News

  • Tara Coleman speaks to Mihingarangi Forbes on Radio NZ’s Saturday Morning show about her book Pill-Rolling Fingers: Poems About Early Onset Parkinson’s here.
  • Graham Reid reviews Music Without End: A Book of Listening here.
  • Roger Horrocks talking to Barry Crump on Radio NZ about his book Music Without End can be heard here.
  • An extract from Venus Has No Arms, God Has No Clothes: Born to be an Artist by Jenny Hunt can be read on Ketebooks.
  • The NZ Herald has a feature article on Roanne Barnes Hautapu and her book A Duck-Shaped Octopus that can be read here.
  • A chapter from A Duck-Shaped Octopus: A Family’s Journey Through Childhood Cancer is available to read on Newsroom.
  • For NZ Listener subscribers a feature article on Barbara Francis and her book Titus Angus White & the Māori Captives on Waitematā Harbour 1863/4 can be read here.
  • Russell Tregonning has a thirty minute interview with Kim Hill that can be listened to here, and a facebook page dedicated to the book with photographs and snippets of the launch speech which can be viewed here.
  • Roger Horrocks’ has published an introduction to A Book of Seeing on John Geraets’ online journal for poetic explorations, remake, it can be read here.
  • An extra chapter on theatre from Roger Horrocks’ new book Culture in a Small County, can be downloaded in pdf format and read for free here
  • An extra chapter on other arts (modern dance, jazz music and craft) from Roger Horrocks’ new book Culture in a Small County, can be downloaded in pdf format and read for free here
  • Roger Horrocks’ interview with Lynn Freeman about Culture in a Small Country can be heard here
  • The NZ Listener review of Culture in a Small country can be read here
  • Review of A History of Queen’s Redoubt and the Invasion of the Waikato at Ketebooks
  • Chapter sample from Time to Make a Song and Dance on Newsroom
  • Philip Mathews reviews Time to Make a Song and Dance on Newsroom
  • David Eggleton’s review and overview of Time to Make a Song and Dance, Landfall Reviews Online
  • On being a drongo – Ian Richard’s interview with Mark Amery on RNZ