Distinguished art historian and University of Auckland graduate Roger Allan Blackley died in Wellington on 15 May 2019. His was a national and international reputation built on a substantial body of publications and exhibitions which made him a speci

Te Mūrau o te Tuhi, a discretionary Māori Language Award, was presented at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 for the landmark work He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao by pioneering language and tikanga academics Sir Tīmoti Kāret

Gregory Kan – Under GlassThis is a book you can read like a novel or inhabit like a dream, and remember afterwards with that sense of resonance dreams give you.Like Greg’s first collection, This Paper Boat, this collection is intricately structured,

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

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