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Kia ora koutou

We were glued to our screens last night as we watched the first ever virtual Ockham New Zealand Book Awards ceremony, live on YouTube. And we were over the moon to see the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry go to Helen Rickerby, for her collection How to Live. A very warm congratulations to Helen, and to all the winners and finalists in this competitive lineup – especially to Becky Manawatu, to Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns, and to Shayne Carter. AUP author Anne Kennedy also featured in the shortlist for her collection Moth Hour, and you can view all the finalists reading from their books on the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards YouTube channel. If you missed the live stream last night you can view it there too: bit.ly/ONZBA-YouTube

We are very much looking forward to Alert Level 2 and beyond, and sharing with you all the good books we have been working on.

Noho ora mai
the AUP team
‘This collection demands much of us: to move, to discover, to challenge, to chastise, to entertain, to teach, to dare and to awaken. It talks honestly about masculine/feminine yin/yang, and requires the reader to be and to consider both silence and listening, hearing and speaking. How to Live is a brave collection that doesn’t back down from a societal lesson that, unfortunately, still needs repeating, and often.’ – Ockham NZ Book Awards
Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol. 2 1960–1987
Peter Simpson
The second of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. 

New publication date: 11 June 2020
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The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962
Anthony Byrt
The untold story of how a group of young outsiders reinvented art in early sixties London.

Award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural history and tackles big questions: Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? How did three remarkable young outsiders (Billy Apple, David Hockney and Ann Quin) change British culture? And what was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art?

Publication date: 18 June 2020
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You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956–1986
C. K. Stead
The second volume of memoirs from New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman. Stead tells the tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. At its heart it is an account of a remarkable life among books – of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors.

Publication date: 18 June 2020
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