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• Introduction--
• Selections from the following poets: Adams, Adcock, Allan, Arvidson, Barr, Baugham, Baxter, Bethel, Beyer, Bland, Bornholdt, Bracken, Brasch, Brunton, Campbell A, Campbell M, Challis, Charman, Cochrane, Curnow A, Curnow W, Dallas, Davis, Dickson, Duggan E, Duggan M, Edmond L, Edmond M, Eggleston, Eggleton, Ensing, Fairburn, Farrell, Fitzgerald, Frame, French, Gilbert, Glover, Hall, Harlow, Hawken, Henderson, Hulme, Hunt, Hyde, Ireland, Jackson, Johnson, Johnston, Joseph, Kemp, Kidman, Kirkland, Leggott, Lindsay, Lonie, Lye, Male, Manhire, Mansfield, Mason, McAlpine, MacKay, McQueen, Mitchell, Montgomery, Nannestad, Newton, Norcliffe, O'Brien, O'Sullivan, Olds, Oliver, Orr, Orsman, Paterson, Paul, Potiki, Rawlinson, Reeves, Riach, Sharp, Sinclair, Smither, Smithyman, Spear, Stanley, Stead, Sturm, Sullivan, Taylor, Tregear, Turner, Tuwhare, von Sturmer, Wall, Wedde, Wendt, Wilkins, Wright
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index of first lines
• Index of titles.
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An illustrated history of New Zealand, from the settlement of Polynesians to modern times, which also looks at the country's people and politics. This edition includes a chapter by Dr Jack Vowles which covers the 1990s.
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Spanning more than a century of verse-writing, this comprehensive anthology reveals the richness, variety, and range of styles to be found in the body of New Zealand poetry in English. Established figures such as Curnow, Baxter and Tuwhare are given strong selections - previously neglected figures such as Jessie Mackay are rescued from obscurity - while contemporary poets are generously represented. With an eye to both fairness and range, the editors have compiled a collection of New Zealand poetry remarkable as much for its diversity of poetic forms as its wealth of voices.
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• From the land and the people. The land and the people (I)
• Pipikariti
• Waianakarua
• The land and the people (III)
• Crossing the straits
• From disputed ground. Forerunners
• The islands (2)
• A view of Rangitoto
• Otago landscapes
• Great sea
• Soldier in reverie
• In memory of Robin Hyde 1906-39
• From the estate. Blueskin Bay
• In memory of Willi Fels (1858-1946)
• The ruins
• Oreti Beach
• To J.B. at forty
• Letter from Thurlby Domain
• Autumn, Thurlby Domain
• Self to self
• Fuchsia excorticata
• Rest on the flight into Egypt
• Rain over Mitimiti Mountains
• From the estate
• From ambulando. Ambulando
• From Ben Rudd
• From in your presence
• Seventeen April
• By that Sea
• Cry Mercy
• From not far off. A closed book
• Lady engine
• Ode in grey
• Man missing
• Open the heart
• Signals
• At pistol point
• Bonnet and plume
• From Chantecler
• From home ground. Shoriken
• Semblances
• Eternal questions
• World without end
• 'If every street'
• From home ground
• From last poems. 'Here too the leaf-dark forest bird'
• From night cries, Wakari Hospital
• Tempora Mutantur
• Fabled city of Agape
• Watch-dog
• A word to Peter Olds
• Winter Anemones
• From 'back from death'
• The clear.

Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was the founder and first editor of "Landfall," New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas. Born in Dunedin, he grew up to be at home in the literature, art, and architecture of Europe, but returned to devote his life to the arts in his own country--as editor, critic, collector, and patron. Brasch's vocation, however, was to be a poet. As he said in his memoir "Indirections," in writing poems he "discovered New Zealand . . . because New Zealand lived in me as no other country could live, part of myself as I was part of it, the world I breathed and wore from birth, my seeing and my language." This selection of Brasch's poetry shows his journey of discovery as he learned by reading poets such as Rilke, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Graves to find his own voice as "a citizen of the English language."

A first novel about a young academic who undertakes to write the biography of a major literary figure: the moody, complex old man, Frank Finnigan.
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This text grew out of the American author's attempts to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral landscape to that of the USA. Through an idiosyncratic selection of contemporary novels and films, Schafer opens up a complex and compelling world. The book explores the work of internationally celebrated writers such as Witi Ihimaera, Fiona Kidman, Ronald Morrison and Janet Frame, and the emerging New Zealand film industry and the handful of directors such as Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Vincent Ward and Geoff Murphy, who have created a vital cinema renaissance since the 1970s.
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The literary magazine Sport burst onto the scene in 1988 with a first issue featuring outstanding writing by a group of new writers who would go on to be some of the biggest names in New Zealand literature, including Elizabeth Knox, Jenny Bornholdt, Barbara Anderson, Anne Kennedy, Damien Wilkins, Nigel Cox. Sport 1 also featured established stars like Bill Manhire, Keri Hulme and Vincent O'Sullivan. Sport has gone on to publish an invigorating list of celebrated writers and new discoveries; Emily Perkins and Catherine Chidgey are just two writers who first appeared in print in Sport's pages. Great Sporting Moments is a little different from a conventional 'best of'. Greatest hits like Emily Perkins' 'Not Her Real Name' and Bill Manhire's 'My Sunshine' are here. So are hard to find gems like an autobiographical essay by Owen Marshall and a story of an infernal encounter in Venice by Elizabeth Knox. And true to Sport's mission, so is an exciting collection of stories, poems and essays by the yet-to-be-celebrated. Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988-2004 defines the most exciting and creative era in New Zealand's literary history. It is also an entertaining and unpredictable reading experience that provides intriguing clues to what might happen next.
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