New Zealand’s Poet Laureate for 2017–19 is Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh.The Poet Laureate is one of the most prestigious national awards for New Zealand poets, recognising outstanding contributions to New Zealand poetry. Each Laureate is awarded $80,000
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‘Diversity and unity, diversity in unity’: A Speech by Dame Joan Metge
We were delighted to see Dame Joan Metge recieve the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award for non-fiction. Dame Joan is an educator, lecturer and writer, celebrated for her promotion of cross-cultural awareness. She’s also incredibly modest and self-effacing,
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“Cardboard Cathedral” architect wins equivalent of Nobel Prize for architecture
Shigeru Ban, architect of Christchurch’s Transitional (‘Cardboard’) Cathedral, has won the Pritzker Prize. Ban is a world-class architect and expert in disaster-zone building. The new Cathedral is his largest post-disaster structure to date.“The Prit
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Linda Bryder chronicles pioneering hospital
Iconic National Women’s Hospital spent nearly a half-century at the cutting edge of the women’s health and reproduction in New Zealand – natural childbirth and rooming-in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion
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Fabulous feathers, new photographs and cracking text: Birds of New Zealand
Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide, by leading ornithologist Paul Scofield and avian photographer Brent Stephenson, is the definitive introduction to the identification and behaviour of our country’s extraordinary and popular bird life.‘New Z
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