Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War by Chris Bourke was awarded the 2019 IASPM-ANZ Rebecca Coyle Prize.The Rebecca Coyle Prize is awarded to the best paper on popular music in the Australia-New Zealand region in a
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Lydia Wevers' launch speech of Roger Blackley's Galleries of Maoriland
Literary critic and historian, Lydia Wevers, launched Roger Blackley's new book Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910.Most people here will have been in Roger’s office, that twilight zone where
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Dame Anne Salmond shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Professor Dame Anne Salmond has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan prize.The Nayef Al Rodhan Prize is awarded by the British Academy for "an outstanding contribution to global cultural understan
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Elizabeth Smither wins the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Poetry Award
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
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Paula Morris on Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac and Gallipoli to the Somme
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
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