Divided into four distinct sections, this collection of poetry draws inspiration from the natural world
while dissecting the concepts of loss, hesitancy, generation, and repetition. Exploring how everything may be turned into words, this intriguing anthology also demonstrates how those ...
In telling the story of John Webster’s long and colorful life for the first time,
this biography also explores the wider transformation of relationships between Maori and Pakeha during the 19th century. In this remarkable biography, Jennifer Ashton uses the ...
This 2-CD set of classsic New Zealand poets reading their own work includes pieces from
James Baxter, Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover. Accompanied by a book of text that reproduces the poems exactly as they are read, brief ...
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most
important artist, Colin McCahon.Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Maori ...
A beautifully illustrated natural history and field guide to New Zealand’s extraordinary dragonflies and damselflies.
Superb flyers with extraordinary vision and startling colours, dragonflies and damselflies are exquisite examples of evolutionary adaptation and a favourite of nature lovers around the ...
Analyzing more than 150 years of recipes and cookbooks, this study chronicles the culinary history
of New Zealand, looking at curious dishes such as boiled calf's head and stewed liver with macaroni, to the more traditional favorites such as homemade ...
From jaunty and self-deprecating to serious and nostalgic, the poems in this collection paint a
vivid portrait of Wellington businesses and institutions. Quietly hilarious, the verse captures the essence of Toyota, Tony’s Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the ...
A kaumatua—an elder of the Maori people—reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from
te ao Maori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand. Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti ...
