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Ian Wedde
Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Wedde's third collection of essays.
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Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.
Passionate, witty, and erudite, these essays by a radical curator describe how museums approach their sometimes conflicting missions to sponsor scholarship, generate popular appeal, and claim social significance.
This collection of odes is deliberately patterned, but expressed in a contemporary voice. The introductory epode flags the themes of the works to follow, interspersed with two epistles lighter in…
Gives readers five poems that lope along in a rhythmic way exploring the concept of beauty and the nature of language. Here, the poet enables us to see our world…
A poetry collection. It includes the poems that are titled after Wellington businesses and institutions - Tony’s Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of…
Here the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life’s slick surfaces and…
Christopher Hare, one of the world’s top food writers, has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers as ‘The…
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Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture…
Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany.
In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding’s literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon’s Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for…
Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists. In Bill Culbert: Making Light Work, the first substantial book on Culbert, Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions…
A collection of poems pervaded by powerful images of ships, the sea, and voyages of exploration.
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From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70, to…
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. While Wedde has constantly experimented with and pushed…
