We recently launched Ash Davida Jane's fantastic debut poetry collection, How to Live with Mammals, at Unity Books Wellington. We were really happy to have Pip Adam there to launch the book for u…

Launch speech by Laura Jean McKayI want to tell you about an island off the coast of a very different place from here: where I was living in southern Cambodia. It was a weekend, the weather was fine e…

We launched Danyl's new book Tranquillity and Ruin on Tuesday 23 February at Unity Books Wellington. Below is what editor Ashleigh Young had to say about the collection.Thank you for coming to the la…

Middle Distance emerged, like many good things do at VUP, from our daily morning coffee meeting. We were discussing our literary magazine Sport, and thinking it might be time for it to evolve into som…

We launched the magnificent How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp on Wednesday 9 September. Below is the official launch speech by Maria McMillan – fellow poet…