Pill-Rolling Fingers: Poems About Early-Onset Parkinsons – Tara Coleman
Release date: November 2025
Poetry

Pill-Rolling Fingers is a series of poems by Marsden-funded researcher Tara Coleman. It brings together personal poems from her own experience of early-onset Parkinson’s and research poems crafted from the stories of 48 other New Zealanders living with the condition.

It expresses what it is like to be diagnosed with and to live with Parkinson’s — the sense of isolation a person can feel as they face changes to friendships, jobs, and the opportunities to participate in social occasions. It also captures the moments of humour, intimacy, and joy that are experienced despite, and sometimes because of, the challenges of chronic illness.

With honesty, the collection speaks to the complexity of living with an often-misrepresented progressive illness. It celebrates the creativity and resilience of those with Parkinson’s and invites all readers – whether familiar with the condition or not – to listen more closely, and more compassionately.

Tara Coleman is a researcher, poet, and health advocate. In 2022 she was awarded a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of Te Apārangi to study the lived experience of Parkinson’s. Her first collection of poetry, Pill-Rolling Fingers, is one of the outcomes of that project.

 

 

Music Without End: A Book of Listening – Roger Horrocks
Release date: November 2025
Nonfiction

This unique book will introduce you to exciting new areas of music and spark new insights into the nature and pleasures of listening.

Besides providing an unusually wide-ranging, accessible survey of the landscape of music, and the various ways we listen, it features interviews with ten people deeply involved in the field – composers, singers, and sound specialists – working in popular, jazz, classical, experimental or global music. If you’re a listener who enjoys only some of those genres, this book can revolutionize your interest in them all.

Emeritus Professor Roger Horrocks MNZM is the former head of the department of film, television and media studies at the University of Auckland.

Music Without End: A Book of Listening is a sequel to his 2022 A Book of Seeing. Horrocks was the author of Len Lye: A Biography and Song of the Ghost in the Machine, which were both finalists in the NZ Book Awards. He was also the librettist of Len Lye: The Opera.