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Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
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This is the book that called to me loudest when I finally got to switch off for a few days. Loving it so far. Ash by Louise Wallace, published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social and soon to be out in the US & UK in 2026. #pukapuka
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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And that’s 2025 done! A solid stack.

We will be back in the office from 5 January 2026. For now, ngā mihi o te Kirihimete me te Tau Hou!
❤️ The THWUP team
THWUP's 2025 books are piled on a windowsill, with blue sky out the window behind. They are: Isaac Featherston - 'Petatone'; The Futures of Democracy, Law and Government; Without Fear or Favour; South by South; Out of the Blue; How to Save Democracy; This Compulsion in Us; Star Gazers; The Book of Guilt; All Her Lives; Surplus Women; Chemistry; Selected Poems - Brian Turner; Sick Power Trip; The Anatomy of Sand; The Companion to Volcanology; Black Sugarcane; Makeshift Seasons; Giving Birth to My Father; It's What He Would've Wanted; Bonfires on the Ice.
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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kebabette.bsky.social
Yes yes YES
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 20d
One more piece of wonderful news that we're bursting to share before we close up shop: we're publishing Night, Ma by Elizabeth Knox in April 2026!

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Cover: Todd Atticus, @toddatticus.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
thwupbooks.bsky.social
One more piece of wonderful news that we're bursting to share before we close up shop: we're publishing Night, Ma by Elizabeth Knox in April 2026!

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Cover: Todd Atticus, @toddatticus.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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modernletters.bsky.social
Hilarious and poignant, often at the same time. For anyone who enjoyed a misspent youth.
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Nov 28
Coming February 2026 – Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, by Kate Camp. 🖤⛓️

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Cover by @toddatticus.bsky.social
The book cover is a close up on a woman's hand holding a red plastic landline phone to her ear. Large text on a slight slant says: Kate Camp. LEATHER & CHAINS. My 1986 Diary. Three quotes from early readers are shown in red text, as follows: Kate Camp reads the words of grownupchild Kate of 1986 - achingly funny, arch and louche, often shocking, always clever. And all of it threaded with such pain and sadness and unsettling darkness, such yearning to be loved. - Tracy Farr. An irresistible blend of darkness and light. -Catherine Chidgey. IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 40YO DIARY DO IT FUCKING DO IT. -Melody Thomas.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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modernletters.bsky.social
Excited to read the final version of this collection that began in the 2022 MA workshop!
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Dec 4
✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry.

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On a lime green background, you can see the cover of the book. It is black, with a green preying-mantis-like creature with breasts, a sword, blue wings, and feet shaped like orange stilettos. White text on the cover says 'HUNGUS. AMBER ESAU.' A photo of Amber, who is Sāmoan, Māori and Irish, with dark curly hair, standing in the lolly aisle at a dairy. She is dressed mostly in bright white, with a brown leather jacket, gazing thoughtfully to the side.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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kebabette.bsky.social
OoooooOoooo!
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Dec 4
✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry.

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hun...
On a lime green background, you can see the cover of the book. It is black, with a green preying-mantis-like creature with breasts, a sword, blue wings, and feet shaped like orange stilettos. White text on the cover says 'HUNGUS. AMBER ESAU.' A photo of Amber, who is Sāmoan, Māori and Irish, with dark curly hair, standing in the lolly aisle at a dairy. She is dressed mostly in bright white, with a brown leather jacket, gazing thoughtfully to the side.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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We're delighted to announce New Days for Old by James Brown, out 13 March 2026. A life story in small scenes: funny, moving, erotic, political and undeniably odd. Each scene is like a 1-minute pop song, turning our most familiar-feeling days into something altogether new.
Cover design: Todd Atticus.
The cover of the book is shown. A white paper-textured background with musical staves across it in black. Instead of musical notes, the staves have cut-out letters in black, lilac and cream colours, which spell out 'New Days for Old, James Brown.' Typed in the middle of the page in italics is 'prose poems.' A prose poem from the book appears, in black type on a white background. It says: 'We were testing the strength of our English teacher's patience. She cheerfully swatted away Byron's dart. She made Wordsworth come inside and Coleridge return to his seat. She even laughed at the anatomical drawing on Wollstonecraft's desk, calling it 'wistful.' And she seemed unfazed by the random chirping noises coming from the cupboard behind her desk, ignoring them until the end of class. But when she lifted the latch and found Holderlin huddled inside, she turned to us with eyes blazing.
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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THE COVER! 💚
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Dec 4
✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry.

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hun...
On a lime green background, you can see the cover of the book. It is black, with a green preying-mantis-like creature with breasts, a sword, blue wings, and feet shaped like orange stilettos. White text on the cover says 'HUNGUS. AMBER ESAU.' A photo of Amber, who is Sāmoan, Māori and Irish, with dark curly hair, standing in the lolly aisle at a dairy. She is dressed mostly in bright white, with a brown leather jacket, gazing thoughtfully to the side.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
thwupbooks.bsky.social
✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry.

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hun...
On a lime green background, you can see the cover of the book. It is black, with a green preying-mantis-like creature with breasts, a sword, blue wings, and feet shaped like orange stilettos. White text on the cover says 'HUNGUS. AMBER ESAU.' A photo of Amber, who is Sāmoan, Māori and Irish, with dark curly hair, standing in the lolly aisle at a dairy. She is dressed mostly in bright white, with a brown leather jacket, gazing thoughtfully to the side.
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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toddatticus.com
Enjoyed revealing a little about how the cover for @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip came together for the @christchurchlib.bsky.social blog. Erik’s collection was one of my highlights from @thwupbooks.bsky.social this year.
christchurchlib.bsky.social Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · Nov 28
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Various versions of Sick Power Trip
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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antzlapwood.bsky.social
Xmas is just around the corner... So I'm doing a book giveaway!

Win a copy of my prize-winning story collection Home Theatre 🏠🎭

Simply reply below with a good book you read this year.

Draw closes 5pm NZST Sunday 30 November.

#pukapuka @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Cover of Home Theatre with Xmas themes cheaply added: a Santa hat stuck on a man standing in an apartment window, a red nose and reindeer antlers stuck on a glowing horse in the window above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets.

More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...
The book cover is shown on a pale green background. It is a black cover with a photograph of a cream, collared, long-sleeve button up shirt, on a wire hanger on a slight angle. In pale green writing at the bottom it says 'WHAT TO WEAR Jenny Bornholdt.' A poem from the book is shown in dark blue text on a pale green background. The poem title is 'illness' and the poem reads: 'She's up,/ but not/ to much.// Every limb/ unknowable,/ unstable.// She's up, but just, just/ hanging on. But what/ to wear?'
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
thwupbooks.bsky.social
Yes! 💕
erikkennedy.com Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · Nov 28
Love seeing Todd's work recognised like this. 🥰
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Want more? Here is a lineup of 2025's best book covers in Aotearoa New Zealand! includes Violet and the Velvets by @rachaelking70.bsky.social, Catherine Chidgey, and loads more to please your eyes.
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Violet & the Velvets –Too Shy
YouTube video by Rachael King
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November 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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christchurchlib.bsky.social
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Various versions of Sick Power Trip
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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rachaelking70.bsky.social
I will be running to the bookshop so fast. Especially to read Kate’s reflections on it all.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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"772 years of breathing in and out."

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Rare and memorable: a poets’ celebration
by Stephen Olsen The Poet Laureate gathering held last night at the National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in Wellington was, as billed, a rare and memorable occasion. Of the 10 former lau...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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rachaelking70.bsky.social
This is amazing news.
thwupbooks.bsky.social Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Nov 28
Coming February 2026 – Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, by Kate Camp. 🖤⛓️

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lea...

Cover by @toddatticus.bsky.social
The book cover is a close up on a woman's hand holding a red plastic landline phone to her ear. Large text on a slight slant says: Kate Camp. LEATHER & CHAINS. My 1986 Diary. Three quotes from early readers are shown in red text, as follows: Kate Camp reads the words of grownupchild Kate of 1986 - achingly funny, arch and louche, often shocking, always clever. And all of it threaded with such pain and sadness and unsettling darkness, such yearning to be loved. - Tracy Farr. An irresistible blend of darkness and light. -Catherine Chidgey. IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 40YO DIARY DO IT FUCKING DO IT. -Melody Thomas.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
thwupbooks.bsky.social
Coming February 2026 – Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, by Kate Camp. 🖤⛓️

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lea...

Cover by @toddatticus.bsky.social
The book cover is a close up on a woman's hand holding a red plastic landline phone to her ear. Large text on a slight slant says: Kate Camp. LEATHER & CHAINS. My 1986 Diary. Three quotes from early readers are shown in red text, as follows: Kate Camp reads the words of grownupchild Kate of 1986 - achingly funny, arch and louche, often shocking, always clever. And all of it threaded with such pain and sadness and unsettling darkness, such yearning to be loved. - Tracy Farr. An irresistible blend of darkness and light. -Catherine Chidgey. IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 40YO DIARY DO IT FUCKING DO IT. -Melody Thomas.
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I have a new poem up at 'Anthropocene'. =)

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Erik Kennedy The Distant Sounds of the Paintball War They’re firing as if the whole world is made of ammunition or at least Ferrymead is Their arguments sound like a shaken box of punctuation marks A synaesthete might describe the gunshots as carnation pink I intellectualise violence because I know I benefit from it The confused team is being taught difficult lessons by the angry team They crawl over and under obstacles like map lines I take my anti-anxiety meds to feel a little more anti-anxious I see a suited figure fall before I can hear the cry I’m hit
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Eight New Zealand novelists on the music they write to
Eight New Zealand novelists on the music they write to
From one song played masochistically on repeat to a sprawling 12-hour playlist, this is the music behind the books....
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November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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On 12 February next year, ahead of the 2026 NZ General Election, we will be releasing another book by the prolific Sir Geoffrey Palmer, following his bestselling 2025 title How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Reprint! @thwupbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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'Dinah Hawken has a remarkable ability to situate herself and us in nature and history. To connect us to these bigger things, while – gently yet pointedly - make us ask questions of ourselves.'
Here's Dinah on RNZ following her PM's Award.
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Winner of Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, poet Dinah Hawken
On Thursday evening, poet Dinah Hawken was one of three recipients of a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. The others were, for fiction, Barbara Else and non fiction, Ross Calman. The aw...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM