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Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensable guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry. With over sixty poets appearing, there's classic work by some of the best-known figures in New Zeala ...
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Exercise Book collects over fifty creative writing exercises used by Bill Manhire and his colleagues, not only at Victoria but throughout New Zealand and around the world. The celebrated writer/teachers who have contributed include Eleanor Catton, Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Perkins ...
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A novel about a New Zealander living in London with his young son and their encounter with Emily, the daughter of a Boston doctor, in a country home in Southern England.
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This is a story centred around "bad choices and those who suffer the consequences". It is "dark and funny" and "fastened hard to the recognisable details of small-town New Zealand life".
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The literary magazine Sport burst onto the scene in 1988 and has come to define a wildly creative generation of New Zealand writers. This collection of nearly two decades of writings showcases authors such as Barbara Anderson, Jenny Bornhold, Nigel Cox, Anne Kennedy, Elizabeth ...
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An emotionally charged comedy of manners - supremely elegant and funny but also with the power to shake the reader's feelings.
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The Webb family seem genetically disposed towards medicine. Don runs a pharmacy, Penny is a doctor and Jamie has long been self-medicating with heroin. When Jamie decides to move back to his native town in New Zealand after a 20-year absence, there are disastrous consequences for ...
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A New Zealand author's first novel. Brett Healey is 30 years old and trying to work out just what are the ties and motivations in his life. Travelling to and from his grandfather's funeral, he reflects on his past, finding patterns as he meets again the people who have meant most ...
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A story of young New Zealanders abroad and the people and places they encounter. They include a father and son in a London squat and a nanny in the American Midwest, and the settings range from the Gravitron at the Wellington Trade Fair to an insect research laboratory in an Engl ...
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The strange journeys across childhood, the disturbances and dreams of adolescence, the half-finished feel of becoming adult - the patterns Wilkins' characters make of their lives rarely match their aspirations. Veterans of their own experience, they try to make sense of the peril ...
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