victoria university press wellington (462 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 8vo, card covers, 50pp. 1st printing. VG: clean, solid, unmarked.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, dustwrapper, xii + 167pp. VG/VG: clean and solid book with bumped head corners; wrapper lightly sunned at the spine with creases at the bumped corners and a small tear to the foot of the front panel.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 8vo, 88pp. Softcover, in very good condition. A clean, tight, copy. Bookstore's ink stamp inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. A great copy with very little wear.

0 64 p.; 22 cm. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A few pencilled marks, else very good+.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog.or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert.this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness.heartbreaking and charged with trees.without once sacrificing the forest.Whether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parent's sleepout.or pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pram.this is the book for you.heroically and compulsively stupid.whipping you once again into medieval sunlight. This impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is.juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 8vo, card covers, 82pp. 3rd printing. VG: clean, solid, unmarked; lightly toned pages.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Book is in NF condition with pencil marking to title page, trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. ARN W.09; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. Signed by Elizabeth Know on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. Signed by Elizabeth Knox on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: 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.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade size softcover. Cover is pink on the lower 3/4 and green on top. Black and white print on front and spine. Minor creasing along spine; minor bumping to corners. Pages tight; clean/unmarked. 203 pages. 1992 Reprint. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: 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.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself thats why I let them see me thats why I let them see me on certain nights in certain lights when the planets lined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moon was the correct hue. Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day. They ask us to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. They are both nostalgic for, and exhausted by, the pursuit of an endless summer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. 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. A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? John Newton's verse novel Escape Path Lighting is a throwaway epic, a romp, a curmudgeonly manifesto. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Hedge through the hedge and way back then pushing my way out into the Central Otago sun there was the laughing face of Jean and someone else whose name I have forgotten they played with me as if I was a doll Bernadette Hall is Otago born and bred. Following a long and much enjoyed career as a high school teacher in Dunedin and Christchurch, she has for the last eighteen years lived in a renovated bach at Amberley Beach in the Hurunui, North Canterbury, where she has built up a beautiful garden. Fancy Dancing is her eleventh collection of poetry. It's as close as I'll ever get to writing an autobiography,' she says, laughing. And as for the wilful sonnets that explode in the final pages of this book, she wonders where on earth they came from. It was such fun writing them,' she says, as if I d kicked down the stable doors and taken to the hills.' In 2015 she collaborated with Robyn Webster on Matakaea, Shag Point, an art /text installation exhibited at the Ashburton Art Gallery. In the same year she was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for literary achievement in poetry. In 2017 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in Aotearoa New Zealand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing, Victoria University Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1997. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding so tight it seems to have never been read. DJ is Near Fine, w/ very light edge/shelf wear. Free delivery confirmation.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history - a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas - to explore friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents' and grandparents' choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu's stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand. All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Poetry, Maori. Color paintings by Jenny Rendall. Includes CD, in rear pocket. 80 pages. -- Hardcover, pictorial boards. Condition: near fine, no dust jacket. ISBN 0974707856.

paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Softcover in good condition. Contents in very good condition. Some superficial marks on head of page block. T. Used.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp eye. Was she good or evil? Ignorant or enlightened? What parts of herself did she give up in order to forge ahead in school, church, work, and relationships, with a self that made sense to others? With wit and intelligence, these shape-shifting essays probe the ways in which a persons inner and outer worlds intersect and submit to one another. It is a brilliantly discomfiting, vivid and funny collection in which peace is found in the weirdest moments. A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Its 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for money. They live with Heidi and Dell, who are also like them. Its 2006. Peggy and Greta have two jobs: a job at a call centre, and a job as a moderator for a website. Theyre teaching themselves how to code. Heidi and Dell dont live together anymore, and Dell keeps getting into trouble. One day, Peggy and Greta turn around and theres only one of them. Its 2018. Margaret lives next door to Heidi and her family. She has a job writing code that analyses data for a political organisation, and shes good at it. Every day she checks an obsolete cellphone she found under her bed, waiting for messages. She struggles to stay sober. Then, one day, there are two of them again, both trying to figure out where they have come from. Nothing to See is a compelling, brilliantly original novel about life in the era of surveillance capitalism, when society prefers not to see those who are different, and the line between reality and simulation feels dissolvingly thin. Its 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history. Chessie rebuilds her family's lives on the page, from her parents' honeymoon across Africa, to living in Tokelau as one of five children under ten before returning to New Zealand, where her mother would set her heart and home in the Clarence Valley only to see it devastated in the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, and the family displaced. Written with the same love and compassion that defines her family's courage and strength, We Can Make a Life is an extraordinary memoir about the psychological cost of heroism, home and belonging, and how a family made a life together. I'd always felt that I was emotional because I had been raised by emotional people: talking right from the beginning, unafraid of tears or love or closeness. Was it entrenched in us, to feel things too much? Would we have to fight it away - the black shape at the edges, bounding after us, a smudge of darkness in an otherwise colourful scene. Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Reprint. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 116 p. : ill., map (on endpaper) ; 21 cm. Subjects; Antarctic regions. Birds; Procellariformes. Birds ; Identification. Birds New Zealand ; Identification. Albatrosses New Zealand Identification. Petrels New Zealand Identification. 3 Kg.

Novel. Softcover. Condition: very good (a few pages have stain). ISBN 9780864739124.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. At the heart of Catherine Chidgey's extraordinary new novel is an enigmatic voice that tells the story of German families caught up in a nation's dream. It's 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who cuts prohibited words such as love and mercy out of books. Erich is an only child living a rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bedsheets hang from windows; all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives. The Wish Child is a profound meditation on the wreckage caused by a corrupt ideology, on the resilience of the human spirit, and on crimes that cannot be undone. I am the wish child, the future cast in water. I am the thrown coin, the blown candle; I am the fallen star. The Wish Child is a profound meditation on the wreckage caused by a corrupt ideology, on the resilience of the human spirit, and on crimes that cannot be undone. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Softcover. Condición: Comme neuf. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, As new. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Its 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. Its 2019: Charlies tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommys first girlfriend, Jenna, and the father he has never known, Jim. The year turns, and everything changes again. Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic and the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.