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ISBN: 978-1-877441-58-5White City is a collection of short stories set mostly in and around Auckland’s Albert Park, but even those stories that travel far away from the park seem subtly inhabited by its breezes, colours, shadows and sounds.Brown treats his characters with clear-eyed generosity, b...

ISBN 978-1-877441-12-7The drawings that comprise Wall allude to trauma and institutionalisation. They do not form a straightforward narrative or make some simplistic statement. They have the urgency of improvisations, yet they are carefully organised and almost painfully detailed with naked walls a...

Graphic Art by Darren SheehanISBN 978-1-877441-13-4In a neglected corner of Travesty, in an apartment building called the rathouse, five marginals take on the universe. Drunk Len takes a gamble on salvation, but can he find the ticket? Nisa Michelangelo reconstructs his David with a vital differenc...

ISBN 978-1-877441-03-5Medieval Chinese poet Li He lived in the last brief flowering of the T’ang dynasty from 790-816, his evocations of the heavenly and the netherworlds are unique, possibly in the whole of the Chinese canon, and are the source of his honorific title, ‘the demon talented oneâ€...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-45-5‘Never Get Taken to the Second Location.’This book abducts you. It takes you to unfamiliar places. Using the doomed love affair of painter Rita Angus and musician Douglas Lilburn as a backdrop, Bronwyn Lloyd’s first collection of stories is a leap into the surrealist da...

ISBN 978-1-877441-14-1A novel of text-talk, musomania, mix tapes, student bars and library intrigues, The Constant Losers starts with a google search for ‘boykrew fan club’ and ends in a ‘zine war’. The book’s heroes are two students whose strange relationship begins in print and develops...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-51-6Taking the reader from inner-city Auckland to fairy-tale clearings and finally into the burnt hotel itself, these lyrical poems chart the terrain where the ordinary meets the fantastical, a vivid world of “other people’s lives" populated by lovers and rent-boys, sleep-wal...

Issue 48 of brief magazineISSN 1175-9313Occupying a complete issue of Auckland based writing journal brief, Bill Direen’s The Ballad of Rue Belliard celebrates the subtleties of language and the humour of life in a “peripheral” sector of Paris. His inventive use of English is a fu...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-60-8The Waihorotiu Stream ‘Queen Street River’ used to run down the centre of Auckland’s main road before it was first turned into a canal, and then later diverted into a sewer, where it now flows beneath Queen street.The Tales of the Waihorotiu tell the story of another Au...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-17-2Kendrick Smithyman was regarded as one of New Zealand’s most important poets. For decades, though, the uncompromisingly intellectual, relentlessly experimental Smithyman had to endure marginalisation and even ridicule at the hands of conservative editors and critics. Some o...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-62-2Postcard Stories reproduces in full colour 100 remarkable and evocative postcards from around the world, grouped by theme and accompanied by brief narratives that link them into magical stories. A high-quality art production printed on 140gsm Woodstock card, this book is a de...

ISBN 978-1-877441-09-7Gregory O’Brien described Richard von Sturmer’s last published work, Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose, as “a book of almost hallucinogenic clarity". In his new prose collection, On the Eve of Never Departing, von Sturmer shines his clear, poetic light on a number of subjec...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-57-8Moonshine Eggs is the third novel in a trilogy of works based around the whimsical and comedic character of Harry Rejekt. Inseparable from his dog and his inherited crumbling farmhouse, Harry dreams of worldly travel whilst rarely venturing out from the Waikato country town w...

ISBN 978-1-877441-15-8Is writing about staying on the sidelines, or getting involved – marginal observation, or “skyline operations" (Auden)? This book offers a series of takes on the possibility of a truly engaged literature. Not all the conclusions it comes to are entirely pessimistic.Kin...

Photos by Kendrick SmithymanISBN: 978-1-877441-44-8Scott Hamilton’s second book of poetry takes us back to the strange yet strangely familiar territory he began to map in his acclaimed debut. In these poems the tyrannies of linear time, Cartesian logic, and geometric space are overthrown, so that...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-50-9When the British natural philosophers of the 17th century founded modern natural history, they proposed finding a poet to compile a poetic account of everything that existed in nature, very broadly defined. Four hundred years later, the work is ongoing, made modern and rigoro...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-61-5Everything’s Something in Place publishes a selection from the lifetime’s work of editor, critic and poet John Geraets. It includes influential essays first published in the Listener, Landfall, Poetry NZ, the Journal of Literature, as well as other journals and publicatio...

ISBN 978-1-877441-07-3In the third volume of his REM trilogy, after the urban inferno of Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000) and the purgatorial stasis of The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006), Jack Ross explores the closest thing to a paradise his cast of crazies can conceive of, let alone aspire ...

ISBN: 978-1- 877441-52-3Adventurous, curious and moving, Christie’s work braves abstraction and socio-political insights.After Luce Cannon (Titus Books, 2007) and The Facts of Light (Vagabond Press, 2014), Carbon Shapes and Dark Matter is Christie’s third collection of poetry.Time after...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-56-1A series of murders breaks the dusty silence of a small rural town. Butades, the town’s resident artist, is given the job of drawing lines around the bodies. Without motive or suspect, and with the death count mounting, the Police Chief becomes unhinged, and events lead to ...

ISBN: 978-1-877441-47-9Alan Brunton played a crucial role in developing a platform for New Zealand poetry and theatre. Brunton was the founding editor of poetry and arts publication Freed and co-editor of Spleen, he also established with partner Sally Rodwell the experimental theatre group Red Mole...

ISBN 978-1-877441-05-9Jen Crawford’s bad appendix may be the most daring book of poetry published anywhere this year. Crawford often writes about everyday, apparently uncomplicated subjects – a walk down the road, a kiss, a patch of grass with sun on it – but her language is dense and...

Softcover - 240mm x 170mm126pp - 88 colour platesPrinted on 120gsm KeayKolour China WhiteISBN 978-1-877441-20-2Introduction by Scott Hamilton.In the 1990s Diana Halstead broke with the formal abstract paintings she had been exhibiting in the preceding years, and in a rush of work created a remarkab...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-0-6100PPThis book collects six essays in which the late Tongan intellectual ‘I. Futa Helu considers the traditional poetry of his country. As well as guiding readers through the long and intricate history of Tongan verse, the polymathic Helu offers a series of fascinating asid...