This book is an inspired, experimental and personal encounter with a brilliant but neglected art form, the painted hiapo of Niue island in central Polynesia. Most known pieces of hiapo (barkcloth or t
'Gabriel Clutch was a thief and a liar but he was right about one thing. He told me he had a great secret in his collection that would shake the literary world to its roots if it ever got out ?' So
Born in 1949, Bluff-based Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand’s best-loved poets. Poeta: Selected and New Poems brings together a definitive selection of her poetry spanning five decades, arrang
This stylish and affordable hardback is an exciting compendium of adventure and nature writing, history, philosophy and literature, from the quirky to the sublime. Aimed at real mountaineers as well a
The University of Otago began as a university in 1869 and was New Zealand's first University. From small beginnings, the university grew into a large institution with local, national and internati
In 1966 Michael Illingworth, whose oil painting Adam and Eve appears on the front cover of this book, was awarded the inaugural Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. For the first time in New Zealand a practic
In this absorbing poetic memoir of her early life, Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand’s major women poets, leads us over the stepping stones of childhood memory, some half submerged, some strong and gl
This third and final volume of Charles Brasch’s compelling private journals covers the years from when he was 48 to his death at 64. Brasch, though very private by temperament, was a reluctant p
This volume of Charles Brasch’s journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to
