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We reckon anyone interested in pottery, conservation, narrow-gauge railways or home-grown tourism should get themselves down to Barry Brickell’s kingdom at Driving Creek, just out of Coromandel township. But for those who can’t make it, our forthcoming His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell is crammed with new and old photographs of Barry, the railway and the pottery.
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And a touring exhibition originated by The Dowse Art Museum will offer a chance to see Barry’s fatsos and thinsos, spiromorphs and domesticware in person. Emma Bugden, co-curator of the exhibition with David Craig (also co-author of the book), has been blogging about the book here and here. |
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We have books coming out in the next HarperCollins releases:
February 14: The Yellow Buoy,
C. K. Stead, 9781869407353
March 8: Extra! Extra!, David Hastings, 9781869407384
March 22: Patched, Jarrod Gilbert, 9781869407292
Reprints at press, stock arriving shortly:
The Complete English-Māori Dictionary, Bruce Biggs, 9781869400576
Tigers at Awhitu, Sarah Broom, 9781869404574
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Reprinted titles now in stock:
Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory, Poia Rewi, 9781869404635
Star Waka, Robert Sullivan, 9781869402136 |
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First up for 2013: Home in the Howling Wilderness which, said Kathryn Ryan on ‘Nine to Noon’, ‘has captured the harsh struggles as well as some of the romance of European settlers carving out a backbreaking living in the untamed landscape of the South Island.’ Hear her full extended interview with author Peter Holland here.
The next title out of the blocks, will be an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from C. K. Stead, all written since his award-winning Collected Poems was published. The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012 will be available mid-month and launched on 20 February at Arcadia Bookshop. |
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14 February, 6pm, Dunedin: Rhian Gallagher (Shift) guest stars at Poetry Prelude. Free event; fourth floor, Dunedin City Library. Reservations essential: (03) 474 3690; library@dcc.govt.nz.
20 February 2013, 6–7.30pm, Auckland: C. K. Stead launches The Yellow Buoy at Arcadia Bookshop, 26 Osborne St, Newmarket. Bookings essential: (09) 522-5211; hello@arcadiabookshop.co.nz.
March is New Zealand Book Month (NZBM). Mark your diaries now for our events in partnership with Auckland City Libraries:
14 March, 5.30–7pm, Auckland: Launch of Extra! Extra!: How People made the News. Author David Hastings tells Iain Sharp why ‘no trick was too dirty and no insult was too scurrilous’ to win Auckland's early newspaper wars. Whare Wananga, Auckland Central Library, Lorne St. Refreshments at 5.30pm.
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27 March, all day, Auckland: Call in during the day to hear readings from The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Join us on the second floor at 5pm for a glass of wine and a session with Auckland authors featured in the book of books. Whare Wananga, Auckland Central Library, Lorne St. |
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We came back in the new year to a deluge of reviews of The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Along with the raging debates, there are many guesses about the stats, so we’ve prepared a handy By the Numbers to assist readers.
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Even the Australians are sitting up and taking notice: ‘... the maligned editors are astute guides to the material they have selected,’ says The Australian. ‘Attentive readers will ... happen on authors of originality, rough and polished distinction, whose presence should ensure that for many reading households in Australia, this Anthology of New Zealand Literature is a vital and much used possession.’
– ‘[A]ffords the Australian reader a rich and unique perspective on a literary tradition that has much in common with our own.’ – The West Australian Today
Kiwi comment continues:
– ‘Readers are advised to concentrate on what is here rather than what isn’t. This book is a landmark in many ways and, yes, indispensable.’ – North & South
– ‘Sturdily bound and nicely printed, made up of well-chosen imaginatively arranged texts covering something approaching the full range of New Zealand literature, accompanied by brief, suggestive introductions to the whole and to each historical section...’ – Lawrence Jones, ODT |
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New Zealand's London by Felicity Barnes is gaining attention from historians and general readers alike.
‘There is much to like in a book that is unafraid of combining chapters on the mass marketing of New Zealand lamb in 1920s and 1930s London with New Zealand soldiers on leave from World War I experiencing the British metropolis, a mecca within the Empire, for the first time.’ – Ian Conrich, NZ Listener
‘Barnes has vital things to say about our continued links with London, and Britain, despite our attempts from at least the 1930s to develop a homegrown perspective in art, music, literature and other aspects of culture.’ – David Verran, NZ Legacy
‘This study helped me to understand why I had “Home” — it wasn't a simple case of false nostalgia, it was a part of Anglo-Australia’s very complex and very hierarchical sorting of the world.’ – Gillian Pollack, Biblio Buffet |
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