In her twentieth poetry collection, Elizabeth Smither brings together a new ensemble of surprisin...

New Zealand's leading Maori writer decides at eighty to go back and learn his own language - and ...

Ngati Kuia are tangata whenua of Te Tauihu-o-Te-Waka-a-Maui (the northern South Island). Descende...

A leading Maori intellectual charts our political future.

An assured debut poetry collection that playfully honours and subverts the lyric tradition.

AUP New Poets 12 brings together three careful observers of the everyday and the ineffable. Anuja...

For more than five decades, gangs have played a pivotal role in New Zealand crime life, beginning...

The first published work of a young poet from Dunedin in New Zealand, the poems in this collectio...

Can you save the planet and have some fun along the way? Aimed at the teacher who updates student...

In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking P.I. Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted h...

A luminous exploration of thought by one of our most distinguished poets. 'If sometimes I think o...

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly tells the s...

In her debut collection, Amy Marguerite explores the peculiar loveliness and specific loneliness ...

Photography was invented in France in 1839 - the year before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in...

For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the ar...

A definitive collection of poetry from New Zealand's most distinguished poet.

Originally commissioned as the libretto for a work by composer John Psathas for the 50th birthday...

Where Selina Marsh's first collection, Fast Talking PI, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrest...

This collection of poems was first featured in ''AUP New Poets 1''. Teatime was when Anna Jackson...

'A new poetry collection that takes readers among 'the unsilent women', from Hipparchia to J.K. R...

Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across i...

This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead's most lasting and memorable works into a single volum...

At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her 'mophead.' She ties her hair ...

A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A grey sky like a gover...

'This is a book of chapters on key aspects of Måaori language and culture authored by two of this...

In this extraordinary full-length collection, Alice Miller explores history, myth, scene, place, ...

From one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers comes this poetry collection that encompasses m...

Thorough and unique, this is a survey of the life and work of New Zealand's Leo Bensemann--a man ...

Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan's third book of poems, St...

A captivating exploration of identity and language through contemporary New Zealand poetry.

Ultimately a book about ageing and the consideration of death, this collection moves from the war...

The poems in The Glass Rooster explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures--from n...

This is the third book in AUP's New Poets series, which began in 1999 and has launched an oustand...

From the chanted songs and oratory of traditional culture, to engagement with the English languag...

An especially beautiful new collection from a gifted poet whose individual voice is unlike any ot...

This poetry anthology was conceived as something of a stunt to heighten the visibility of New Zea...

Discover fresh voices in New Zealand poetry. This anthology introduces three extraordinary new po...

Offering poems that draw vividly on the landscape, history, and mythology of Ireland-while making...

In Anna Jackson's fifth collection of poetry, Thicket, a rich and leafy life is closing in on the...

Enchanting poems that find the extraordinary in the ordinary.

A collection of poems that are earthy, cryptic, and exquisite.

For over a century, New Zealand has built its economy through a series of commodity-based booms--...

A little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter, these ...

Lyrics from a karaoke band, rants and chants about the place and the people, gestures towards the...

The major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This fi...

This collection of poetry deals with the domestic life of a family, mother, father, and two small...

Clung is a first solo collection by a poet who first appeared in Auckland University Press's AUP ...

No te huringa o te kopaki, i tana ringa e wiri ana, ka kite iho a Hare i tetahi hiri-wakihi waipo...