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2013 CATALOGUE from Devil’S Henchmen and Newspaper Boys to Friendly Fire and the Howling Wilderness: Turn the Page on Another Year AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS — 2013 CATALOGUE From devil’s henchmen and newspaper boys to friendly fire and the howling wilderness: turn the page on another year. Summer 2013 HOME IN THE HOWLING WILDERNESS: SETTLERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN SOUTHERN NEW ZEALAND Peter Holland During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand’s South Island. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges, stocked farms with sheep and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand’s ecological transformation. In its depth and breadth of research, its stories of rabbiters and ryegrass, Home in the Howling Wilderness is a major new account of Pākehā and the land in New Zealand. Peter Holland is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Otago. In 2008, Holland won the New Zealand Geographical Society’s Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Gold Medal, New Zealand’s highest honour for a geographer. February 2013, 230 x 165 mm, 256 pages, illustrations Paperback, 978 1 86940 739 1, $49.99 4/5 Summer 2013 THE YELLOW BUOY: POEMS 2007–2012 C K Stead C K Stead has always swum through literature, cultures, surroundings – both physical and social – with a deft stroke. Completed in his eightieth year, The Yellow Buoy sees the poet firmly attached to his memories, attuned to his craft and attentive to his world. In sonnets and syllabics, with settings ranging from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Côte d’Azur, these poems urge the reader to stay alert, to pay attention to ‘the poetic moment / so easily missed, / so quickly lost’. From his green enclave and ‘avid for copy’, this poet is singing still – but also considering the acceptance of silence. C K Stead has published more than forty books and received numerous prizes and honours recognising his contribution to literature, including the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and a Montana New Zealand Book Award for his Collected Poems in 2009. He received our highest award, the Order of New Zealand, in 2007. mid-February 2013, 224 x 164 mm, 144 pages Paperback w/ flaps, 978 1 86940 735 3, $27.99, world rights except UK & Europe 6/7 Autumn 2013 EXTRA! EXTRA! HOW THE PEOPLE MADE THE NEWS David Hastings Rowing on the Waitematā to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys’ cries of ‘Extra! Extra!’ Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pā: the newspaper wars of nineteenth- century Auckland were life or death struggles – with the odds heavily in favour of death. Extra! Extra! tells the story of the newspapers, the editors, reporters and owners who made them, and the readers who determined what was news and which papers would live or die. David Hastings is the author of Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships (Auckland University Press, 2006). He was until recently the editor of Auckland’s Weekend Herald. March 2013, 210 x 142 mm, 296 pages, illustrations Paperback, 978 1 86940 738 4, $45 8/9 Autumn 2013 PATCHED: THE HISTORY OF GANGS IN NEW ZEALAND Jarrod Gilbert From ‘bikie’ gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story through the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of the Hells Angels and other motorcycle clubs, the growth of Polynesian street gangs in the 1970s and the shifts towards organised crime over the past ten years. Throughout, Gilbert brings us the gang members, police and politicians in their own gritty and gripping words. Violent and sometimes horrifying, this book explores a tough but revealing facet of New Zealand life. Jarrod Gilbert spent ten years with New Zealand gangs researching this book. He received a University of Canterbury Doctoral Scholarship and a C Wright Mills Award, earning his PhD in 2010. Gilbert lectures at the University of Canterbury and is frequently sought by the media to comment on gangs. mid-March 2013, 230 x 165 mm, 384 pages, colour and b/w illustrations Paperback, 978 1 86940 729 2, $49.99 10/11 Summer 2013 12/13 Autumn 2013 THE BLUE COAT Elizabeth Smither A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. And a bee released – with recourse to a letter from the Inland Revenue Department. Whimsical and tender, this latest collection demonstrates Elizabeth Smither’s talent for illuminating the poetry in the everyday – an out-of-season daffodil, a chipped Limoges plate. She is a master of the unfolding poem, in lines that take you from a single image to the cusp of something larger. At times meditative, at times playful, even subversive, this collection impresses with its sure words, deft touch and polished harmony. Distinguished writer Elizabeth Smither was the 2001– 2003 Te Mata Poet Laureate. In 2004 she was awarded an honorary DLitt from the University of Auckland for her contribution to literature and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. April 2013, 210 x 148 mm, 80 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 736 0, $24.99 14/15 Summer 2013 How to release a bee tHe eye is badly designed Take a glass tumbler and hold it The closed eye is gone against the window and over the body of under the lid like the moon the bumblebee which is flailing and buzzing sliding under the sea. with a drone of despair rising ever higher. Open it and it slides down At first the wailing song continues close to like someone sliding down the glass but there is a chamber the bee the balustrade of a stair. will soon, with a little shake, descend to. Over the mouth of the tumbler quickly slip It makes thinking odd that the slide must come a letter from the Inland Revenue Department before the look or something equally importunate and official then, with your palm firmly pressed and how can it be wise over the letter, push open the window to disappear inside your own head leaving a blank screen? with your free hand to release the bee whose singing will instantly cease. Now The afternoon doze, the night’s sleep, turn on the concert programme and write: I am no longer here out soars the high C of Allegri’s Miserere. and vacate the scene. Slip away and slide back, how quickly we land back at the scene, on our feet. 8 9 16/17 Autumn 2013 HIS OWN STEAM: THE WORK OF BARRY BRICKELL David Craig & Gregory O’Brien, with new photography by Haruhiko Sameshima Potter extraordinaire, conservationist, railway enthusiast and iconoclast Barry Brickell is one of New Zealand’s most important ceramicists. A leading figure in the New Zealand pottery movement, for more than fifty years Brickell has shaped pots and sculptures that pulse with a humour, exuberance and eroticism rare in New Zealand craft or art. In essays by David Craig and Gregory O’Brien and with newly commissioned photographs, His Own Steam charts the ‘animated and vernacular’ body of work by this unique New Zealand thinker and craftsman. David Craig is a sociologist at the University of Otago. Gregory O’Brien won the 2012 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Haruhiko Sameshima is an award-winning freelance and art photographer. Includes a foreword by Hamish Keith. May 2013, 248 x 200 mm, 232 pages, colour illustrations Hardback, 978 1 86940 763 6, $65 In association with His Own Steam: A Barry Brickell Survey, curated by Emma Bugden and David Craig, The Dowse Art Museum, 4 May 2013 18/19 Summer 2013 20/21 Autumn 2013 THE LIFEGUARD: POEMS 2008–2013 Ian Wedde The Lifeguard, Ian Wedde’s laureate collection, shows the poet at his thoughtful, surprising best, building ‘these lattices and / filigrees of words through which / the light slips, where the shadow / stands up, and we remember’. Opening with a major new series, ‘The Lifeguard’, and finishing with a second long sequence, ‘Shadow Stands Up’, in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observed from a window-seat in Auckland’s Link bus, the volume collects five years of Wedde’s poetry. In poems that are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humour, The Lifeguard stays on the lookout for ‘arms upraised / where the surf breaks against its own backwash’. Ian Wedde, ONZM, is New Zealand’s current poet laureate. He was the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1972, the Victoria University Writing Fellow in 1984, the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton in 2005 and the University of Auckland Michael King Writer in Residence in 2009. May 2013, 228 x 148 mm, 96 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 769 8, $27.99 22/23 Autumn 2013 FRIENDLY FIRE: NUCLEAR POLITICS AND THE COLLAPSE OF ANZUS, 1984–1987 Gerald Hensley In 1984, the newly elected Labour Government’s anti- nuclear policy collided with a United States foreign policy based on nuclear deterrence. After three years of ship visits denied, angry meetings, fraught diplomacy and freewheeling press conferences, this outbreak of ‘friendly fire’ led to the unravelling of the ANZUS military alliance, established in 1951. Based on previously classified government records in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, interviews with key protagonists from throughout the world, and the author’s own involvement in events, Friendly Fire tells the inside story of a dramatic confrontation.
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