Launching Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
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…
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Launching Tranquillity and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan
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
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Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by Craig Gamble
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…
Launching How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
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…
Q&A with Rata Gordon
This month we were happy to publish Second Person, the debut poetry collection by Rata Gordon. Rata answered some questions about the collection and the writing process.There is a noticeable amount of…