Elizabeth Smither has won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Award for Night Horse – an honour bestowed on her twice before! Elizabeth Smither has written five novels, five collections of short stories and eighteen poetry collections incl

The following speech by Paula Morris was delivered at the launch of Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by David Hastings and Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman by Alexander Aitken (edited by Alex Calder). Republished with ki

Michael Belgrave has been awarded the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885, which documents the rise and fall of the King Country, an independent state governed by the Māori King where se

The following speech by Gregory O'Brien was delivered at the launch of two poetry collections, He's So MASC by Chris Tse and Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems by Anna Jackson, at the Wellington Writers & Readers Festival.I can’t be the first

We are very sad to lose one of this country’s most extraordinary thinkers and writers, Francis Pound.‘Francis was a towering intellect and a lovely man,’ said Auckland University Press director Sam Elworthy. ‘I rank his book The Invention of New Zeal