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Kia ora koutou

Spring is here and we now have our complete 2019 list away to the printer, and it feels like quite an achievement.

There's a busy season of launches and events coming up too, and this weekend some of our 2019 authors will be in sessions at the Going West Festival in Titirangi. We've included a round-up below so you can find them easily.

And we have cause for celebration, with Niki Harré's win of the Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Book Award for The Infinite Game, congratulations Niki!

More details and our new releases below.

Noho ora mai
the AUP team
Niki Harré has won this year’s $10,000 Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Book Award for The Infinite Game. Deeply informed by psychological research and a life of social activism, Niki Harré’s provocative book teaches us how to live and work cooperatively together, for the good of not only ourselves but of our communities and the whole planet.

Awards’ convenor of judges Joan Rosier-Jones says Harré's book is an intelligent, thoughtful, philosophical view of the difference between the finite and the infinite players in the modern world. 'This is a book that will inspire readers to consider our common future particularly in sustainability and ecological context providing for human well-being and to think about what is important to them and use that to inform how they live their lives with less concentration on competition and status and more emphasis on community,' she says.
Moth Hour
Anne Kennedy
In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper.

Come catch me little child
And put me in a jar . . .

Kennedy’s extraordinary poems grapple with the rebellious world of her brother and his friends in the 1970s; with grief and loss; with the arch of time. The poems reach into the threads of the past to build patterns, grasped for a moment and then unravelling in one’s hands.
Always Song in the Water: An Oceanic Sketchbook
Gregory O’Brien
Every spring on Gregory O’Brien’s front lawn, on a ridgetop in Hataitai, an upside-down dinghy blooms with flowering clematis. In this book, O’Brien takes his metaphorical dinghy to the edges of New Zealand – starting with a road trip through Northland and then voyaging out into the Pacific, to lead us into some under-explored territories of the South Pacific imagination.

‘This is my field notebook, my voyaging logbook,’ Gregory O’Brien writes, ‘this is my Schubert played on a barrel organ, my whale survey, my songbook.’
AUP will be launching Gregory O'Brien's Always Song in the Water at Unity Books Wellington, in a joint event with VUP for Jenny Bornholdt's Lost and Somewhere Else. Both books will be launched by Chlöe Swarbrick, MP.
All welcome.

Thursday 19 September, 6pm–7.30pm
Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington
Anne Kennedy will be launching Moth Hour in Auckland and Wellington this month.

Moth Hour Auckland launch
6pm, Tuesday 24 September
The Women’s Bookshop, Ponsonby

Moth Hour Wellington launch
With Lynley Edmeades' Listening In (Otago University Press)
6–7:30pm, Friday 27 September
Unity Books Wellington

ALL WELCOME.
The Going West Opening Night is this Friday 6 September, and there's a full programme of author events, theatre, and of course the Poetry Grand Slam at The Hollywood Avondale on Friday 13 September. Here's a quick round-up of our AUP authors in session, and you can also view the full programme on the Going West website.
Cutting Through the Waters
Gregory O’Brien (pictured) and Bob Harvey in conversation with Elisabeth Vaneveld
9–10am, Sat 7 Sept

Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy
With Michele A'Court, Paul Horan and Phillip Matthews
4–5pm, Sun 8 Sept

The Art of Writing for Art
Wallace Chapman interviews Peter Simpson against the backdrop of Colin McCahon’s epic painting, GATE III.
7–8pm, Thurs 12 Sept
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919–1959
Peter Simpson
The extraordinary first volume of a two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon.
Mophead
Selina Tusitala Marsh
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.
  • How to Live, Helen Rickerby: ‘How to Live’ is a great collection. It bills itself as poetry, but to me it feels like a book of poetry that has no poems. Instead we are constantly pushing the boundary as to what is a poem, what is prose and what is an essay. What isn’t in any doubt is just how enjoyable this all is. – Marcus Hobson, NZ Booklovers
  • Funny As, Philip Matthews and Paul Horan: 'Those many Kiwis with a sense of humour will strike gold in Funny As . . . a truly magnificent work' – Otago Daily Times
  • Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys, Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler: 'This very important book is a pleasure and a treasure. The two highly qualified editors deserve the highest praise' – Graeme Barrow, Bay of Plenty Times
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