"In 1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed. Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, only to be shot by a police sniper during street unrest in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis. Mackay had married into Whanganui high society, and the story has long been the town's dark secret. The outcome of years of digging by historian Paul Diamond, 'Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay' shines a clear light on the vengeful impulses behind the blackmail and Mackay's ruination"--Back cover.
The many bays, coves, and steeply rising hills of the Marlborough Sounds create some of New Zealand's most glorious, but challenging, environments. Maori carved out a living there over hundreds of years, but as European settlers farmed, milled, mined, fished, and chased the tourist dollar they transformed the Sounds. Maori lost their land, language, and way of life. Both groups had to overcome obstacles that ranged from the merely difficult to the nearly impossible, but Maori faced additional systemic legal and economic barriers. History continues to play out here in complex ways--Maori and European, land and sea, boom and bust, locals and tourists. These multiple strands are brought together for the first time in a wide-ranging, engrossing, and richly illustrated account of the Sounds and its resourceful and resilient peoples.
Me kimi ko wai e takaro ana ki runga i te retireti, i te tarere, i te pae piki i runga aha ano i tenei pukupuku papa whakamiharo mo tetahi toronga ki te papatakaro. He pukapuka mama, patai atu, whakahoki mai tona hanga hei hoatu i kupu hou me nga rerenga korero hou ma tetahi tukanga pahekoheko. Ko nga whakaahua rerehua na te kaitango whakaahua rongonui, na Jane Ussher ka whai wahi nga tamariki me o ratou whanau hei korero paki me tuhura i te reo. E ahei hoki ana te tiki i tetahi pukapuka reo rua i te reo Maori me te reo Pakeha. Find out who is playing on the slide, the swing, the climbing frame, and more in a charming, educational boardbook about a visit to the playground. The simple question-and-answer format introduces new words and sentences in an engaging and interactive way. The photographs by renowned New Zealand photographer Jane Ussher provide opportunities for children and their families to tell new stories and explore the Maori language.
The third in the series of popular and handy guides to our urban architecture by the well-known team of writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds. This handy pocket-sized book curates a series of city walks that take in Wellingtons remarkably rich architectural heritage, guiding the reader from Oriental Bay through to Thorndon and many places in between. Its the perfect guide for visitors to Wellington and also for locals who want to know more about their city.
"Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhoodto the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed in to the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman"--Back cover.
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine (established in 1951 by Louis Johnson), rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #56 features 130 new poems--including by this year's featured poet, Wes Lee, and by David Eggleton, Janet Newman, Amber Esau, Elizabeth Morton, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor, Alistair Paterson, essa may ranapiri, Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Iain Britton, Jordan Hamel, Jack Ross, Dominic Hoey, Owen Bullock, Semira Davis, Rata Gordon, Adrienne Jansen, Olivia Macassey, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Kerrin P. Sharpe--and essays and reviews of new poetry collections.
30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders. From the famous - Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chloee Swarbrick - to the less well known, these 30 stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.
"In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881. Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonising world, Påakehåa New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts"--Publisher's website.
"Lobster's tale is the third book in the kåorero series. The kåorero project invites new and exciting collaborations - for two different kinds of artistic intelligence to work away at a shared topic."--Colophon.
New Zealand's war through the lens of those who served. A book of photographs of New Zealand's involvement in the Second World War.
"In 1998, just as South Island iwi Ngåai Tahu was about to sign its Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the government justice of sorts after seven generations of seeking redress a former foundryman stepped into the pivotal role of kaiwhakahaere or chair of Te Råunanga o Ngåai Tahu, the tribal council of Ngåai Tahu, Mark Solomon stood at the head of his iwi at a pivotal moment and can be credited with the astute stewardship of the settlement that has today made Ngåai Tahu a major player in the economy and given it long sought-after self determination for the affairs of its own people. Bold, energetic and visionary, for 18 years Solomon forged a courageous and determined course, bringing a uniquely Måaori approach to a range of issues. Now, in this direct memoir, Tåa Mark reflects on his life, on the people who influenced him, on what it means to lead, and on the future for both Ngåai Tahu and Aotearoa New Zealand."--Publisher information.
In this important book, ten navigators the late Hec Busby, Piripi Evans and Jacko Thatcher from Aotearoa New Zealand; Peia Patai and Tua Pittman from the Cook Islands; and Kālepa Baybayan, Shorty Bertelmann, Nainoa Thompson, `Onohi Paishon and Bruce Blankenfeld from Hawai`i share the challenges and triumphs of traditional wayfinding based on the deep knowledge of legendary navigator Mau Piailug. They also discuss the significance of receiving the title of Pwo (master navigator) from Piailug, and the responsibilities that come with that position. Their stories are intertwined with the renaissance of knowledge and traditions around open-ocean voyaging that are inspiring communities across the Pacific.
"In 1971, Sue Kedgley and other members of Auckland University Women's Liberation carried a coffin into Albert Park to take a stand for women's rights. She has been an activist ever since. She helped bring Germaine Greer to New Zealand in 1972, worked for women's equality at the United Nations, made documentaries and wrote books about women's issues, and was a crusading Green MP. Now, 50 years after that protest, she tells the story of feminism in New Zealand and its intersection with her own remarkable life."--Back cover.
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architecture expert. In this handy pocket guide, brought up to date in 2021 with the inclusion of twenty new buildings, well-known architecture writer John Walsh teams up with architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to offer a self-guided walking tour of 65 significant Auckland buildings, from the Victorian era to the brand new. The sparkling and informative text is accompanied by easy-to-follow maps for each of the five routes. On the bestseller list for many weeks when it was first published in 2019, this informative book is perfect for Aucklanders and visitors to the city alike.
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us--if only we would listen. This collection of essays by artists, activists, ecologists, and advocates discusses the many ways in which humans need trees, and how our future is laced into their roots and their branches.
Foreshadowing our unseemly haste to fight for King and Country in 1914, New Zealanders were enthusiastic supporters of the colonial war between Britainand the Boers when it was declared in 1899. The country welcomed the chance to prove itself and its loyalty to the British Empire on an international stage.--
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, Johanna Emeney seems to say that there is a message in the air--for those who listen with all of the senses.
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton, and Mere Taito, the winning entries in the Poetry New Zealand Prize, essays, and reviews of 25 new poetry books. Compiled in a time of pandemic, these are poems written--in the words of editor Tracey Slaughter--when 'the only line to follow was deeper in, darker down, to poetry. The page was the only safe place our breath could go.'
"Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often gone way out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art-influenced approach to his experiments with landscape and the contested area of appropriation, he's always been brave. Now, he takes on the history of art, starting right back at cave art to discover the key threads of Western art that sit in his DNA as a painter in the twenty-first century. The approach is essential Frizzell: bring everyone along for the ride. It's a fun romp, but despite the humour, it sits on a bedrock of serious scholarship and reverence for the painters of the past. And there's one thing that makes this book different from any other: all the reproductions of significant paintings, from Rubens and Tintoretto to Cezanne and Lichtenstein, are by Frizzell himself, heroically painted over a twelve-month period. Me, According to the History of Art is the art history education you've been missing. Painting tips included""--Publisher's website.
This volume is a candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman, and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with experienced oral historian Deborah Shepard, this book offers insight into the careers of those considered "elders" of New Zealand literature. In addition to writing advice and career ups and downs, the authors share stories about the enabling and symbiotic role of editors and publishers, showing how key industry figures have played a critical role in shaping New Zealand's literary landscape. They address universal themes: the death of parents and loved ones, the good things that come with ageing, the components of a satisfying life, and much more.
For New Zealanders, the First World War was not just a grueling conflict but also the nation's biggest health challenge. Military personnel had to deal with horrific injuries caused by high velocity bullets, artillery fire and chemical weapons. Infectious diseases were a constant and grave threat. In the midst of this, the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic hit both troops overseas and New Zealanders at home. For the first time, this book tells the collective story of how our troops were supported and cared for by dedicated medical teams. It explores the coming of age of New Zealand health services and details such significant figures as Henry Pickerill and Harold Gillies, who rebuilt shattered faces and treated burn victims--in doing becoming the fathers of plastic surgery.
Emigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering, and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated and articulated in art, literature, music, and theater. The art he pioneered and promoted--Maori rock drawings, the drawings of a psychiatric patient, Maori moko and kowhaiwhai, the abstract patterns of geothermal activity in Rotorua--were decisive for many other New Zealand artists, including Gordon Walters. And his example, as an academically trained artist with a good knowledge of modern European art and a commitment to do whatever it took to pursue his artistic projects, was both an inspiring and a cautionary tale. Schoon's is a life less well known now than it deserves to be. This superb, highly illustrated biography by one of New Zealand's best art writers corrects that imbalance and examines Schoon's claims on the development of art and culture in Aotearoa in the 20th century.
Once a small town sited at Te Papaioea, a clearing in the bush that cloaked the Manawatu Plains, Palmerston North has always had big-city aspirations. Critical to its growth was the railway that runs through it, farming, and education. Originally settled by Rangitane, today Palmerston North is home to people from many parts of the world. Why they chose to come to the city, and what they did when they got there, is the subject of this richly illustrated and engaging history.
'"I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?" Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a ripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.
This is a book for our times, a big and bold new general history of Aotearoa New Zealand, which takes the March 2019 Christchurch mosque killings as the starting point for telling a fresh story about New Zealands past and present, and examining who we are, and why. The Prime Minister famously said after the shooting. This is not us. Belgrave asks, who is us? Is the history of this country simply one of colonialism and white supremacy or is it about something so much better? Despite all the missteps and failures, is there something special here that we have all built together?
A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Robert Muldoon and Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. As ambassador to Washington, he helped create warmer relations with the United States. In recent years, he has chaired boards, has been the chancellor of the University of Waikato and marked more than a half-century of marriage to Joan. Never given to orthodoxies, yet staunchly National in his politics, in his still-energetic eighties he remains an impressively brisk progressive thinker. For six months he regularly sat down on Fridays with the writer David Cohen to reflect on his life and times, our nation and the world. Fridays with Jim reveals a quintessential man of the old New Zealand who is fully in sync with the new New Zealand, and with plenty of ideas about where it's all heading.
This year New Zealands National Maritime Museum will be in the thick of the action when the America's Cup defence comes to Auckland. This beautiful book, photographed by Jane Ussher, surveys its collection and explores New Zealand maritime history through 100 fascinating and wide-ranging objects. From shipbuilding tools and Peter Blake's first trophy, to menu cards from the glory days of ocean liners and exquisite model ships, its the perfect book for all who love the sea, boats and ships, and all else that sails on the water.--
In this timely book, New Zealand's best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, shows how, as New Zealand moves into the 2020s, the demographic dividends of the last 70 years are turning into deficits. Our population patterns have been disrupted. More boomers, fewer children, an ever bigger Auckland and declining regions are the new normal. We will need new economic models, new ways of living. Spoonley says: &'It is not a crisis (even if at times it feels like it), but rather something that needs to be understood and responded to. But I fear that policy-makers and politicians are not up to the challenge. That would be a crisis.'
"Grim, Victorian, notorious, for 150 years Mount Eden Prison held both New Zealand's political prisoners and its most infamous criminals. Te Kooti, Rua Kenana, John A. Lee, George Wilder, Tim Shadbolt and Sandra Coney all spent time in its dank cells. Its interior has been the scene of mass riots, daring escapes and hangings"--Back cover.
For over one hundred years the Auckland City Mission has been a flagbearer of the city's compassion towards and support for the poor, the marginalised, and the homeless. Its own story, marked at times by struggle, is colourful and peopled by memorable characters. This lively history by well-known historian Peter Lineham takes you inside a remarkable organisation working at the front lines of a society in which poverty has become entrenched.
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