2020/21 Catalogue

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS

My Honest Poem Jess Fiebig ‘These poems are undeniably personal and often deeply at six, my mother’s boyfriend painful: childhood forced his fat hairy hand inside my heart-shaped face neglect, abuse, for eating too many Fruit Bursts alcoholism, physical hurt, depression and we bought a tube of them at BP wrapped individually in pastel wax papers self-harm are their which littered the backseat subject matter. But – like sweet-smelling confetti through linguistic skill his hand tasted and sheer intelligence of salt – Fiebig crafts a a metallic tang of rust lyrical beauty from the hot edge of petrol unpromising material.’ from the pump still lingering on his fingers

My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.

Jess Fiebig is a -based poet whose work has featured in Best New Zealand Poems 2018, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 and 2019, Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau and takahē. She was runner-up in the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.

13 August 2020, 210 x 148 mm, 112 pages Paperback, $24.99

Jess Fiebig AUP New Poets 7 Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae and Claudia Jardine

From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, AUP New Poets 7 takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry.

The collection opens with Rhys Feeney’s passionate take on Rhys Feeney contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. Next, Ria Masae leads us from a fale in Samoa to the pulsing streets of Auckland city in a voice rooted in the spoken word. And finally Claudia Jardine brings the startling images and unlikely facts from the classical world to echo around inner-city Wellington.

We see scars and tattoos, bipedal goat-men and deep-fried bananas, fat-soluble poisons and indestructible pumpkins as each poet’s distinctive vocabulary and sense of rhythm combines in one powerful volume.

Rhys Feeney is a high-school teacher and volunteer mental health worker in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. His poetry has previously Ria Masae appeared in ANNEXE, elsewhere, Mimicry, Sponge, Starling and various zines.

Ria Masae’s work has been in publications such as Landfall, Ika, takahē and Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems. In 2018, Ria became the Going West Poetry Slam champion, and in 2019 she was a recipient of the NZSA Mentor Programme.

Claudia Jardine is a Pākehā/Maltese poet and musician. Her writing has been published in Starling, Mimicry, Landfall, Sport and several zines.

13 August 2020, 224 x 164 mm, 104 pages Paperback, $29.99

Claudia Jardine

Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists ‘Marti’s portraits of Leonard Bell artists were central to her life’s work. She For fifty years, (1928–2016) was one of New “knew” artists – they Zealand’s most important photographers, her work singled out for did what she did: made praise and recognition around the world. Friedlander’s powerful art. Here are people pictures chronicled the country’s social and cultural life from the – some well known, 1960s into the twenty-first century. others less familiar – From painters to potters, film makers to novelists, actors to who were integral to musicians, Marti Friedlander was always deeply engaged with New Zealand’s creative talent. This book, published to coincide with an the imaginative life of exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington, brings Aotearoa during her together those extraordinary people and photographs: Rita Angus time with us.’ and , C. K. Stead and , Neil Finn and Kapka Kassabova, and , and many many more.

Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists chronicles the changing face of the arts in New Zealand while also addressing a central theme in Marti Friedlander’s photography. Featuring more than 250 photographs, many never previously published, the book is an illuminating chronicle of the cultural life of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Leonard Bell has taught art history at the since 1973. He is the author of several major art and art history books, including Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840–1914 (AUP, 1992), Marti Friedlander (AUP, 2009) and most recently, Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980 (AUP, 2017). All three books were finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards. He has also written catalogue essays and chapters in books on the portraiture of artists Gottfried Lindauer and C. F. Goldie and the photographer Frank Hofmann.

27 August 2020, 300 x 240 mm, 336 pages Hardback, $75

Leonard Bell

Far-Flung Rhian Gallagher ‘There is a depth to these poems, but a depth so finely raised with the stringent haul of craft Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains – home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the and refinement. I can past, place and placelessness. think of no more than a From ‘the Kilmog slumping seaward’ to ‘the bracts and the berries handful of New Zealand and the leaves’ of the Mackenzie country; the moth (‘courier of bloom poets, whose work I powder’); the wind that grows like an animal and ‘the great loneliness admire to anything like / of grass’ – Gallagher is in conversation with the natural world. Her a similar degree.’ lyric poems, marked by attentiveness, have an earthy, intuitive music and a linguistic clarity. Vincent O’Sullivan Gallagher moves easily from the ecological and personal concerns of contemporary life to the nineteenth-century Irish migrants and the historic legacy of the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. The multi-voiced, dramatic sequence ‘Seacliff Epistles’ draws on a rich variety of poetic forms: from lyric to prose poem, parable to riddle, monologue to letter poem.

Bill Manhire called Rhian Gallagher’s poetry ‘one of the quiet, astonishing secrets of New Zealand writing’. Far-Flung sees the poet’s lyric exploration broaden considerably in an assured new work.

Rhian Gallagher’s first poetry book Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press, 2003) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Gallagher’s Shift (AUP, 2011) won the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry. In 2018, she held the .

13 August 2020, 198 x 129 mm, 96 pages Paperback, $24.99

Rhian Gallagher

100 Books in Te Reo Māori

The Trust

Haare Williams, , Pānia Papa, Miriama Kamo, Mike Dreaver, Karena Kelly, Jason Witehira Kotahi Rau Pukapuka was launched in October 2019 with an audacious goal of producing 100 great books in te reo Māori.

Our kaupapa has received early support from agencies, iwi entities and corporate and private philanthropy including, including Te Mātāwai, Creative New Zealand, Hoku Foundation, Waikato-Tainui, Kāi Tahu, ANZ Bank, Air New Zealand and the JP & KA Witehira Trust.

Together, we are fortifying the collection of quality reo Māori books available for rangatahi and adult readers in printed form, as e-books and audiobooks, to suit every type of Māori language enthusiast. Kotahi Rau Pukapuka will comprise a diverse array of both original Māori books and outstanding translations of great books from English and other languages.

The kaupapa is founded on the belief that an abundance of quality literature in te reo Māori is a critical support for whānau and communities engaged in reo revitalisation. Feeding the literary appetites of reo Māori speakers will help to nurture generations of future Māori writers.

Kia puāwai te aroha ki te reo mā te rau pukapuka. Mātāmua ko te Kupu! 1 Te haka tēnā! Te wana, taku ihi e, pupuritia! Tā Tīmoti Kāretu

Ko Tā Tīmoti Kāretu tētahi o ngā tohunga reo Māori o te motu – ko ia te kaiarataki i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, i Te Māngai Pāho, i Te Kōhanga Reo tae atu ki Te Panekiretanga o te Reo, i whai rā ki te whakawhanake i ngā uri matatau o ngā iwi o te motu kia matatau kē atu. I te ao haka, he kaitito, he kaihaka, he kaiako, he kaiwhakawā, he kaiārahi, he mātanga hoki ia. I tēnei pukapuka āna, ka whakatakoto a Tā Tīmoti i te whānuitanga o ana wheako e pā ana ki te haka me te waiata – mai i ngā waiata o ngā pakanga o te ao e rua ki te aranga mai o ngā whakataetae kapa haka, mai i te waiata aroha ki te waiata ā-ringa, mai i ā Tā Apirana Ngata titonga ki ā Te Puea Hērangi, mai i te atamira o Te Matatini ki ngā hui o te wā i te marae ātea. Puta noa i te pukapuka, ka horahia e ia ngā kupu o ngā waiata me ngā haka, ka whakamāramahia hoki ngā kaupapa me ngā horopaki mō tēnā, mō tēnā, ka mutu, nō hea ia e peua i tana whakaaro kia Mātāmua ko te Kupu! He mea tuhi te pukapuka nei ki te reo Māori kairangi tonu hei pātaka mō te mātauranga me te reo Māori.

Ko Tā Tīmoti Kāretu QSO, KNZM (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) tētahi o ngā tohunga reo Māori - Ko ia te kaiarataki i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, i Te Māngai Pāho, i Te Kōhanga Reo tae atu ki Te Panekiretanga o te Reo. I te ao haka, he kaitito, he kaihaka, he kaiako, he kaiwhakawā, he kaiārahi, he mātanga hoki ia. He maha ngā waiata me ngā haka kua titoa e ia, waihoki, e hia kē nei ngā pukapuka i whai wāhi atu ai ia hei kaituhi, hei kanohi hōmiromiro, hei kaupapa tonu rānei. I te wā ka noho a Tīmoti hei Tiamana mō ngā whakataetae kapa haka ā-motu, ka puta tana pukapuka, ko Haka: Te tohu o te Whenua Rangatira (Reed, 1993). Kua puta hoki tā rāua ko Te Wharehuia Milroy pukapuka - He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Maori te Tatau ki te Ao (AUP, 2018). Ko tēnei hei whakaihuwaka mō Te Murau o te Tuhi- te whakawhiwhinga reo Māori o Ockham NZ Book Awards i te tau 2019.

November 2020, 210 x 140 mm, 150 pages Tīmoti Kāretu Paperback, $29.99 Sir Tīmoti Kāretu – one of the country’s leading exponents of te TĀ TĪMOTI KĀRETU

reo Māori – shares his extensive Mātāmua ko te Kupu! Ko Tā Tīmoti Kāretu tētahi o ngā tohungaexperience reo Māori in othe artforms of haka te motu – ko ia te kaiarataki i Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori, i Te Māngai Pāho, i Te Kōhangaand Reo waiata tae atu ki– Tefrom Māori songs of the Panekiretanga o Te Reo, i whai rā ki te whakawhanake i ngā Mātāmua two world wars to the rise of kapa uri matatau o ngā iwi o te motu kia matatau kē atu. I te ao haka, he kaitito, he kaihaka, he kaiako,haka he kaiwhakawā, competitions, he from love songs kaiārahi, he mātanga hoki ia. to action songs, from Sir Apirana ko te Kupu! I tēnei pukapuka āna, ka whakatakotoNgata a Tā Tīmotito Te Puea i te Hērangi, and from whānuitanga o ana wheako e pā ana ki teTe haka Matatini me te waiata to contemporary hui – mai i ngā waiata o ngā pakanga o te ao e rua ki te aranga mai o ngā whakataetae kapa haka, mai i onte waiata marae. aroha Throughout ki te the book, waiata ā-ringa, mai i ā Tā Āpirana Ngata titonga ki ā Te Puea he draws on exemplars of Māori Hērangi, mai i te atamira o Te Matatini ki ngā hui o te wā i Tā Tīmoti Kāretu te marae ātea. Puta noa i te pukapuka,song ka horahia and ehaka, ia ngā explaining form and kupu o ngā waiata me ngā haka, ka whakamāramahia hoki ngā kaupapa me ngā horopaki mō tēnā,meanings, mō tēnā, ka mutu,maintaining his stance that nō hea ia e peua i tana whakaaro kia MātāmuaLyric kois teParamount! Kupu!

He mea tuhi te pukapuka nei ki te reo MāoriWritten kairangi in exemplarytonu te reo Māori, hei pātaka mō te mātauranga me te reo Māori. Mātāmua ko te Kupu! will become a taonga of Māori knowledge and language.

Sir Tīmoti Kāretu QSO, KNZM (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) has been a key driving force for literature in te reo Māori as well as Māori language

ISBN 978-1-927277-43-0 educationKairuruku: Auckland for more University than Press sixty years, withWhakaahua: his work Neil Pardingtonleading Design Te Panekiretanga

9 781927 277430 o TePikitia Reo whakaari: (The Hiwirori Institute Maynard of Excellence 1 in the Māori Language) enabling the development of a new cohort of te reo Māori writers and translators.

Sir Tīmoti’s own books are classics in the field and includeHaka: Te Tohu o te Whenua Rangatira (Reed, 1993) and the collaboration in te reo Māori with Wharehuia Milroy, He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao (AUP, 2018), winner of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Te Mūrau o te Tuhi – the Māori Language Award. Sir Tīmoti is also a prolific composer of Māori waiata and haka, involved in all aspects of Māori dance arts, as a tutor, leader, performer, composer, judge, advisor and lifetime member of Te Matatini, the pinnacle of national kapa haka competition. Hare Pota me te 2 Whatu Manapou Tā J.K. Rowling Nā Leon Heketū Blake i whakamāori I te pukapuka tuatahi o ngā tino kōrero mā ngā tamariki ā mohoa nei, ka whakamōhio a Rāna rātou ko Heremaiani, ko Tāmaratoa, ko Ahorangi Makōnara i a Hare me te kaipānui ki te Kuitiki me Tērā- e-Mōhiotia-rā, ki te whāinga o te matarau me te oha mai i mua. I te whakaawenga o te whakawhitia ki te reo Māori e Leon Heketū Blake, ka tīmata te kōrero i konei.

E mōhio nuitia ana a J.K. Rowling hei kaituhi mō ngā pukapuka e whitu o Hare Pota, i whakaputaina rā i te tau 1997 ki te tau 2007. Kua neke atu i te 500 miriona ngā tānga o ngā haerenga mātātoa o Hare rātou ko Rāna, ko Heremaiani, e matatū nei te rongonuitanga, kua neke atu i te waru tekau ngā reo i whakawhitingia ai ngā kōrero, ā, e waru ngā hurihanga hei kiriata inā kē te nui o te mātakihia. I te taha o te terenga o ngā pukapuka o Hare Pota, i tuhi hoki ia i ētahi pukapuka poto e toru hei tāpirihanga ki ērā atu: Te Kuitiki i Roto i ngā Tau me Ngā Kātuarehe me ngā Wāhi e Kitea ai, hei tautoko i a Comic Relief

Image: Leon Heketū Blake me Lumos, tae atu ki Ngā Paki mō Pītara te Kaitito hei tautoko i a Lumos. I mahi tahi a J.K. Rowling rātou ko te kaihanga whakaari, ko Jack Thorne, ko te ringatohu, ko John Tiffany, kia haere tonu ngā kōrero mō Hare mā roto i te whakaari i runga atamira, ko Hare Pota me te Tamaiti kua Kangaia, i tīmata i Rānana i te tau 2016, ā, ināianei kei te ao whānui e whakaaturia ana. I taua tau anō, kātahi ia ka tīmata hei kaituhi kiriata i a Ngā Kātuarehe me ngā Wāhi e Kitea ai, koia nei te tuatahi o tētahi terenga e kitea ai te kaimātai kararehe-tūmatarau, a Nui Karamena, i puta ai nā te pukapuka tāpiri tuatahi. Kua tuhi hoki a J.K. Rowling i tētahi pakimaero takitahi, i a The Casual Vacancy, ā, ko ia te kaituhi o te terenga puka-taihara, o Strike, i raro i tōna ingoa huna, i a Robert Galbraith. Kua hurihia aua pukapuka e rua hei hōtaka pouaka whakaata. E hia nei ngā tohu me ngā whakahōnoretanga kua whiwhi ia, tae atu ki tētahi OBE me tētahi Companion of Honour mō ana mahi ki te ao tuhituhi me te ohaoha. Kei Koterangi rātou ko tana whānau e noho ana.

November 2020, 210 x 140 mm, 332 pages Image: Photography Debra Hurford Paperback, $24.99 Brown © J.K. Rowling 2018 In the first volume of one of the greatest children’s stories of all time,

Hare Pota J.K. ROWLING Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore Nō te huringa o te kōpaki, i tanaand ringa Professor e wiri ana, McGonagall introduce ka kite iho a Hare i tētahi hiri-wākihi waiporoporo e whakaatu ana i tētahi tohu kāwai;Harry he andraiona, the reader to Quidditch and he īkara, he patiha me tētahi nākahiYou-Know-Who, e karapoti to the promise of Hare Pota ana i tētahi pū ‘H’ e rahi ana. magic and the inheritance of the past. Manapou me te Whatu J. me te Whatu Manapou Kāore anō a Hare Pota i paku Now rongo kōreroinspirationally e pā ana ki translated into Hōwata i te taenga haeretanga o ngā reta ki a Mita H. Pota, Te Kāpata i raro i ngā Arapiki, te 4te o te reo Ara Māorio Piriweti. by He Leon mea Heketū Blake, tuhi ki te wai kānapanapa i runga i te kirihipi āhua kōwhai the story starts here. nei, i tere rā te kōhakina e ngā mātua kēkē wetiweti o Hare, e ngā Tūhiri. Heoi, i te huringa tau tekau mā tahi o Hare, ka papā mai tētahi tangata hītawe J.K.ake nei, Rowling a Rūpehu isHākiri, best known as the me ētahi kōrero whakamīharo: heauthor kirimatarau of the a Hare seven Pota, Harry Potter ā, kua whai tūranga ia ki Te Kura Matarau o Hōwata. books, which were published between I te pukapuka tuatahi o ngā tino1997 kōrero and mā ngā 2007. tamariki The ā enduringly mohoa nei, ka whakamōhio a Rāna rātou ko Heremaiani, ko Tāmaratoa, ko Ahorangi Makōnarapopular i a Hare adventuresme te kaipānui of Harry, Ron and ki te Poi Kuitiki me Tērā-e-Mōhiotia-rā,Hermione ki te have whāinga gone o on to sell over te matarau me te oha mai i muwa. I te whakaawenga o te whakawhitia ki te reo Māori e Leon500 Heketū million Blake, copies, ka tīmata been translated te kōrero i konei. into over 80 languages and made into K. Rowling eight blockbuster films. Alongside the Harry Potter series, she also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Te kaiwhakaputa: Auckland University Press Bard, in aid of Lumos. J.K. Rowling Te kaihoahoa: Neil Pardington Design collaboratedTe ringatā-pikitia: withMunro Te playwright Whata Jack 2 Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London in 2016 and is now playing Harry Potter and worldwide. In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter the Philosopher’s with the filmFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander, which was inspired Stone in te reo by the original companion volume. J.K. Rowling has also written a Māori for the standalone novel, The Casual Vacancy, and is the author of the Strike first time! crime series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Both have been adapted for television. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and a Companion of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. She lives in Scotland with her family. Te Ruānuku 3 Nā Paulo Coelho Nā Hēmi Kelly i whakamāori

He pūrākau whakamīharo te pukapuka a Paulo Coelho mō Hanatiāko, mō tētahi taitama hēpara nō Anarūhia e kōingo ana ki te hāereere ki te kimi i ngā kura huna o te ao. I roto i tana haerenga, ka kite ia i ētahi kura tino rerekē nei i tāna i pohewa ai e ea ai tana kōingo. Ka whakaako mai Te Ruānuku i te pūmanawa o te whakarongo ki ō tātou ngākau, o te kite i ngā huarahi, o te ako hoki ki te whakamāori i ngā tohu ka puta mai i te wā o te ora me te akoranga nui katoa o te whai i ō tātou moemoeā.

Nuku atu i te 85 miriona ngā pukapuka kua hokona puta noa i te ao, ā, he nui ake hoki te whakawhitihia o te pukapuka nei ki reo kē i tō ētahi atu pukapuka nā tētahi kaituhi e ora tonu ana. Kua noho mai a Te Ruānuku hei pukapuka e kore nei e herea e te wā, pēnei i te reo Māori e newanewa nei tōna rere i roto i tēnei whakamāoritanga nā Hēmi Kelly.

Hēmi Kelly Image: Rāwhitiroa Photography Nō te tau 1947 i whānau mai ai te kaituhi nō Parīhi, a Paulo Coelho, i Rio de Janeiro. He kaiwhakaari, he kaiwhakatangitangi hoki ia i mua, ā, nō te ekenga ōna ki te toru tekau mā iwa ka arahina ia ki tāna mahi hei kaituhi i tētahi haerenga tapu i te ara o Camino de Santiago. Nā te iti o te hokona o tana pukapuka tuatahi, o The Alchemist, i whakatau ai tana kaiwhakaputa ki te whakarere i te pakimaero nei. Engari i nui ake te paingia o tā Coelho mahi e ngā kaipānui i roto i te wā, ā, nāwai rā ka puta mai hei pukapuka kaha nei te hokona i te ao katoa. Nuku atu i te 230 miriona ngā pukapuka a Paulo Coelho kua hokona puta noa i te ao, ā, nuku atu i te 427 wiki e kitea ana ia i tā te New York Times rārangi o ngā pukapuka e kaha nei te hokona. Huri i te ao, kua whakawhitihia āna pukapuka ki ngā reo e 82, ā, kua whakaputahia i ngā whenua 170. Hei tā Kenzaburō Ōe, hei tā te toa i te Nobel Prize in Literature, ‘Kei te mōhio a Paulo Coelho ki te kura huna o te toiwhitiiho ā-tuhituhi.’

November 2020, 210 x 140 mm, 146 pages Paulo Coelho Paperback, $29.99 Image: Xavier González Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an PAULO COELHO Andalusian shepherd boy, who Te Ruānuku He pūrākau whakamīharo te pukapukayearns a Paulo Coelho to travel mō in search of a worldly Hanatiāko, mō tētahi taitama hēpara nō Anarūhia e kōingo ana ki te hāereere ki te kimi i ngā kuratreasure. huna o te ao. His I roto quest will lead him to i tana haerenga, ka kite ia i ētahi kura tino rerekē nei i tāna i Te Ruānuku riches far different – and far more pohewa ai e ea ai tana kōingo. Ka whakaako mai Te Ruānuku i te pūmanawa o te whakarongo ki ō tātousatisfying ngākau, o te – kite than i he ever imagined. NĀ HĒMI KELLY I WHAKAMĀORI ngā huarahi, o te ako hoki ki te whakamāoriThe Alchemist i ngā tohu ka teaches us about the puta mai i te wā o te ora me te akoranga nui katoa o te whai i ō tātou moemoeā. essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognising opportunity Nuku atu i te 85 miriona ngā pukapuka kua hokona puta noa Paulo Coelho i te ao, ā, he nui ake hoki te whakawhitihiaand o te learning pukapuka nei to read the omens ki reo kē i tō ētahi atu pukapuka nā tētahi kaituhi e ora tonu strewn along life’s path and, most ana. Kua noho mai a Te Ruānuku hei pukapuka e kore nei e herea e te wā, pēnei i te reo Māori e newanewaimportantly, nei tōna rere to follow our dreams. i roto i tēnei whakamāoritanga nā Hēmi Kelly. With over 85 million copies sold around the world and translated into more languages than any other book by a living author, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, now brilliantly translated into te reo Māori by Hēmi Kelly.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho was an actor and rock musician until, at thirty-nine, a pilgrimage on the ISBN 978-1-927277-43-0 CaminoKairuruku: de Auckland Santiago University led Press him to begin Whakaahua: Neil Pardington Design his life as a writer. Slow initial sales 9 781927 277430 Pikitia whakaari: Huriana Kopeke 3 of his second book, The Alchemist, convinced his publisher to drop the novel, but Coelho’s masterpiece grew with readers over time to become a huge global bestseller. Paulo Coelho’s books have now The Alchemist in sold more than 230 million copies worldwide and have been on the te reo Māori for New York Times bestseller list for more than 427 consecutive weeks. the first time! Around the world, they have been translated into 82 languages and published in 170 countries. As Kenzaburō Ōe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, commented, ‘Paulo Coelho knows the secret of literary Alchemy.’ Nōu te Ao, e Hika e! 4 Nā Dr. Seuss Nā Karena Kelly i whakamāori

‘Me mihi ka tika, te toa o te rā! Tūrou, Hawaiki! Tō pai! Wehi nā!’

Topa mai, taka mai, ko ngā piki me ngā heke o te ao o te tangata te aronga nui o tēnei kōrero reka nā te mātanga, nā Dr. Seuss. He kupu akiaki kei roto e maumahara ai te tangata ki ōna painga, e mataara ai ki ngā uauatanga, me te toro mātātoa atu ki te ao e tāwhiri mai ana.

‘He koi koe ā-runga. He kama ā-raro. He kākano koe e kore e ngaro.’

I Nōu te Ao, e Hika e!, kua mau i a Karena Kelly te paki, te toi, te taki me te koi o Seuss, e mōhio whānuitia ana, i tana tārai i te kupu hei reo Māori mō te pakiwaitara rongonui nei.

Nō te tau 1904 a Theodor Seuss Geisel whānau mai ai i Springfield, i Karena Kelly Massachusetts – ko Ted te ingoa i mōhiotia rā e ōna hoa, ko Dr. Seuss Image: Benjamin Hopkinson ki te hia nei miriona tāngata e monoa ana ki āna mahi. Mutu ana tana ako ki te Kāreti o Dartmouth, i New Hampshire, ki te whare wānanga o Oxford hoki, i Ingarangi, ka huri ia ki ngā mahi tuhi pakiwaituhi mō te maheni, ki ngā mahi whakatairanga anō hoki. Ka tere kawea ana tini pūkenga ki te tuhituhi pukapuka mā te tamariki. Nō te tau 1937 tāngia ai tana pukapuka tuatahi And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, ā, nui atu i te ono tekau atu anō ngā pukapuka mā te tamariki kua puta i a ia, ko ētahi o ngā tino pukapuka o te ao, e arohaina nuitia ana e te iti me te rahi – ko The Cat in the Hat (nō te tau 1957), ko How the Grinch Stole Christmas (nō te tau 1957) ko Green Eggs and Ham (nō te tau 1960), me The Lorax (nō te tau 1971). Ko Oh, the Places You’ll Go! tā Seuss kupu ōhākī, i tāngia i te tau i mua i tana matenga, i tōna tau waru tekau mā whitu.

November 2020, 280 x 200 mm, 48 pages Dr. Seuss Hardback, $29.99 ‘Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!’

From soaring high-flyers to lurches and slumps, Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise Oh, the Places You’ll Go! speaks to the ups and downs of life. It encourages us all to remember our strengths, recognise the challenges and grab life with both hands.

‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’

In Nōu te Ao, e Hika e!, Karena Kelly brilliantly captures Seuss’s verbal wit and wisdom, and his trademark rhythm and rhyme, while finding this great story its Māori voice.

Theodor Seuss Geisel – known as Ted to his friends and as Dr. Seuss by his millions of fans – was born the son of a park superintendent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England, he became a magazine Oh, the Places humorist and cartoonist, and an advertising man. He soon turned You’ll Go! in te his many talents to writing children’s books. His first bookAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was published in 1937 and he reo Māori for the went on to publish more than sixty of the most beloved children’s first time! books of all time, from The Cat in the Hat (1957) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) to Green Eggs and Ham (1960) and The Lorax (1971). Published one year before his death at age eighty-seven , Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is Dr. Seuss’s farewell salute.

Billy Apple® Life/Work Christina Barton ‘Christina Barton’s deep and long acquaintance

Based on over a decade of research all over the world and with her subject lends unprecedented access to Apple’s own archive, Billy Apple® Life/Work convincing authority to chronicles an extraordinary sixty-year career and the art scenes that her account; indeed, it have sustained it in London, New York and Auckland. is difficult to imagine This is the first substantial book on the career of Billy Apple (born another writer as Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935), New Zealand’s most internationally competent, informed significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. and motivated enough At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied to fill this major gap with key contemporaries – notably – and staged one in the literature of of the earliest solo exhibitions in the new ‘pop’ art after changing his name, in 1962, to ‘Billy Apple’. In 1964 he moved to New York where postwar art...’ he worked as an art director, developed his art, exhibited extensively Thomas Crow, with leading artists (notably , and others) Rosalie Solow Professor and established one of the first alternative art spaces – ‘Apple’ – which of Modern Art, hosted some of the new ephemeral activities that enlivened the New York University New York scene in the 1970s. Apple’s work is held in permanent collections from the Tate to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Christina Barton is the director of the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi at Victoria University of Wellington, where she has taught art history since 1995. She is a respected art historian, writer and curator who has worked at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including the major Billy Apple retrospective at Auckland Art Gallery in 2015. Her writing has been published widely, and she has contributed as an editor of journals Antic and Reading Room, and volumes including the collected art writings of .

15 October 2020, 240 x 170 mm, 400 pages Hardback, colour illustrations, $75

Christina Barton

Mophead Tu The Queen’s Poem

‘I was immediately Selina Tusitala Marsh obsessed, completely and utterly infatuated. Selina is invited to read a poem for the Queen in Westminster Abbey. Someone at work calls her a ‘sellout’. What will she do? Mophead is an absolute In her bestselling Mophead, and fast talking PI Selina treasure of a book ... Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in When pressed as to Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a what my top book of the difference. year is ... Mophead is In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westminster Abbey. But when someone my go-to pick.’ at work calls her a ‘sellout’, Selina starts doubting herself. Can she Briar Lawry, The Sapling stand with her people who struggled against the Queen . . . and serve [Praise for Mophead] the Queen?

From the sinking islands in the South Seas to the smoggy streets of London, Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem is a hilariously thought- provoking take on colonial histories and one poet’s journey to bridge the divide.

Selina Tusitala Marsh is an Auckland-based Pasifika poet of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland where she is now an associate professor in the English Department, specialising in Pasifika literature. Her first collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. As Commonwealth Poet (2016), she composed and performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey. She was New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2017–2019. In 2019 she was was elected a Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

October 2020, 235 x 180 mm, 96 pages Hardback, colour illustrations, $24.99

Selina Tusitala Marsh MOPHEAD TU In this bold sequel to her award-winning Mophead, Selina is invited to perform for the Queen at Westminster Abbey. But when a colleague calls her a ‘sellout’, Selina starts doubting herself. Can she stand with her people who struggled against the Queen . . . and still serve the Queen? From the sinking islands in the South Seas to the smoggy streets of London, this is a hilariously thought-provoking take on colonial histories and one poet’s journey to bridge the divide.

PRAISE FOR MOPHEAD ‘funny and empowering with magnificent illustrations’ — Hera Lindsay Bird, Newsroom ‘a truly encouraging and rousing story of her extraordinary life’ — Dionne Christian, NZ Herald ‘I was immediately obsessed, completely and utterly infatuated ... Mophead is an absolute treasure of a book’ — Briar Lawry, The Sapling I'd been crowned the I'd been crowned the I'd been crowned the I'd been crowned the I got out my journal.

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He Pukapuka Tātaku i Ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui ‘Kāore kau he A Record of the Life of the Great kaumātua hei rite mō Te Rauparaha Te Rauparaha te mōhio ki te whawhai, me te toa Tamihana Te Rauparaha hoki, me te tino tangata Translated and Edited by Ross Calman ki te atawhai tangata.’ A major figure in nineteenth-century history, Te Rauparaha was — responsible for rearranging the tribal landscape of a large part of ‘There has never the country after leading his tribe Ngāti Toa to migrate to Kapiti been a man equal Island. He is venerated by his own descendants but reviled with equal passion by the descendants of those tribes who were on the to Te Rauparaha in receiving end of his military campaigns in the musket-war era. terms of knowledge of warfare and prowess He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui is a 50,000- word account in te reo Māori of Te Rauparaha’s life, written by his in battle, and in being son Tamihana Te Rauparaha between 1866 and 1869. A pioneering so dedicated to looking work of Māori (and, indeed, indigenous) biography, Tamihana’s after people.’ narrative weaves together the oral accounts of his father and other Tamihana Te Rauparaha kaumātua to produce an extraordinary record of Te Rauparaha and his rapidly changing world.

Editor and translator Ross Calman, a descendant of Te Rauparaha, makes available for the first time this major work of Māori literature in a parallel Māori/English edition.

Tamihana Te Rauparaha (1822–1876) was the son of Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha and Te Ākau of Tūhourangi. Known as Katu in early life, he received a chiefly education and accompanied his father on many of his campaigns. He later became a key figure in the early Anglican Church in New Zealand, and one of a new generation of chiefs to adopt literacy. He was friendly with many of the Pākehā elite, adopted the manners of an English gentleman and became a successful sheep farmer in the Ōtaki district.

12 November 2020, 240 x 170 mm, 368 pages Hardback, $59.99

Ross Calman Karl Maughan Hannah Valentine ‘[I] stood out of the and Gabriella Stead (editors) way over in the corner in a white coat, trying For more than three decades, Karl Maughan has created intricately to concentrate as Karl painted gardenscapes, developing his own visual language to bopped about his explore the forms of nature and the nature of form. enormous glass-topped From local collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa palette, slashing away Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and at his herbaceous the Wallace Arts Trust, to international collections including the Saatchi Collection and the Arts Council Collection, London, Karl borders with his oily Maughan is a truly global name in art. brushes, chatting brightly about the Maughan’s paintings present idyllic yet unsettling enclosed spaces, characterised by their claustrophobic and colourful atmosphere. complicated snobberies Ever faithful to his garden subject, Maughan’s practice continues of the art racket. A to captivate his audiences with contemporary interpretations of an magic moment.’ age-old subject.

From the Foreword This first book on one of New Zealand’s leading living artists by Dick Frizzell features more than 150 beautifully reproduced images of Maughan’s work, while writers and artists from New Zealand and the United Kingdom explore the deeper meanings of Karl Maughan’s painted gardens.

Artist Hannah Valentine and art historian Gabriella Stead are designers and writers at Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland. Contributing writers are New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell; curator, art historian and associate professor Linda Tyler from the University of Auckland; United Kingdom-based editor, writer and artist Phil King; and Wellington-based curator, author and artist Gregory O’Brien.

12 December 2020, 280 x 300 mm, 252 pages Hardback, colour illustrations, $79.99

Karl Maughan

I Am in Bed with You Emma Barnes ‘From the first line of ‘This is a creation myth’, this work is A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. stubbornly brave. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on the Barnes stomps with left. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winter I left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. You can bright boots over the see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissue finally territory of motherhood, making a body. And once I have a body I have a head. And in womanhood, gender, my head are these thoughts. and – unquestionably -- From ‘I am in bed with you’ and timelessly –

Playful and fluid but completely serious, Emma Barnes’s surreal Sigourney Weaver. phantasmagoria I Am in Bed with You leads us through the very Everything is new and a personal worlds of sex, gender and the body. Barnes cracks jokes, little bit disgusting.’ makes us uncomfortable, shows us a little tenderness, leaves a lot Sophie van Waardenberg unsaid and does it all with language that provokes and confounds.

‘I’m a mentally ill, / married, chronically ill, queer woman with two feet underground’, the author reveals. ‘I birth Sigourney Weaver’s android baby’, they tell us next. This collection is personal and fantastical, funny and excruciating. It’s poetry in the process of unravelling most of what you thought you knew.

Emma Barnes studied at the University of Canterbury and lives in Aro Valley, Wellington. Their poetry has been widely published for more than a decade in journals including Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems. They are currently co-editing with Chris Tse an anthology of LGBTQIA+ and takatāpui writing from Aotearoa New Zealand for Auckland University Press.

11 March 2021, 240 x 150 mm, 88 pages Paperback, $24.99

Emma Barnes Barrie Bates and David Hockney, New York, summer 1961, photographer unknown. from The Mirror Steamed Over Love and Pop in London, 1962 by Anthony Byrt 2020 Highlights The Mirror Steamed Over Love and Pop in London, 1962 ‘With a special talent Anthony Byrt for zooming into a milieu, Byrt articulates In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three the wisdoms of extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and historical distance literature: Barrie Bates (Billy Apple) was an ambitious young graphic while transporting the designer from New Zealand , who transformed himself into one of ’s pioneers.. His friend and fellow student David Hockney – young, reader into the local Northern and openly gay – was making his own waves in the London texture of a time and art world. And in the middle of it all was the secretary of the Royal place .’ College’s Painting School – an aspiring young novelist called Ann Quin. Matt Saunders, Taking us back to London’s art scene in the late fifties and early Harvard University sixties, award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural history and tackles big questions: How did these three remarkable young outsiders change British culture? Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? What was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art?

From the Royal College to Coney Island and Madison Avenue, encountering R. D. Laing and Norman Mailer, Shirley Clarke and Larry Rivers, The Mirror Steamed Over is a remarkable journey through a pivotal moment in contemporary culture.

Anthony Byrt is one of New Zealand’s foremost writers on contemporary art, and a regular contributor to Artforum. In 2013, he was Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, and in 2015 was New Zealand’s Reviewer of the Year. His first book, This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art (Auckland University Press, 2016), was a finalist in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

11 June 2020, 234 x 156 mm, 312 pages Paperback with flaps, colour illustrations, $45

Anthony Byrt THE MIRROR OVER STEAMED

In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided THE to reshape contemporary art and literature. The untold story of how a group of young outsiders Barrie Bates (who would become BILLY APPLE in reinvented art in early sixties London. November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic ANTHONY BYRT is one of New Zealand’s designer from New Zealand, who transformed foremost writers on contemporary art, and a himself into one of Pop art’s pioneers. At the regular contributor to Artforum. In 2013, he was ‘With a special talent for zooming into a milieu, Byrt articulates same time, his friend and fellow student DAVID Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of HOCKNEY – young, Northern and openly gay the wisdoms of historical distance while transporting the reader Art, Michigan, and in 2015 was New Zealand’s – was making his own waves in the London art Reviewer of the Year. His first book, This Model into the local texture of time and place.’ world. Bates and Hockney travelled together, World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art bleached their hair together, and, despite being – MATT SAUNDERS, HARRIS K. WESTON (Auckland University Press, 2016), was a finalist two of London’s rising art stars, almost failed art in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF THE HUMANITIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY school together. And in the middle of it all was the secretary of the Royal College’s Painting School – an aspiring young novelist called ANN QUIN. ‘The Mirror Steamed Over is a wonderfully written, affecting Quin ghost-wrote her lover Bates’s dissertation and account of the personalities and layered complexities of life in MIRROR collaborated with him on a manifesto, all the while writing Berg: the experimental novel that would and around the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s, making establish her as one of the British literary scene’s for a distinctive and original contribution to an important most exciting new voices. area of art history. The success of the undertaking rests on remarkable primary research standing behind the many Taking us back to London’s art scene in the late ANTHONY BYRT fifties and early sixties, award-winning writer unexpected observations and insights. There is no equivalent Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural in the literature, and I recommend the book highly.’ history and tackles big questions: Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? How did these three – THOMAS CROW, ROSALIE SOLOW PROFESSOR OF MODERN ART, STEAMED remarkable young outsiders change British culture? NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF THE LONG MARCH OF POP And what was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art?

From the Royal College to Coney Island and OVER Madison Avenue, encountering R. D. LAING

COVER DESIGN: KALEE JACKSON and NORMAN MAILER, SHIRLEY CLARKE and LOVE AND POP IN LONDON, 1962 LARRY RIVERS, The Mirror Steamed Over is a remarkable journey through a pivotal moment in contemporary culture. ANTHONY BYRT

You have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956–1986

C. K. Stead ‘One of Stead’s most endearing qualities is New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman – poet, the way he allows his novelist, critic, activist – C. K. Stead told the story of his first personality to colour twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his prose . . .’ his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a Sydney Morning Herald university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three.

It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and ’70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books – of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors.

From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead’s You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand’s intellectual and cultural history.

C. K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015–17 and has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand.

11 June 2020, 210 x 140 mm, 440 pages Hardback, $49.99

C. K. Stead ‘Peter Simpson’s two- Colin McCahon volume publication on There is Only One Direction Vol. 1 1919–1959 McCahon is the most Is This the Promised Land? Vol. 2 1960–1987 substantial account Peter Simpson ever written of a New

Zealand painter. An extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of His command of a painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. vast range of source Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest material including twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, previously unpublished McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist correspondence, as idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and well as contemporary Europe, McCahon’s work has not been assessed as a whole for thirty-five years. reviews, exhibition catalogues and In this richly illustrated two-volume work, written in an accessible style and published to coincide with the centenary of Colin ephemera is awe- McCahon’s birth, leading McCahon scholar, writer and curator inspiring.’ Peter Simpson chronicles the evolution of McCahon’s work over the artist’s entire forty-five-year career. This will be the definitive work Michael Dunn, Art New Zealand on New Zealand’s leading artist for many years to come.

Peter Simpson is a former associate professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is the author of numerous award- winning books including Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years 1953– 1959 (AUP, 2007) and Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933–1953 (AUP, 2016). He has also curated four significant exhibitions of McCahon’s work. He was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (non-fiction) in 2017.

Vol.1: October 2019, 285 x 235 mm, 360 pages Hardback, colour illustrations, $75

Vol.2: June 2020, 285 x 235 mm, 400 pages Hardback, colour illustrations, $80

Peter Simpson

Gearing Up Leading Your Kiwi Business Into the Future Darl Kolb, David Irving, Deborah Shepherd and Christine Woods

Published a decade ago and reprinted multiple times, the authors’ Changing Gears: How to Take Your Kiwi Business from the Kitchen Table to the Board Room was the first book that enabled Kiwi-sized firms to integrate business-school wisdom into their thinking.

Gearing Up: Leading Your Kiwi Business into the Future is a completely revised and updated primer for owner-manager New Zealand businesses. The book introduces the business basics that ‘Changing Gears is haven’t changed (business models and financial drivers, leadership, an inspirational and team building, strategy and planning), while exploring how practical read. . . . a globalisation and digital transformations are challenging what we thoughtful, practical know about doing business. guide to tackling the Throughout, the authors focus – through real examples – on the management issues of opportunities and challenges faced by the Kiwi men and women how to grow, how to running our owner-operated businesses. lead and how to improve David Irving, Darl Kolb, Deborah Shepherd and Christine Woods management and come from extensive business backgrounds and are now based leadership performance in the Business School of the University of Auckland, where they – Kiwi-style.’ coach owner-managers in the very successful The Icehouse, a collaborative learning environment and growth centre for New Management Magazine Zealand businesses.

9 July 2020, 225 x 160mm, 160 pages Paperback, colour illustrations, $29.99 Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand The Māori Portraits (paperback edition) Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around New Zealand and – commissioned by Māori and Pākehā – captured in paint the images of key Māori figures. For Māori then and now, the faces of tūpuna are full of mana and life. Now this definitive book on Lindauer’s portraits of the ancestors collects that work for New Zealanders.

The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, followed by essays by leading scholars that take us inside Lindauer and his ‘It’s a gorgeous book. world: from his artistic training in Bohemia to his travels around Superlatives pale – it’s New Zealand as Māori and Pākehā commissioned him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with ravishing’ photography; Henry Partridge’s gallery of Lindauer works on Queen Andrew Paul Wood, Street in Auckland where Māori visited to see their ancestors; and NZ Listener the afterlife of the paintings in marae and memory.

Published in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Ngahiraka Mason was born and raised in Te Urewera and was Māori curator at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from 1999 to 2015.

Zara Stanhope is Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art Queensland Art Gallery and has written a number of books, articles and exhibition catalogues. She has an MA from the Courtauld Institute.

September 2020, 310 x 260 mm, 284 pages Paperback, $59.99 Mophead How Your Difference Makes a Difference Selina Tusitala Marsh Book of the Year New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD!

Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets ‘Marsh says she’s Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. always enjoyed working It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the with young people Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . . and wants to do what This is an inspirational graphic memoir, full of wry humour and [Sam] Hunt did for llustrated with wit and verve by the author Mophead tells the true story of a New Zealand woman realising how her difference can her and light the spark make a difference. for brighter futures. Selina Tusitala Marsh is an Auckland-based Pasifika poet of Mophead is bound to Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent. She was do just that — and leave the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland where she is now an associate professor you with a smile.’ in the English Department, specialising in Pasifika literature. Her Dionne Christian first collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Weekend Herald Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. As Commonwealth Poet (2016), she composed and performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey. She was New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2017–2019. In 2019 she was was elected a Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

October 2019, 235 x 180 mm, 88 pages Hardback, colour and b&w illustrations, $24.99 How to Live Helen Rickerby

Winner – Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’

Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us how to live? In her fourth collection of poetry, Helen Rickerby takes readers on a journey into women’s writing, a quest for philosophical answers, and an investigation of poetic form.

The poems in How to Live engage in a conversation with ‘the unsilent women’ – Hipparchia and George Eliot, Ban Zhao and Mary Shelley. They do so in order to explore philosophical and ‘How to Live is a great practical questions: how one could or should live a good life, how collection. It bills to be happy, how to not die, how to live. Rickerby thinks through the ways that poetry can build up and deconstruct a life, how the itself as poetry, but to subtext and layers inherent in poetry can add to the telling of a life me it feels like a book story, and how different perspectives can be incorporated into one of poetry that has no work – the place where poetry meets essay, where fiction meets non-fiction, where biography meets autobiography, where plain- poems. Instead we are speaking meets lyricism, where form pushes against digression. constantly pushing the

Helen Rickerby is a writer, editor and publisher. She has published boundary as to what is a three previous poetry collections, most recently Cinema (Mākaro poem, what is prose and Press, 2014), and her work has appeared in numerous journals what is an essay. What and anthologies, including Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Godwit, 2012). Rickerby was co-managing editor isn’t in any doubt is just of literary journal JAAM from 2005–15 and single-handedly runs how enjoyable this all is.’ Seraph Press, a boutique but increasingly significant publisher of Marcus Hobson New Zealand poetry. NZ Booklovers

August 2019, 224 x 164 mm, 96 pages Paperback, $24.99 C.K. Stead addresses an anti-Vietnam War rally in Myers Park, Auckland, 1968 from You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956–1986 by C. K. Stead Best of the list Te ao Māori

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