Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books

The Nationbuilders

Shaping the NZ Nation 1931–84

by Brian Easton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002

This is a collection of linked essays on individuals and companies from 1931 to 1984 who contributed in major ways to building the New Zealand nation. It captures the intertwining of the lives of politicians, their advisers, and those influence them, as well as the ideas and experiences that drove...

Labour's Path to Political Independence

Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900-19

by Barry Gustafson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Labour's Path to Political Independence remains the best introduction to the origins of one of New Zealand's two major political parties. Not only does it trace the birth of the Labour Party, but it sheds light on the political, economic and social history of New Zealand during the years 1900–19....
by Marti Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

From a childhood spent in London's rough East End to a half-century in New Zealand photographing winemakers and artists, children and kuia, Marti Friedlander has lived a life marked by adventure, travel, and its fair share of challenges. It is also a life that has been defined by the art of observation...

The Tudor Style

Poems New and Selected

by Elizabeth Smither
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

One of New Zealand's leading poets, Elizabeth Smither has published many collections and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Her poems are characteristically slim, so the substantial selection of her work gathered in The Tudor Style has a striking effect. As Bill Manhire says, Smither's...
by Anne French
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The poems in All Cretans are Liars are written for friends, lovers, for a small son, for explaining solitude or betrayal – they start out this way but soon take on their own life and walk out to meet us. Anne French sees her poems as small fictions, where intense personal experiences are crafted...
by Anna Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018

There are some poets you travel the routes ofso often you could feel your way in the dark,that turn, that corner, and then the plummettowards the end. What does it give you, after all,to meet in person in a room? A thoughtthe dog doesn't share, when, having knownthe followed route, the stored scent,an...
by William Satchell, Kendrick Smithyman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

First published in 1905, The Toll of the Bush is widely regarded as William Satchell's best work. Set in the Hokianga district in the early twentieth century, it is an engaging portrayal of pioneer farming and trading on that lonely margin between sea and bush, where jealousies and intrigues punctuate...
by Sam Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Halcyon Ghosts presents 13 poems—13 shapes of knowing—from the cinematic reel “The Kid,” splicing stills of the poet's grandmother and Charlie Chaplin, to the re-verse soundings of “Six Reels of Joy,” celebrating the birth of the poet's daughter. The title poem displays a ghostly counterpoint...

Chrome

Poems by Paula Green

by Paula Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2000

Chrome is leading poet Paula Green’s second collection of poems and is a way of coming to terms with some essential relationships in her own life, with her parents, and with poetry. A single sequence, Chrome has four parts named for colors: yellow, red, green and blue. Each part includes thirteen or fourteen 12-line poems.

Steal Away Boy

Selected Poems of David Mitchell

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Structured in seven sections with poems written in the period between 1962 and 2009, this collection showcases the work of iconic New Zealand poet, political activist, and impresario David Mitchell. Literate and amusing, this compilation, which assembles widely scattered poems in one work for the...
by Michele Leggott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Deft word play, allusion, and quotation meet intense images and stirring rhythms in this compendium from one of New Zealand's top poets. The verse in this demanding body of work represents a step forward—it contains a sense of a wider world beyond the pages and enough substance to yield pleasure...
by Ian Wedde
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001

A strong new collection from an important poet, his first in seven years. It draws inspiration from the odes of Horace (and Keats), shows a new reflective and sober mood, but also evokes the rich world of the senses and the pleasures of the moment.
by Kendrick Smithyman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Described as the 'sly old fox of New Zealand verse', Kendrick Smithyman is a major New Zealand poet. In Selected Poems passionate commitment to the craft of language and to a sense of place stamp the 100 poems selected by Peter Simpson. Thick with wry wit, unexpected imagery and astonishing fluency, Selected Poems demonstrates Kendrick Smithyman's skill and achievement.

The Journal Box

The Journals of Writer Elizabeth Smither

by Elizabeth Smither
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996

This work comprises four journals kept at different times since 1975 by the poet Elizabeth Smither. It records a rich life of the mind and of feelings, discussing friends, events, literary and religious ideas, gardens, clothes and more.
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