Published by Victoria University Press, Victoria University of Wellington, 1992
ISBN 10: 0864732252 ISBN 13: 9780864732255
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, Wellington, 2020
ISBN 10: 1776563174 ISBN 13: 9781776563173
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach for the possibilities of lyric, even as their worlds are being threatened in a range of agitating ways. In the title poem we hear a baby say Wow to life and to the astonishing prospect of language; but almost immediately we hear the world reply: Also. Along the way there are several desperate jokes. Bill Manhire's most recent books include Some Things to Place in a Coffin (2017), Tell Me My Name (with Hannah Griffin and Norman Meehan, 2017) and The Stories of Bill Manhire (2015). He was New Zealand's inaugural poet laureate, and founded and until recently directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. He has edited major anthologies, including, with Marion McLeod, the now classic Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984). Bill is a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, Wellington, 2020
ISBN 10: 1776563182 ISBN 13: 9781776563180
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Erins mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. Erins mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 1776561791 ISBN 13: 9781776561797
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Good. 336 pages. Cover wornIf we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practice pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory .
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, Wellington, 2020
ISBN 10: 1776563123 ISBN 13: 9781776563128
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of the Wakamarina River, which routinely invades its rooms.Isolated in rural poverty, the lives of Miro and her father and sister are radically enhanced by the Manaroans-charismatic hippies who use their house as a crash pad on journeys to and from a commune in a remote corner of the Marlborough Sounds. Arriving by power of thumb, horseback and hooped canvas caravan, John of Saratoga, Eddie Fox, Jewels and company set about rearranging the lives and consciousness of the blasted family unit. In the Time of the Manaroans brilliantly captures a largely unwritten historical culture, the Antipodean incarnation of the Back to the Land movement. Contrarian, idealistic, sexually opportunistic and self-mythologising too, this was a movement, as the narrator duly discovers, not conceived with adolescents in mind. At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 177656104X ISBN 13: 9781776561049
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 92 pages. I uproot one of the ladies and use her to beat back a path through the others, until they look almost young again in the freshness of their bruises. When I get back to the pond most of the spinsters have frosted in the ground. The children are there wearing new fur coats. One is putting logs on a fire, while the .
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0864738781 ISBN 13: 9780864738783
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 224 pages. With vivid and often hilarious storytelling, this novel is concerned with what it means to be a woman in the modern world by explores issues of sexuality, identity, and discovering one's place in the world. Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio shifts her career from an ice cream .
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1776564251 ISBN 13: 9781776564255
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 332 pages. It's 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It's 2019: Charlie's tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy's first girlfriend, Jenna, .
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0864734093 ISBN 13: 9780864734099
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Foxing to edges, cover creased. Wild futuristic ride by author of Vintner's Luck. Black Oxen is the story of Carme Risk's pursuit of her beautiful and not quite human father through two worlds and three changes of identity. In her forties, in the year 2022, Risk has entered narrative therapy. Her memories and her father's journal take her from the Eden of her earliest childhood to dusty, poor Lequama, a Latin American country, where she and her father become involved with the slightly mad young leaders of a recent revolution and where everyone seems to practice black magic. And, finally, to life in Northern California, where Risk, still in thrall to her elusive father, is now the widow of Lequama's most notorious torturer. Black Oxen features romantic intrigue, machete murders, battles, and bacchanals. Full of unforgettable characters - from an unusually lucky Taoscal chief, to a sexually ferocious therapists, to a frail billionaire who wants to live forever - it is a deliciously entertaining and beautifully written novel.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2021, 2021
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
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Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
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Octavo softcover w/ French flaps (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
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Published by Victoria University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington, 1991
ISBN 10: 0864731469 ISBN 13: 9780864731463
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Good. 328 pages. Cover worn.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 1776561619 ISBN 13: 9781776561612
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. No one can imagine how bad things must be. They sprout in the dark, damp folds of my mind. They grow there- a forest of tiny umbrellas. They flourish- a crown of terrible heads. Bad Things, the new collection by Louise Wallace - poet, not celebrity housewife - is about the different ways in which we survive. Political and personal, the collection navigates celebrity encounters, women and work, the weight of expectation, and the pasts we try to escape and the people we try to hold on to. These poems are dreamlike, confronting, funny, and sometimes unashamedly weird.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0864730098 ISBN 13: 9780864730091
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
First Edition
Paperback. 1st edition. {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1776561961 ISBN 13: 9781776561964
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. In her arresting new book, Kerrin P. Sharpe raises her voice to address with passion and urgency the political, moral and ecological injustices of the world today. Kerrin P Sharpe has published three previous collections of poetry, all with VUP: three days in a wishing well (2012), theres a medical name for this (2014), and rabbit rabbit (2015). Her poems have been published in a wide range of journals and anthologies in New Zealand and internationally, including Sport, Landfall, Best New Zealand Poems, The London Grip, Oxford Poets 13, Blackbox Manifold and POETRY. She lives in Christchurch.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1776561872 ISBN 13: 9781776561872
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
paperback. Poetry as comfort, poetry as confrontation. In Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts reaches into past and future, with other writers and artists - from Kipling to Dylan, Austen to Frame - in the crosscurrents. These are poems of friendship, of love's stranglehold, of the streets and buildings where history played out. Elegiac and bittersweet, Winter Eyes is Harry Ricketts' best yet.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 1776560841 ISBN 13: 9781776560844
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. Love. Work. Death. Complaints. It's the human condition. Whether you wrestle with it, bear it aloft, taste a little schmeck of it on your tongue or pass it along to some other unfortunate, you can't hope to fathom where you came upon it or whether there's a returns policy. Some say poetry is pulled unknowingly out of us, like birdsong. These people are annoying, seeing mystery for mystery's sake. Criticism is pulled unknowingly out of us like birdsong. Small talk is. Sleeptalk is. The first attempt at a phone message is. Poetry takes graft, craft and chisel-work. Especially limericks. 'From its brilliant, sorrowful subversions to its irreverent, exuberant nonsense, the voice here is gorgeously idiosyncratic. A cavorting, satirical imagination hits levels of comedic joy that stand out from any crowd.' -Emma Neale 'Such brio, such zip!' -Steve Braunias.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1776563115 ISBN 13: 9781776563111
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Good. Bluffworld is a funny, horrifying, thought-provoking read, set in academia in an alternate Christchurch. If you have ever experienced the liberation of information-free decision-making, wait till you read about the helium float of meaning-free discourse! Thomas Flannery, our narrator, sits on the toilet writing his personal bildungsroman Bluffworld - although there's not much personal development to report. We follow him through his career and along the way we learn the difference between bluffing, bullshit, and horseshit.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press 2020, 2020
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 177656300X ISBN 13: 9781776563005
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge with her sister’s Danish family in Sønderborg, then in Hamburg with a philanthropic businessman and, later, a radical journalist and his sister. In 1880 the worsening political situation forces this makeshift family into exile – and a new life in a small farming settlement in the KaitÄ«eke valley in New Zealand. Accompanying Josephina on the journey is an ancient sewing sampler given to her by her grandmother. In its lovingly stitched pictures she finds a way of mapping the world she has come from – and that is traversed by the birds of her childhood, the Rohrsänger or reed warblers, which migrate yearly from the salt marshes near her home to ‘somewhere nice and warm where the oranges grow’ Josephina’s story is framed by the reunion of Frank and Beth, descendants of two of her three children by different fathers. It is Beth’s discovery of the reason for the disappearance from the family story of Josephina’s third child that unlocks memory and meaning from the intricately stitched story of the migrating reed warblers. The Reed Warbler is a beautiful and rich family saga that weaves together the lives of six generations, overseen, as Josephina’s son Wolf would observe at a family reunion in 1915, by ‘Ma with that glint in her eye’ ‘Epic, engrossing and richly patterned, The Reed Warbler explores complex migrations: the way human lives move inexorably towards their futures while at the same time doubling back on their pasts. In tracing the story of Josephina and her family, Ian Wedde invites us to consider the threads that tether us to our own histories.’ — Catherine Chidgey {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 177656233X ISBN 13: 9781776562336
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
paperback. A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong?Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but the modern world feels blessedly remote. Working hard is not greatly valued. Mild Pacific sunshine pours down unfailingly. When Arthur Bardruin, fugitive poet, washes up on Marigold Ingle's beach, he dares to hope he may be safe from the gaze of the Continence Police. With Marigold and her parrot, Chuck, he finds an indulgent sanctuary. But the reach of aesthetic decorum is long. A chilly wind is blowing through Paradise . . .Meanwhile, at the Blue Pacific Wellness Farm, Juanita Diaz, Lacanian analyst, has problems with dissolute musician Frank Hortune, who has problems with his mother and a glad eye for Juanita's lover. Where did Chuck learn his bad-tempered Spanish? Can Juanita keep her man on the couch? Can Bardruin keep his trousers on? Will poetry be the winner on the day? John Newton's verse novel Escape Path Lighting is a throwaway epic, a romp, a curmudgeonly manifesto. The verse bowls along like a summer breeze. The satire leaves no target unscathed. {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.
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Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 1776562879 ISBN 13: 9781776562879
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. Craven is an exceptional debut: Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors.This is a smart and disarming collection that traces the ever-changing forms of light and dark in our lives, and how our eyes adjust, despite ourselves, as we go along.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1776562984 ISBN 13: 9781776562985
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. Sado n. shadow 2. reflection 3. humiliation, dishonour -A New Bislama Dictionary Friday 13 March, 2015: Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam makes landfall with devastating consequences. Vanuatu is bruised but not broken. Reeling from the loss of livelihood and struggling to meet basic human needs, people start to reassemble their lives. Cathryn is an NGO worker from New Zealand who has a ruined home, a teenage son and a Ni-Vanuatu boyfriend she hasn't heard from since the phone lines went dead. Faia is a community organiser, a radio journalist and a survivor who fights for women to be heard. Together and apart they navigate their places in the complex cultural and social systems of Vanuatu, where tradition clashes with modern urban life. Sado is a novel about relationships - between friends and family, across cultures and communities, and also with the past. When a terrible accident occurs, all of these relationships are called into question. {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["14"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1776564170 ISBN 13: 9781776564170
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Foxing on endpapers. When the stars were rhinestones. When your car was a blue Holden god. When kisses spread to your back teeth, marathons of sucking. When we pashed through jokes, through tunes, through homework, through the leftovers we shovelled out our schoolbags. When you let me tattoo you with talk. Thirty-one exhilarating new stories from the acclaimed author of Deleted Scenes for Lovers: 'If Slaughter is writing from the black block in her chest, she is also speaking directly into yours.'-Charlotte Graham-McLay, New Zealand Books {"length"=>["8.25"], "width"=>["5.5"], "units"=>["Inches"]}.
Published by Victoria University of Wellington Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0864732104 ISBN 13: 9780864732101
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
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Published by Victoria University Press for the Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington, 1988
ISBN 10: 0864731655 ISBN 13: 9780864731654
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good - sl Wear. First Edition.