An excavation of loss, in four parts, Lost and Gone Away also plumbs the ability of literature to contain, refresh and explore.
The story of one historian, and a country, awakening to New Zealand's past.
A complex, moving and ambitious poetic engagement with the death of a brother.
A moving account in poetry of one woman’s pathway through violence and addiction.
This is a study of the Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli, who spent the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Australia and New Zealand and is best known as a teacher of Frances Hodgkins.
Anne Kennedy's first book of poems explores the strains of parenthood - its anxieties, fatigue and exasperation - the contemporary experience of women, and the redeeming power of love in the face of adversity. The poems' setting is the domestic life of a family of four.
In a virtuoso performance, C K Stead wonderfully illuminates 23 years of his time and his place.
In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ‘poetry has a place among other bodies’, but also in enclosed... Læs mere
In the seven long-ish poems of her new collection, multi-talented writer Anne Kennedy explores past and present, here and there, north and south, earth and paradise, hello and goodbye.
In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori... Læs mere
First published in 1986, James Belich's groundbreaking book transformed New Zealanders' understanding of the "bitter and bloody... Læs mere