Moments of invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand writers

O’Brien, Gregory

Heinemann Reed

A Nest Of Singing Birds: 100 Years Of The New Zealand School Journal

Learning Media Ltd.

It begins with an Associated Press newswirefrom Moscow:"Soviet officials here today claimed theyhave performed a medical feat of sensational proportions: the resurrection ofRussian revolutionary leader V. I. Lenin. "President Reagan takes the news skeptically, as do medical scientists at JohnsHopkins and Stanford and the University ofChicago. Billy Graham calls the announcement "blasphemous."But accredited correspondents from allover the world are summoned to a pressbriefing at the Soviet Ministry of Information. "Good Morning, America" televises themob scene in Red Square. Jeane Dixon reveals she had predicted the Lenin story in1959. And soon an astonished world waitsbreathlessly as Lenin flies to New York toaddress the United Nations.Lenin Lives! is a highly entertaining andvery unconventional story of how Westernsociety from politicians and the media tothe man in the street reacts to the mostaudacious international news event of thetwentieth century.

Lenin Lives!

STEIN AND DAY.

Each of the five sections of the Cape is described by a resident

Insider's Guide

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

A bestseller in New Zealand since 2000, when an exhibition at City Gallery in Wellington broke new ground in the study of Maori art and history, this is a new paperback edition of the exhibition catalog. More than 120 paintings, written accounts, and photographs from the time, following the English invasion in 1881 chronicle the story of brave leaders Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi, and celebrate the strength and spirit of the Parihaka community, even under colonial rule.

Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance

Arts & Photography

Hohaia, Te Miringa

Strongman, Lara

History & Criticism

Victoria University Press

A travel book, an autobiographical novel, and a free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, this personal memoir begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, memories and a dream-like present, modernism, the politics of French nuclear testing, swimming, drowning, and underwater explosions are twined together with the life of a family in an innovative and engaging exploration.

News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The exhibition catalog for a retrospective that opened at the City Gallery Wellington in 2007, this collection is an overview of Aberhart’s work to date and includes his iconic photographs of churches, marae, cemeteries, and Masonic lodges—photographs that are a sustained meditation on time, place, and cultural history. Motifs explored in the accompanying essays include the horizon and the human presences that quietly animate this extraordinary body of work.

Aberhart

Paton, Justin

Aberhart, Laurence

Individual Artists

An anthology of poetry selected by O'Brien and White, published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publisher Mallinson Rendel, and to celebrate the inspiration Wellington has provided to 47 poets. Includes many of the great writers of NZ poetry and visitors from overseas. In four sections - central city, harbour and sea, suburbs, and parks, bush and beyond.

Big weather: Poems of Wellington

Science & Math

Environment

Mallinson Rendel

Since its grand opening in 1961, Wellington's Futuna Chapel – devised by architect John Scott and artist Jim Allen – has held a singular place in New Zealand's cultural history. Futuna: Life of a Building tells the remarkable story of the chapel's inception and construction, and its status beyond as well as within the architectural world. The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel's sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue.

Futuna: Life of a Building

Bevin, Nick

Religion & Spirituality

"Days Beside Water" is an ideal introduction to the poetry of Gregory O'Brien, one of the best younger writers (and artists) of New Zealand. The poems are set where sea, land and sky, past, present and future, meet in different lights and moods. There are lyrics, comic interludes, an imagined account of the marriage of Samuel Marsden, the 19th-century missioner. The theme of spiritual marriage - a union of clements in imaginary or historical contexts - recurs in two sequences: an invented life of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, and "The Milk Horse", about a foundling and the Mother Superior of an orphanage. The poems capture the permanent value in moments and emotions, chiefly love. O'Brien's involvement with the graphic arts and add richness to his imagery.

Days Beside Water

Poetry

Carcanet Press Ltd.

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