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Three new books by three VUP authors get an art gallery outing
We warmly invite you to a reading from three new books by three celebrated VUP writers. The internet of things, new poetry by Kate Camp Some Things to Place in a Coffin, new poetry by Bill Manhire...
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On reading Bill Manhire’s Tell Me My Name
The road goes by the house the wind sings in the tree we sing the travelling worlds we sing quietly (we sing quietly) from ‘1’ I have never learned to meditate but running on the beach is a...
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Poetry Shelf interviews Bill Manhire – I get great pleasure from a poem when...
Photo Credit: Grant Maiden ‘Did you all survive? On that first day of school, I mostly remember being terrified: the dark interior, the children in rows at their separate desks, and I was now to be...
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Hats off to The Ockham NZ Book Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners, commiserations to those who missed out and hats off to Victoria University Press for an extraordinary showing. VUP is a strong supporter of local writing, publishing...
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Paekākāriki Launch: The Ski Flier by Maria McMillan
You are warmly invited to the launch of The Ski Flier by Maria McMillan 4–6pm on Saturday 17 June at St Peter’s Hall, Beach Road Paekākāriki All welcome. About The Ski Flier Vimeo page
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Poets on Tour: Airini Beautrais and Maria McMillan
As Rick Stein would say, we need more of this! Such a very good idea. From Maria and Airini: ‘(Our portraits are by the wondrous Sarah Laing) Airini and Maria are going on tour in July! Like rock...
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from Landfall Online: Helen Lehndorf reviews Hannah Mettner and Kate Camp
Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner (Victoria University Press, 2017), 91 pp., $25; The Internet of Things by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press, 2017), 61 pp., $25 One quality I...
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Flow: Whanganui River Poems – Airini Beautrais’s poetry launch
Nau mai, haere mai. Come and help celebrate the launch of Airini Beautrais’s new collection, Flow: Whanganui River Poems. Featuring stories from the catchment, river and town. Shipwrecks, floods,...
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Louise Wallace & guests to launch her new collection August 10th
Sad to miss this event! Glad I get to read to the book! Book launch for BAD THINGS: a new book of poems by Louise Wallace. With readings from Lynley Edmeades, Bill Manhire, Tayi Tibble and Chris...
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Winter Poetry Season: Hannah Mettner off-piste
My children are abducted by 17th-century French courtesans In the rose garden near the big house where somebody famous was either born, or not, all the ladies spread their pinks out in the sun....
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VUP launches Kirsten McDougall’s Tess
You are warmly invited to the launch of Tess by Kirsten McDougall on Tuesday 15 August, 5.30pm–7.00pm at Meow, 9 Edward St, Te Aro Cash bar Books will be for sale courtesy of Unity Books $25, p/b...
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Louise Wallace launches Bad Things and is at an excellent Writers on Mondays...
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of Bad Things by Louise Wallace With readings from Lynley Edmeades, Bill Manhire, Tayi Tibble and Chris Tse. All welcome. 6pm–7.30pm on...
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Poetry Shelf Winter Season: Louise Wallace off-piste
Reminders for December cut dig gather heel in lift protect Author’s note: The words and title of this poem...
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Flow: Whanganui River Poems – Paula Green in conversation with Airini Beautrais
Flow: Whanganui River Poems, Airini Beautrais, Victoria University Press, 2017 Airini grew up in Auckland and Whanganui, studied both ecological science and creative writing at Victoria University...
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James Brown launching new collection
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of James Brown’s brand new poetry collection Floods Another Chamber on Wednesday 4 October, 6pm–7.30pm at The Guest Room, Southern Cross...
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Louise Wallace’s Bad Things – There is a freshness and a daring at work here
Bad Things, Louise Wallace, Victoria University Press, 2017 Some poetry collections depend upon a thread of similarity; connective subject matter, recurring motifs, a cohesion of form, tone and...
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VUP Launch – Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature...
Victoria University Press invite you to the launch of Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945 by John Newton on Wednesday 11 October, 5.45pm–7.15pm at the Stout Research...
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A poem from James Brown’s dazzling Floods Another Chamber and Gregory...
Postmodernism Explained You’re dreaming. In the dream you fall asleep and dream you’re writing. If to write is to reflect what you’ve already read, and thus to reread, to read is also to rewrite....
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