Seven Auckland University Press books have made the cut of the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist featuring heavily in the poetry and illustrated non-fiction categories. In the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Awards for Poetry ar

Peter Simpson recalls the moments that began a life-long study of one of New Zealand's most well-known artists, Colin McCahon.I first saw paintings by Colin McCahon in Christchurch more than half a century ago and immediately developed a deep i

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

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