Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
'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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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
'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.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Here's Dinah on RNZ following her PM's Award.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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‘I vote with the hand that holds
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
‘I vote with the hand that holds
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
Huge congratulations to these three. We're particularly proud of our Dinah! 💙
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Huge congratulations to these three. We're particularly proud of our Dinah! 💙
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Great to see poet Dinah Hawken here! Such a clear-sighted, brave and – when you least expect it – mischievous writer.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Great to see poet Dinah Hawken here! Such a clear-sighted, brave and – when you least expect it – mischievous writer.
Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices.
Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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November 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices.
Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
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Happy publication day to Christina Barton! Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 is art writing at its best and most engaging and a vital piece of New Zealand history.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Happy publication day to Christina Barton! Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand 1985–2021 is art writing at its best and most engaging and a vital piece of New Zealand history.
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Happy publication day to Harry Ricketts! Bonfires on the Ice is out today. This is a beautiful, intelligent and funny book.
Cover (woodcut): Dave Kent
Cover (design): Todd Atticus
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Cover (woodcut): Dave Kent
Cover (design): Todd Atticus
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Happy publication day to Harry Ricketts! Bonfires on the Ice is out today. This is a beautiful, intelligent and funny book.
Cover (woodcut): Dave Kent
Cover (design): Todd Atticus
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Cover (woodcut): Dave Kent
Cover (design): Todd Atticus
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Another extremely exciting book coming in February 2026 is Bill Manhire's Lyrical Ballads. A dazzling blend of story and song where collisions between wonder and reality create unforgettable poems.
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Cover: Todd Atticus
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November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Another extremely exciting book coming in February 2026 is Bill Manhire's Lyrical Ballads. A dazzling blend of story and song where collisions between wonder and reality create unforgettable poems.
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Cover: Todd Atticus
More here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
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Cover: Todd Atticus
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We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
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Cover: Dudley Benson
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November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
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ALAS ALAS ALAS
Here’re some of the works on show at Sala Alas. The show is open 10-4 daily at 218c Willis Street, Wellington until November 12th.
Here’re some of the works on show at Sala Alas. The show is open 10-4 daily at 218c Willis Street, Wellington until November 12th.
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
ALAS ALAS ALAS
Here’re some of the works on show at Sala Alas. The show is open 10-4 daily at 218c Willis Street, Wellington until November 12th.
Here’re some of the works on show at Sala Alas. The show is open 10-4 daily at 218c Willis Street, Wellington until November 12th.
Join us to launch a new book of poetry by the incredible Tusiata Avia.
🔹 Saturday 15 November, 5pm
🔹 Space Academy
🔹 371 St Asaph Street, Christchurch
🔹 All welcome!
Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books, and kai and refreshments will be provided.
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🔹 Saturday 15 November, 5pm
🔹 Space Academy
🔹 371 St Asaph Street, Christchurch
🔹 All welcome!
Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books, and kai and refreshments will be provided.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Join us to launch a new book of poetry by the incredible Tusiata Avia.
🔹 Saturday 15 November, 5pm
🔹 Space Academy
🔹 371 St Asaph Street, Christchurch
🔹 All welcome!
Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books, and kai and refreshments will be provided.
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🔹 Saturday 15 November, 5pm
🔹 Space Academy
🔹 371 St Asaph Street, Christchurch
🔹 All welcome!
Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books, and kai and refreshments will be provided.
www.facebook.com/share/16ZAvv...
Check out our November news, which includes the announcement of our first five books to be published in 2026!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Check out our November news, which includes the announcement of our first five books to be published in 2026!
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Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!
Master of Arts in Creative Writing - Te Kohinga Auaha | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join the Creative Writing programme with a national and international reputation for developing many of New Zealand's best writers.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!
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Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!!
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Party Boy
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!!
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Woooohoooo!!! New Bill Manhire! Lyric Ballads is out 13 February 2026. Can. Not. Wait.
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Lyrical Ballads
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend s...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Woooohoooo!!! New Bill Manhire! Lyric Ballads is out 13 February 2026. Can. Not. Wait.
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"Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’." Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!!
Woooohoooo!!! New Bill Manhire! Lyric Ballads is out 13 February 2026. Can. Not. Wait.
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
Lyrical Ballads
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend s...
teherengawakapress.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’." Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!!
The Sunday Poem, by Harry Ricketts
An epic poem on what hope sounds like
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November 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Michelle will be interviewed by Thom Conroy at Palmerston North library tonight!
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October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Michelle will be interviewed by Thom Conroy at Palmerston North library tonight!
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Delighted to announce that acclaimed poet Tusiata Avia MNZM has been appointed Creative NZ / Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 2026, and will be joining us at the IIML next year to work on her next book! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Tusiata Avia named as 2026 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria Universi...
Acclaimed poet Tusiata Avia MNZM has been appointed Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for ...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Delighted to announce that acclaimed poet Tusiata Avia MNZM has been appointed Creative NZ / Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 2026, and will be joining us at the IIML next year to work on her next book! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
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Oh how gorgeous: the @thwupbooks.bsky.social edition of @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social’s wonderful debut story collection just in. Coming to OZ in 2026 as well, from UQP!
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oh how gorgeous: the @thwupbooks.bsky.social edition of @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social’s wonderful debut story collection just in. Coming to OZ in 2026 as well, from UQP!
'Sometimes curators are criticised as tastemakers and gatekeepers, a pointy-headed elite that gets in the way of the art. I see myself as providing a bridge and a framework to help people understand where the artist ‘is coming from’.'
A Q&A with Christina Barton
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A Q&A with Christina Barton
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The Press
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October 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
'Sometimes curators are criticised as tastemakers and gatekeepers, a pointy-headed elite that gets in the way of the art. I see myself as providing a bridge and a framework to help people understand where the artist ‘is coming from’.'
A Q&A with Christina Barton
www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...
A Q&A with Christina Barton
www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...
'Ever since I discovered that the term “gas-lighting” derives from Patrick Hamilton’s late 1930s play Gas Light (and the two films made soon afterwards), I’ve meant to give his novels a go.' What Harry Ricketts has been reading…
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The Waikato Times
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October 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
'Ever since I discovered that the term “gas-lighting” derives from Patrick Hamilton’s late 1930s play Gas Light (and the two films made soon afterwards), I’ve meant to give his novels a go.' What Harry Ricketts has been reading…
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/culture/3608...
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The @thwupbooks.bsky.social publishing library is filling up
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The @thwupbooks.bsky.social publishing library is filling up
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‘Too much pain, not enough empathy’: Ingrid Horrocks on a book she wouldn’t recommend
‘Too much pain, not enough empathy’: Ingrid Horrocks on a book she wouldn’t recommend
'Last year it seemed to be doing the rounds at high school, and it’s one of very, very few books I suggested that my daughters not read.'...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
‘Too much pain, not enough empathy’: Ingrid Horrocks on a book she wouldn’t recommend