Auckland University Press imprint: 301 books

Between the Lives

Partners in Art

by Deborah Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

This fascinating look at artists and their intimate partners takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores the many aspects of their lives—particularly how the presence of an artistic companion or soul mate impacts the art they produce. Combining the pleasures of gossip with information...

This Model World

Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art

by Anthony Byrt
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

In April 2011, Anthony Byrt was living in Berlin and building a career as a critic, writing about the world of contemporary art for magazines like frieze and Artforum International. Then one day his world turned upside down and Byrt, his wife and their new-born son suddenly found themselves booked...

He Reo Wahine

Maori Women's Voices from the Nineteenth Century

by Lachy Paterson, Angela Wanhalla
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017

During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience...

Na to Hoa Aroha, from Your Dear Friend, Volume 2

The Correspondence of Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50 (Volume II, 1930-32)

by Sir Peter Buck, Sir Apirana Ngata
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The leading historian Keith Sorrenson has collected in three volumes the complete correspondence (174 letters in all) between two distinguished twentieth-century Māori scholars and statesmen, Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). 'The letters confirm that each man was indeed a totara...

He Whiriwhiringa

Selected Readings in Maori

by Bruce Biggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

This volume combines the Maori texts from "Selected Readings in Maori" (3rd ed 1990) and the English translations of those texts, from "Readings from Maori Literature" (1980). The texts and their English translations are published in parallel on facing pages, for ease of comparison. The Maori texts are drawn from various sources.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

In recent decades, New Zealand Maori have made huge efforts to reinvigorate their language (te reo) and the life of tribal meeting places (marae) as the twin cornerstones of Maori identity. Maori television and radio stations have been set up, a Maori Language Commission established, and language...

Maori Oral Tradition

He Korero no te Ao Tawhito

by Jane McRae
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Maori oral tradition is the rich, poetic record of the past handed down by voice over generations through whakapapa, whakatauki, korero and waiata. In genealogies and sayings, histories, stories and songs, Maori tell of ‘te ao tawhito' or the old world: the gods, the migration of the Polynesian...
by Kerry Hines
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

This book is a collection of poetry by 21st-century writer Kerry Hines, alongside images by 19th-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates;...

Dancing with the King

The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885

by Michael Belgrave
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state – a land governed by...
by Chris Tse
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018

This is my blood oath with myself: the onlydead Chinese person I'll write about from now onis me. ‘Punctum'In How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. He's So MASC confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing...
by Janet Charman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Making landfall among the inhabitants of a gritty metropolis, these poems transport the reader from the white coast of New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the shores of another country and another time. Set on the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s, Janet Charman's compelling poetry collection...
by Chris Tse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other east Asian immigrants. Author Chris Tse uses this story—and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later—to reflect on...
by Michele Leggott
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

It's an optical amusement, a punctured surface letting light pour through holes cut out of the picture. Moon, army tents and the windows of houses and St Mary's church glow or flicker with luminance. Between them move women and children as well as soldiers. Steamers, a brig and a schooner ride on...
by Paula Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Moving and uplifting, this compilation of mostly short poems conveys the author's personal battle with breast cancer, from the initial mammogram through biopsy, several operations, radiotherapy treatment, and recovery. The poems express the reality of balancing a challenging, life-threatening disease...
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