2019 has been a brilliant year for AUP with great new books released into the world. But along with that, we've reprinted 10 of our classic books, a record amount for us. This includes poetry classics such as Selina Tusitala Marsh's Tightrope and Dar
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Haare Williams: Words of a Kaumātua launched and tops the chart
It's always a special moment when one of our books does well in the Nielsen New Zealand Bookscan charts, but doubly so when it tops the New Zealand list as Haare Williams: Words of a Kaumātua has done for us this week. Indeed the AUP team f
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Selina Tusitala Marsh's launch poem for Mophead
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference, written and illustrated by Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh, was launched at Unity Books Auckland on 24 October 2019. The following poem was written by Selina to commemorate the occas
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Exceptional women
Helen Rickerby,
author of new experimental poetry collection How to Live, considers woman writers, artists
and thinkers from the past, and the obstacles in their way.‘I think of all the books,
paintings, music, scientific discoveries, philosophy I
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Launch speech by Anna Jackson of new poetry collections by Gregory Kan and Sugar Magnolia Wilson
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,
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