently rising tide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIt is 178 years after colonisation. Together, the cousins escape. Free-wheeling across the countryside in a car without a warrant, they cast their net widely. Their family mythologies, heartaches and rifts will surface, and amidst them the glint of possibility: a return to the whenua where it all began.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA tragicomedy set in the confines of a 1994 Daihatsu Mira, \u003cem\u003ePoorhara\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey of epic proportions—a poignant, expansive and darkly funny first novel written by a true poorhara.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003ePoorhara\u003c\/em\u003e is a road trip novel unlike any other. Two cousins, Erin and Star, pile into a 1994 Daihatsu Mira in a desperate bid to escape the suffocation of racism and poverty, the rigid expectations of whānau, and the trajectory of their own pasts. We were impressed by the urgency of Rahurahu's tragicomic crises and the clarity of her depiction of colonialism, a presence in the book as incessant and rotten as Star’s relentless toothache.' —Judges' comments, 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e‘This is a novel to get excited about, a compulsive, absorbing, cinematic work of beauty.’ —Amber French, \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Rahurahu's book \u003cem\u003ePoorhara\u003c\/em\u003e blew me away.' —Miriama Kamo,\u003cem\u003e NZ Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"ltr\" class=\"a ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u ui-provider v w x y z\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Poorhara\u003c\/em\u003e is a hilarious and heartbreaking debut with characters so stunningly well-realised they will walk into your dreams at night. It’s a hero's journey with no easy answers – just harsh, furious life with all the pain, the anger and the beauty we can barely hold in or hold together. Rahurahu is a genius.' —essa may ranapiri\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eransack\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eechidna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"ltr\" class=\"a ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u ui-provider v w x y z\"\u003e'Rahurahu takes what could otherwise be a heavy story told in a depressing world, and gives it the grace and love that it deserves. . . . \u003c\/span\u003eIn just three hundred pages, following two cousins in a car, Rahurahu tells the story of a nation in conflict, a deeply disparate society, and a family surviving through it. It is as honest a portrait of Aotearoa as I’ve read all year, and I’m likely to for many years.' —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Pause\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMidden Rahurahu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e (Ngaati Rahurahu, Ngaati Tahu-Ngaati Whaoa) is a writer who was raised by taangata turi. They were a co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTe Rito o te Harakeke\u003c\/em\u003e, an anthology of Maaori voices for Ihumaatao. 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The best contemporary book I’ve read for ages.’ — Marion Castree\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuncan Sarkies\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer of novels, theatre, and screen stories for film and television. \u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" data-outlook-id=\"14358d7c-1834-4db9-92e2-40fb5137c776\"\u003eHe has been recognised with the Best First Book of Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for \u003cem\u003eStray Thoughts and Nosebleeds\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eBruce Mason Playwriting Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e Duncan\u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" data-outlook-id=\"d55b9d40-cf7a-41ee-8ce9-d9e9ecce46ae\"\u003e has received the Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary, the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, and a residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eDuncan’s screenplays include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eScarfies,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e and the adaptation of his first novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eTwo Little Boys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e, both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\" title=\"\" data-outlook-id=\"29b65d95-88a9-4201-bddb-b4afd7014509\"\u003ecollaborations\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" data-outlook-id=\"e61fe887-f369-4122-819f-384c93b4ba25\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2; font-size: xx-small;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003ewith his brother Robert. 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Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. Children who survive are allowed to move to the Big House in Margate, a destination of mythical proportions, desired by every Sycamore child. Meanwhile, in Exeter, Nancy lives a secluded life with her parents, who never let her leave the house. As the government looks to shut down the Sycamore homes and place their residents into the community, the triplets’ lives begin to intersect with Nancy’s, culminating in revelations that will rock the children to the core. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eGradually surrendering its dark secrets, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Guilt\u003c\/em\u003e is a spellbinding novel from one of our greatest storytellers: a profoundly unnerving exploration of belonging in a world where some lives are valued less than others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘It's early, but we're calling it: this is the book of the year.’\u003cem\u003e —The Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Guilt\u003c\/em\u003e is phenomenal. 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Since leaving politics in 1990 he has been a law professor, a foundation partner of a law firm, President of the Law Commission, chair of the Legislation Design Committee (2006–2008), New Zealand’s Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, and chair of the Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident for the United Nations in New York, amongst many other distinguished appointments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThe Symposium held at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in October 2022 in Geoffrey Palmer’s honour and to mark the University’s \u003cem\u003eGoverning for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e strategic theme in the 125th year since the Victoria College Act 1897 was enacted, provided an opportunity for all who attended to think deeply and broadly about whether law and policy in a wide range of areas are fit for the future. In the essays in this book, eminent judges, scholars and politicians discuss themes that have animated his career in public affairs, including: constitutional government; democracy and its integrity; indigenous-state relations and te Tiriti o Waitangi; the environment and climate change; law reform and human rights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eDr Mark Hickford, Barrister, Thorndon Chambers, Wellington\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eHon Dr Matthew S R Palmer, Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLaw, politics, policy and government\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeoffrey Palmer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eSome reflections on Cabinet government: A former minister’s perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Caygill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThe role of political parties in New Zealand’s democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMargaret Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eSafeguarding democracy through prudent anticipatory governance: the case of climate change adaptation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJonathan Boston\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eGoverning an unimaginable future\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSimon Upton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLegal myth-takes and the Crown’s claim to sovereignty over Aotearoa New Zealand: The implications for New Zealand’s constitution\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eClaire Charters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eUltimate legal principles for Aotearoa New Zealand: The place of the Treaty of Waitangi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlex Frame\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eConstitutional legitimacy and diversity: The value of pluralism and filling gaps in the common law\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMai Chen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eBack to the future: Sir Geoffrey Palmer’s 'new public law'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDean Knight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLegal change: 'reform', 'legality' and the (once?) 'political constitution'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJack Hodder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThe rights frame of mind\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelen Winkelmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eBills of rights: “Nonsense upon stilts” or an enhancement of democracy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenneth Keith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eSome lessons for governance in New Zealand drawn from the global context\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eColin Keating\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eNormative mismatch and the failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJonathan Carlson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover illustration: Tom Scott\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427219116343,"sku":"9781776921195","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921195_The_Futures_of_Democracy_Palmer__12999_91462d4f-343b-4231-87b3-3ce513e88dc0.jpg?v=1752013372"},{"product_id":"challenging-the-status-quo-a-political-memoir","title":"Challenging the Status Quo: A Political Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/challenging-the-status-quo-a-political-memoir-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘Next Tuesday we’re going to elect a new deputy leader and it’s not going to be you,’ said Prime Minister Robert Muldoon to his Associate Minister of Finance, Derek Quigley, late one evening in February 1981, shortly after Quigley had co-led the abortive Colonels’ Coup that sought to topple the PM.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eA farmer and lawyer, Derek Quigley had entered Parliament just five years earlier as National MP for Rangiora. After his falling out with Muldoon he was an advisor to the Lange\/Douglas Labour government, then a cofounder of the ACT Party. Re-elected to Parliament in 1996, he became chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Select Committee, whose report \u003cem\u003eDefence Beyond 2000\u003c\/em\u003e became the ‘blueprint’ for the Clark Labour government’s defence policy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenging the Status Quo\u003c\/em\u003e is a principled conservative’s insider history of New Zealand’s evolving maturity from its golden years when it was beholden to Britain to its status as an independent nation in today’s uncertain world. It highlights some of the successes and failures of the country’s key politicians during that progression and illustrates what needs to be done to avoid the mistakes of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘Derek Quigley earned a reputation as an issues-driven politician. 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Young as she is, Justine must decide where her loyalties lie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eSet in New Zealand in 1984 and 2014, and probing themes of racism and misogyny, \u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegant and chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Child\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Remote Sympathy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Axeman’s Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A lingering, haunting book.’ —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e is an enthralling page-turner, laced with dark ominous themes, examining both the oppressive racism that was rampant in the 1980s and the far-reaching power of the Catholic church.’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Chidgey again displays her prodigious talent for psychological suspense and minutely evoking past eras.’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘an accomplished, hugely engaging novel with an impressive ability to compel the reader forward with elegance, verve and style’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘utterly brilliant . . . Another truly terrific novel from one of our most talented and hardworking writers.’ —Kelly Ana Morey, \u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Chidgey\u003c\/strong\u003e’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, \u003cem\u003eIn a Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second, \u003cem\u003eGolden Deeds\u003c\/em\u003e, was a Notable Book of the Year in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e and a Best Book in the \u003cem\u003eLA Times\u003c\/em\u003e. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize twice for \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Child\u003c\/em\u003e. Her 2020 novel, \u003cem\u003eRemote Sympathy\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. \u003cem\u003eThe Axeman’s Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e (2022) won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Catherine’s most recent novel is the critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). She lives in Ngāruawāhia and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427219444023,"sku":"9781776922253","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922253_Pet_B_format__82588_ed0a6469-59d4-4761-b7ac-a74570d55a87.jpg?v=1752013379"},{"product_id":"the-axemans-carnival-b-format","title":"The Axeman's Carnival (B Format)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/the-axeman-s-carnival-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web-1748422784904.png?t=1748422785\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"58\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eEverywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. ‘If it keeps me awake,’ says Marnie’s husband Rob, a farmer, ‘I’ll have to wring its neck.’ But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple’s future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds – and all of the precarity, darkness and hope within them – bleed into one another. Like a stock truck filled with live cargo, the story moves inexorably towards its dramatic conclusion: the annual Axeman’s Carnival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart trickster, part surrogate child, part witness, Tama the magpie is the star of this story. Though what he says aloud to humans is often nonsensical (and hilarious with it), the tale he tells us weaves a disturbingly human sense. The Axeman’s Carnival is Catherine Chidgey at her finest – comic, profound, poetic and true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Remarkable, brilliant, a classic in the making.’ —Rachael King, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A compulsive read and flat-out brilliant.’ —Elizabeth Knox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of our very best novelists knocks it out of the park.’ —Kelly Ana Morey, \u003cem\u003eNZ Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘New Zealand novel of the year and bird of the year.’ —Philip Matthews, \u003cem\u003eStuff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Chidgey\u003c\/strong\u003e’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, \u003cem\u003eIn a Fishbone Church\u003c\/em\u003e, won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific). In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second, \u003cem\u003eGolden Deeds\u003c\/em\u003e, was a Notable Book of the Year in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e and a Best Book in the \u003cem\u003eLA Times\u003c\/em\u003e. Catherine has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize twice for \u003cem\u003eThe Wish Child\u003c\/em\u003e. Her 2020 novel, \u003cem\u003eRemote Sympathy\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. \u003cem\u003eThe Axeman’s Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e (2022) won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Catherine’s most recent novel is the critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). She lives in Ngāruawāhia and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover illustration: Jess Newton\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427219575095,"sku":"9781776922260","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922260_The_Axemans_Carnival_B_format__26770_3afa5d59-6bfc-487b-978d-ff8c71810238.jpg?v=1752013381"},{"product_id":"black-sugarcane","title":"Black Sugarcane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/poetry\/black-sugarcane-ebook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"60\" width=\"200\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web-1739414417313.png?t=1739414415\" style=\"float: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2026 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA soft worrier, I’m Nua-No-Myth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003espeaking in centipede,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ewith a sweet hiding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ein the dark of my cheek.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Sugarcane\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shrugging office clerk, and Nafanua herself, an enigmatic shapeshifter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAt the heart of \u003cem\u003eBlack Sugarcane\u003c\/em\u003e is a sequence of erasure poems arising from the seminal essay ‘In Search of Tagaloa’ by Tui Atua Tamasese Ta‘isi Efi. From the worlds contained in the text, these poems rise as if inevitable. Another sequence responds to the devastating tsunami that stuck between the Samoan islands of Upolu and Tutuila in September 2009. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWithin the line, within the word and even the letter, these poems speak to creation and translation, destruction and regeneration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'one of the year's best books of poetry' \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e—ReadingRoom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘The poems in \u003cem\u003eBlack Sugarcane\u003c\/em\u003e are laced with panthers and cobras. Nafanua Purcell Kersel yields her machete-pen with ease, humour and aroha, clearing paths, riding waves, carving memory and bending time. Her poetic vision is both minuscule-microscopic and drone-distant, opening space for the vā to take shape. She is writing on a branch from the same rākau as Selina Tusitala Marsh and Tusiata Avia.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Anne-Marie Te Whiu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘I was blown away by this book. The poems are playful and powerful, fresh and original.’ —Airini Beautrais\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNafanua Purcell Kersel\u003c\/strong\u003e (Satupa‘itea, Faleālupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu) is a writer, poet and performer who was born in Sāmoa and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Her poetry has been widely published. She has an MA from the IIML and won the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry for \u003cem\u003eBlack Sugarcane\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover art: \u003cem\u003eToto maligi i le ele‘ele\u003c\/em\u003e by Momoe i manu ae ala atea‘e Tasker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427219771703,"sku":"9781776922222","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922222_Black_Sugarcane__45826_96e90ba2-412c-4e83-8afc-52910f687f7c.jpg?v=1752013383"},{"product_id":"makeshift-seasons","title":"Makeshift Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/makeshift-seasons-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web-1748307842951.png?t=1748307843\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"55\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe failings of the body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecan be a form of company\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ea trapped nerve ringing in the night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003elike music.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eKate Camp’s poetry has been described by readers as fearless, affable and ‘containing a surprising radicalism and power’. 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The poems move between distant planets and Chappies Dairy, between Mont-Saint-Michel and the lighthouse in Island Bay, with every moment, every feeling, every conviction on the edge of becoming another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the plumber who can hear water running deep underground, \u003cem\u003eMakeshift Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of extraordinarily sharp sensing and knowing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Kate Camp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘These magical, knotty works react to a fragile world, and Camp navigates the light along with the dark.’ —Paula Green \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Each poem’s like a bumper ride in a fairground, crashing into obstacles, at once jarring and exhilarating.’ —David Eggleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Here is “the so-called outside world”, and here is its wonderfully sensitive, fluently understated poet.’ —Stephanie Burt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A wild, imaginative energy flares throughout the collection. Kate Camp is a fearless writer.’ —New Zealand Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ePoet and essayist \u003cstrong\u003eKate Camp\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington. She is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2011 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. She is the author of seven previous collections of poems, including \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and a collection of autobiographical essays, \u003cem\u003eYou Probably Think This Song Is About You\u003c\/em\u003e (2022).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photo: [woman on beach], New Zealand, by Eric Lee-Johnson. © Te Papa. 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But tectonic shifts are present in Brent Kininmont’s second book of poetry, and so are companions. The child, for instance, carried up a mountain in the titular opening poem, and companions alive to the brevity of their time together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eKininmont, who grew up in Aotearoa, has lived in Japan for many years, and so these poems are of a life between two places and \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eof the body in anxious or joyful motion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, 'S60 Sans', 'BBAlpha Sans', Droid, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e'Kininmont’s terrific second book has that sense of lived experience finding forms which release thought and feeling. I read it in one go as a kind of interrupted story.' —Damien Wilkins\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSunday Star-Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘This book is a companion to life and to living, to loved ones, here and departed. This book delivers poetry as companionship.’ —Paula Green,\u003cem\u003e NZ Poetry Shelf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThuds Underneath\u003c\/em\u003e is amazing. . . . His poems are like riddles, full of linguistic play.’ —Gregory O'Brien, RNZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrent Kininmont\u003c\/strong\u003e is from Ōtautahi Christchurch and now lives in Tokyo. A former journalist, he leads seminars in intercultural communication. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and his poems have appeared widely in Aotearoa, including in three editions of \u003cem\u003eŌrongohau\u003c\/em\u003e | \u003cem\u003eBest New Zealand Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. His first book of poetry was \u003cem\u003eThuds Underneath (\u003c\/em\u003e2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover art: Derek Mitchell, \u003cem\u003eAnatomical Landscape IV\u003c\/em\u003e, collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; William A. Sutton bequest, 2000\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220099383,"sku":"9781776922888","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922888_Companion_to_Volcanology__78852_9ec51ad4-ddca-40a0-bb02-8bcd74bfa1c8.jpg?v=1752013388"},{"product_id":"without-fear-or-favour-a-life-in-law","title":"Without Fear or Favour: A Life in Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/without-fear-or-favour-a-life-in-law-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web.png?t=1739413048\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"60\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eIn this essential book, Sir Kenneth Keith draws on his illustrious career as a lawyer, teacher, judge and judicial reformer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Fear or Favour\u003c\/em\u003e begins with fundamentals: who does what and how, the sources of law nationally and internationally, constitutional principles and values, and time and the law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eKeith then moves on to consider the growth (and retreat) of the law, with chapters on the roles of international law in our constitutional and legal system, te Tiriti o Waitangi, bringing law to bear on governments, and protecting human rights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ePart three considers the law of negligence and piracy, the actions of public authorities, the disclosure and protection of information, the writing and reading of law, and litigating and judging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eFinally, Keith turns to the future. What roles will the legal academy, the law and lawyers play as we face the major challenges ahead?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Without Fear or Favour\u003c\/em\u003e is a book to be read on many levels: as an account of a life in law lived generously and intelligently; as a sane and thoughtful description of the legal order; as a history of the legal thinking of our times; as a description of the evolution of law at a time of change; as a challenge for the future. It is a work to be mined by those who want to understand law now and think about where it may be heading.' —Sian Elias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir Kenneth James Keith\u003c\/strong\u003e ONZ KBE KC was born in 1937 and educated at Auckland Grammar School, the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School. He was a faculty member of Victoria University from 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1991, and served in the New Zealand Department of External Affairs during the early 1960s, and as a member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1968 to 1970.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eFrom 1996 to 2003, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, and was subsequently one of the inaugural appointments to the new Supreme Court of New Zealand, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2004. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005, serving a nine-year term from 2006 to 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eIn the 1988 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Kenneth Keith was appointed a Knight-Companion of the Order of the British Empire, for services to law reform and legal education, and in the 2007 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eCover: Kenneth Keith in International Court of Justice robes (oil painting by Marike Bok, 2014)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220295991,"sku":"9781776922192","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Without_Fear_or_Favour_front_cover__97025_2618c46a-f51f-40ec-99c2-325b77dae6af.jpg?v=1752013389"},{"product_id":"this-compulsion-in-us","title":"This Compulsion in Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/this-compulsion-in-us-ebook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web-1748307187363.png?t=1748307187\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"57\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ockham Award for General Nonfiction \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIt’s not beautiful, not at all, when it’s there in front of you, but writing transforms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn her first book of nonfiction, prizewinning author Tina Makereti writes from inside her many intersecting lives as a wahine Māori – teacher, daughter, traveller, parent – and into a past that is as alive and changeful as the present moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eMakereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tūpuna at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in awe of Te Kore, Te Pō and Te Ao Mārama—a universe of potential being, dark and light. These are some of the kaupapa that underpin her work and her way of moving through the world, both enlivened and haunted by a compulsion to write.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIncluded here are frank and moving essays about the wāhine who have shown her many ways of being a Māori woman, the pain and dark humour of living with an alcoholic, a blue boob from breast cancer treatment, and the potential of art to return power to survivors of colonialism. What if we could transform the events that made us who we are? What if there were a way back to the beginning? 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Her fiction sings with their voices; this new book describes where they come from, how they manifest, inspire and protect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘What pervades \u003cem\u003eThis Compulsion In Us \u003c\/em\u003eis the power of imagination, the impact of story, the motivation to grasp, examine, and release. Writing, in itself, is an act of defiance and bravery. Tina has the courage to write what scares her, to put it all out there, carefully, eloquently, and by doing this she makes sense of so much. 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Nyman is fascinated by the ways we insist on artificially replicating what nature has already abundantly provided, and reminds us that we do not sit outside of our environment. This book is urgent and timely, rich and lively.’ —Helen Heath, author of \u003cem\u003eAre Friends Electric?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘This is a book with flashes of humour, a querying of everything, and minute observation. There is a lovely mental toughness, an evolution in the poet herself, in a collection that is absolutely contemporary.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Elizabeth Smither, author of \u003cem\u003eMy American Chair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMikaela Nyman\u003c\/strong\u003e is from the autonomous, demilitarised Åland Islands in Finland and lives in Taranaki. Her climate fiction novel \u003cem\u003eSADO\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2020. Her two poetry collections in Swedish were nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2020 and 2024 respectively. Her second poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eTo get out of a riptide you must move sideways\u003c\/em\u003e (Ellips), connects Taranaki and Finland and was awarded a literary prize in 2024 by the Swedish Literary Society (SLS) in Finland. In 2024, she was the Robert Burns Fellow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover art and photograph: Ellie Field\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220558135,"sku":"9781776922895","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922895_The_Anatomy_of_Sand__25842_a4d7a58d-06ca-4732-9577-e59489c82d34.jpg?v=1752013393"},{"product_id":"surplus-women","title":"Surplus Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/surplus-women-ebook\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web-1748306901832.png?t=1748306902\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"59\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurvival, friendship, love, desire, pain, freedom.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eJess is the only one in her group who hasn’t lost her virginity. Genevieve is being held captive in a dug-out with her gymnastics nemesis from 40 years ago. At night, Jade absorbs catcalls like Mario powering up on mushrooms. From heaven, the Dream Team data-analyses human destinies while worrying about their job security. As Whetū and Sia race to the hospital in the rain, Whetū remembers another night that changed everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eThis is a collection of stories about women in past, present and future Aotearoa. Michelle Duff’s cast of hungry teenage girls, top detectives who forget to buy milk, frustrated archivists, duplicitous real estate agents, and ‘surplus women’ are all as vivid as wafts of Impulse from a backpack in the 90s. These stories move nimbly from realism to comic overdrive, from the outlandish to the simply true, with characters reappearing from new angles. As they meditate on power and patriarchy, love and bad decisions, these stories remind us of the sweet dreams we used to have and how it feels to wake up from them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Duff is an immersive storyteller. Her stories captivate and pull the reader under. . . . And Duff’s nose for a story is utterly compelling. She offers both lively, sophisticated plot and thoughtful mediation on themes that at their core concern strong, complicated women.' —Anna Rankin, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Vibrant, eclectic, sharp as hell. We’re in the presence of a writer who is acutely aware of the way each story whispers to another – especially, crucially, around what girls and women leave chronically unsaid, the surplus silence in our lives.’ —Tracey Slaughter, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Girls in the Red House Are Singing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘The characters are unforgettable. This is a voice I am happy to spend time with, a voice that is offering something new.’ —Tina Makereti, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'Compulsively readable: sharp, funny, harrowing at times, and no holds barred.' —Di Starrenburg, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'A satisfying, surprising collection.' —Laura Borrowdale, \u003cem\u003eTakahē\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Duff\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist and writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She was the winner of the 2023 Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her journalism has appeared in Aotearoa and internationally, including in the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStuff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Zealand Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eMelbourne Age\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover photograph: Tia Ranginui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover design: Johnson Witehira\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220623671,"sku":"9781776922284","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922284_Surplus_Women__76447_90f72e1b-46b2-46bc-8f07-3d89fb2d750e.jpg?v=1752013395"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-brian-turner-thw-classic","title":"Selected Poems: Brian Turner | THW Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/selected-poems-brian-turner-thw-classic-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/MeBooks_for_product_page_on_web.png?v=1751688470\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"66\" style=\"float: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst published in 2019 and now available in paperback, this book was the first to represent the full extent of Brian Turner’s achievement as a poet, from his Commonwealth Poetry Prize-winning debut, \u003cem\u003eLadders of Rain\u003c\/em\u003e, to poems written in 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eOne of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and widely read contemporary poets, Brian Turner was a proud southerner, and the landscapes and skyscapes of the central South Island are among the strongest characteristics of his work. His themes range widely and make striking connections – poems about fathers and sons are also poems about the duties of care we owe to the natural world; love poems open out into metaphysical inquiry; satire keeps close company with political protest. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eTurner’s work is distinguished always by his unmistakable wit and feeling, precision and insight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Beneath the wit, the no-nonsense honesty, the rigorous clarity of sense and the sinewy rhythmic energy of the poems’ surfaces runs the craft of a sophisticated, confident and well-read poet.’ —\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Turner was a major New Zealand writer: for many, the Otago landscape is inextricable from Turner’s descriptions of it. Turner was a poet capable of extracting the multiplicity of that land as well as the nature of its birds, its fish, the various characters that inhabit it.’ —Claire Mabey, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘He understood how to capture Central Otago with sparse and sure language that echoed the place’s immense skies and hills. His poems often feel like proverbs; quiet excavations of larger truths.’ —Ella Borrie, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'His main legacy is his poetry . . . He wrote short, tight lines, every word in its place, lyrical and wise and devoted to the natural world.' —Steve Braunias, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Turner\u003c\/strong\u003e (1944–2025) was born in Dunedin and lived most of his life in Central Otago. His first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eLadders of Rain\u003c\/em\u003e (1978), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and was followed by a number of highly praised poetry collections and award-winning writing in a wide range of genres, including journalism, biography, memoir and sports writing. Later poetry\u003cbr\u003ecollections included\u003cem\u003e Night Fishing\u003c\/em\u003e (2016),\u003cem\u003e Inside Outside\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eJust This\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry in 2010). He was the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2003–05 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry in 2009.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover: Grahame Sydney, \u003cem\u003ePoolburn Hill: to the Hawkduns\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220721975,"sku":"9781776922925","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Brian_Turner_Selected_Poems_THW_Classic__30723_0717403e-f9dc-426d-b563-06b2a291df1b.jpg?v=1752013397"},{"product_id":"sick-power-trip","title":"Sick Power Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/poetry\/sick-power-trip-ebook\" title=\"Sick Power Trip ebook\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/MeBooks_for_product_page_on_web.png?v=1751688470\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"42\" style=\"float: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e stored my plan for world peace\u003cbr\u003esafely in my coat pocket,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eand then I washed the coat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSick Power Trip\u003c\/em\u003e is Erik Kennedy’s most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eKennedy scrutinises the broken social contract and the dangerous actors who seem determined to dominate us, and writes with open eyes about long COVID and living wages, self-medication and sea temperatures. If it feels like we’re stuck in a post-truth moment, Kennedy reminds us that some things remain true and vital: self-care, empathy, and solidarity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'I love Erik's work so much and this new collection is incredible. Can not recommend it enough.' —Pip Adam, \u003cem\u003eBetter Off Read\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #757575; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e'These poems have a very big heart. It's a very clever mix of seriousness, humour, and I would say tenderness as well.' —Airini Beautrais, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'I adore Kennedy’s sharp wit and erudite humour, and his ability to walk the line between optimism and pessimism. This collection is a masterful example of taking back power one poem at a time.' —Chris Tse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003eErik\u003c\/span\u003e Kennedy's manic narratives and twisted comedies square up to power. By turns angry, exasperated, chuckling, despairing, he gives voice to \"the clammy, suffering, sweltry, cynical, burned-out, \/ downhearted, vulnerable people\".' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e—James Brown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eSick Power Trip\u003c\/em\u003e takes a scalpel to the systems of power, capital, and warfare that we live with. Kennedy has an impressive knack for finding the line between didactic and forgiving, striking a note of urgency that is desperately needed in this time of crises. With wry humour and a distinct playfulness, this new collection offers not a balm for the world but the courage to dismantle it.’ —Ash Davida Jane\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErik Kennedy\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two previous books of poems, both with Te Herenga Waka University Press: the Ockham-shortlisted \u003cem\u003eThere’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and \u003cem\u003eAnother Beautiful Day Indoors\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427220820279,"sku":"9781776922901","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922901_Sick_Power_Trip__80566.jpg?v=1752013399"},{"product_id":"nga-pepeha-a-nga-tipuna-the-sayings-of-the-ancestors-paperback","title":"Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/language\/nga-pepeha-a-nga-tipuna-the-sayings-of-the-ancestors-ebook\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" height=\"73\" width=\"173\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/mebooks-logo-for-web.webp?v=1746391636\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eWinner of the Reference and Anthology category of the 2002 Montana NZ Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eKia mau ki te kupu a tou matua. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Hold fast to the words of your father.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ePēpeha are not just proverbs – they include charms, witticisms, figures of speech and boasts. They can be heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature handed down to us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eFirst published in 2001, \u003cem\u003eNgā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of more than 2500 ‘sayings of the ancestors’, gathered by Neil Grove and Tā Hirini Moko Mead over a period of more than twenty years. Through this book, readers reach out to their tīpuna, just as their tīpuna reach out to them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eHe kupu ēnei nā ngā tīpuna i tuku mai ki a tātou o ēnei reanga tangata hei taonga tuku iho. Manaakitia whakamahia. Ka puta mai ngā māramatanga a rātou mā hei arataki, hei tohutohu i a tātou.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero – with only a few words, whakataukī, whakatauāki and pēpeha can add depth and meaning when applied. Like the whakataukī in this collection, this seminal work by Neil Grove and Tā Hirini Moko Mead continues to stand the test of time. Each entry unlocks knowledge systems from our ancestors and this wisdom continues to be just as relevant today. An essential collection for all who engage with te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori but also for those who just need a few words to sum everything up.’ —Prof. Rawinia Higgins (Tūhoe)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e'In a world where many Māori are seeking to comprehend the in-depth wisdom of our tūpuna in order to make sense of our present-day realities, this book remains a staple source of infini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003ete\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003ete\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eachings. The comprehensive collection of kōrero tuku iho provided within this book offers concre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"outlook-search-highlight\" data-markjs=\"true\"\u003ete \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003edescriptions of every aspect relevant to our cultural ways of knowing and being. This collection continues to offers us significant insights that help light our path into our unknown future.' —Dr Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It is rich reading for the variety and poetry of sayings, the cultural philosophy and tribal history they encapsulate, and the relevance of past words to the present . . . for insight into culture and language, \u003cem\u003eNgā Pepeha a ngā Tipuna \u003c\/em\u003einvites general readers and is of immense value to students of Māori studies.' —Jane McRae, \u003cem\u003eNZ Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover design: Tane Morris (Ngāi Tahu, Te Ātiawa)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50728847769911,"sku":"9780864734624","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Nga_Pepeha_reprint_front_cover__71197.jpg?v=1752012036"},{"product_id":"the-social-space-of-the-essay-20032023","title":"The Social Space of the Essay 2003–2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/politics-and-social-issues\/the-social-space-of-the-essay-2003-2023-ebook\" title=\"The Social Space of the Essay ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/MeBooks_for_product_page_on_web.png?v=1751688470\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"47\" style=\"float: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'From the outset, the social space of the essay is involved with the text’s readers to the degree that conversation is implied – more or less intimate, even argumentative. The essay will often have originated in conversation, or the conversations of groups gathered around an event. Its long form may both contain and measure the extended time of face-to-face conversation or imply that extent; in this it will differ from social media, email and instant messages. These forms are often both dynamic and distanced, with the immediate energy of in-the-moment exchanges. The essays collected here, though, hope for the pleasure of extended conversation, both in their content and in the critical participation of their readers.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCelebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Wedde’s third collection of essays follows\u003cem\u003e How to Be Nowhere: Essays and Texts 1971–1994\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaking Ends Meet: Essays \u0026amp; Talks 1992–2004\u003c\/em\u003e, and ranges widely through Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific ocean, and the libraries and museums of the world. Artists considered in depth and often from multiple perspectives include Bill Culbert, Ralph Hotere, Tony Fomison, Judy Millar, Peter Black, Anne Noble, Yuk King Tan, Elizabeth Thomson and Gordon Walters, while writers including Allen Curnow and Russell Haley are remembered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e'A restless and omnivorous intellect . . . A conversation with New York essayist and poetry translator Eliot Weinberger, who was in Wellington for the writers’ festival in 2004, stretches from Atlantis to Baghdad to Mexico to Iceland to a quick digression about who the Aryans really were. Weinberger is all over the place in a brilliant way, and Wedde is keeping up with him.' —Philip Matthews, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Wedde\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, eight novels, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2014, his \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e in 2017, and his novel \u003cem\u003eThe Reed Warbler\u003c\/em\u003e in 2020. Wedde is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011–13 Wedde was New Zealand’s poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers’ Residency in Berlin 2013–14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (poetry). He lives and works in Auckland with his wife, the screenwriter and novelist Donna Malane.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover: Michael Parekōwhai,\u003cem\u003e Yes We Are\u003c\/em\u003e, 2009 – aluminium, automotive paint, neon signs, 6350 x 1720 x 285 mm. As seen in the One Day Sculpture series, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50728882012471,"sku":"9781776921218","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921218_Social_Space_RGB__75879.jpg?v=1752013316"}],"url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/collections\/recent-books.oembed?page=5","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}