At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so...

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

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

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

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

Exploring the ethical frameworks and principles upon which governments can and should base their ...

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

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

Nineteen Widows Under Ash

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

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

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

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

English translations of short stories from around the world.

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

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

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

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

A darkly comic thriller set in contemporary Berlin, this novel finds Martin Rumsfield, an interna...

A powerful and moving memoir, this autobiography traces poet Patrick White's family history begin...

Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin ...

In her first collection of stories, Gemma Bowker-Wright leads us into the phases of transition an...

In late 2013, China's new leader President Xi Jinping asked a plenary meeting of the ruling Commu...

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

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

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

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

Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, la...

'Phil Lester's first book, The Vulgar Wasp, was about one of the world's most hated insects. His ...

Renée's three seminal New Zealand plays Wednesday to Come, Pass it On, and Jeannie Once are publi...

Eamonn Marra's debut novel occupies the precarious spaces in which many twenty-somethings find th...

Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look ...

It's 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring thei...

A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard spri...

I've decided to document my life in pictures. It's hard to draw the pole, because of the pole. Be...

A science educator in domestic chaos, fetishises, Scandinavian furniture, and champagne flutes. A...

'Every week we would disinvent something. This week it would be plastic. Next week it would be th...

Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been ...

A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a he...

A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster ...

A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been sto...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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