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Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we've all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It's steeped in tradition and culture. It's essential, it's ordinary and it's surprisingly poet...ic. Somewhere a cleaner captures the spirit, the highs and the lows, of this occupation that often falls below the radar. The poems range across hospitals, offices, marae, clocks, schools, boat hulls, sneakers and more. The poets themselves, a mix of novice and established writers, are equally diverse. Through songs, rhymes, deeply insightful poems and poignant small stories, this anthology gives a voice to a profession both invisible and indispensable. Endorsement: Having walked the corridors of hospitals for more than a few years, I can tell you that cleaners can sometimes be the best doctors of all. And now I find they can write some great poems too. This book is wonderfully democratic. The art here is in the work done before and beyond the writing. The endless picking up, mopping, smoothing and shining. And always, it seems, for someone else. These are poems with strong forearms. My deepest congratulations to every poet in this collection - and my long overdue thanks. I will never walk on a neatly mopped floor again. - Glenn Colquhoun
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"Kaitiakitanga Pasifika draws on the brilliance of the historical celestial navigation of the Pacific, evoking past voyages through contemporary navigational wayfinding using renewable energy. It draws together a visionary movement of indigenous Pacific people"--Back cover.
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The lost issue of Splash magazine, an iconic art and poetry publication of the 1980s.
Four issues of Splash magazine were published in the 1980s, by academics and poets Wystan Curnow, Roger Horrocks, Tony Green and Judi Stout. A 5th issue, with a special focus on performance ...art group From Scratch, was prepared but never printed.
31 years later, Small Bore Books has worked with Wystan Curnow and From Scratch to publish the lost issue. Comes with a contemporary insert by Te Uru to bring the story on From Scratch up to the present day.
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Jean Bartlett's collection from a "lifetime's writings of a passionate, sensitive abd articulate author which wonderfully catpures the emotions of growning up between two world wars: living through the Great Depression and subsequent social and political upheaval; the deaths of f...ine young friends in the Spanish Civil War and WW2; dealing with middle age and growing old. Jean died in 2006 at the age of 94.
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By Fox, B. G.
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Afghanistan, 1827. Suleiman stood in the carnage of his village. At twenty years old he was a man. "I am Suleiman! I take my birthright as Horse Master of all Farkhar". He raised his sword, pointing west to Persia. "No longer will Prince Omid's men plunder Afghanistan. We will fo...llow you, Persians. We will seize your horses and restore our honour. We will invade!" Welcome to The Saffron Runners, the adventures of a bold band of brothers who make a fantastic journey from Hindu Kush to desert to fabled cities and back across the Border of Flags. There is only one thing on their minds: The horses. And only one Horse Master who can lead them. A tale of daring, deception, desperation and incredible action, The Saffron Runners will have your heart pounding as you urge the heavenly horses on, gallop with the drinkers of the wind, and thrill to hot-blooded chases spiced with mystery and romance ... and always, always, the lure of a destiny to be fulfilled. Outstandingly well researched and brimming with historical detail, if you want a real page-turner, this is it.
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Includes excerpt from: The grave mothers.
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By Bannon, Ann
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The Third Novel In The Series Of Classic Lesbian Reissues By The Queen Of Pulp The most political and personal of Bannon's books is now available, featuring its original pulp cover and a new introduction explaining the book's background. Designated the Queen of Lesbian Pulp for a...uthoring several landmark novels from 1957 on, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of the highly acclaimed new editions of Beebo Brinker, Odd Girl Out and I am a Woman, Women In The Shadows picks up with Beebo's relationship with Laura waning, as both women become caught up in the cultural tumult (gay bar raids, heavy drinking, gay rights advocacy) that anticipates by ten years the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969.
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A 1950s pulp fiction tale set in the University of Illinois in which shy Laura embarks on a love affair with her college roommate, the brash, straightforward Beth.
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Recent artists like Norwegian Recycling and E-603 have created a new genre of art within music: digital recycling. These artists take many different well-known and less-known lyrics, music, and spoken word and combine them together. Through the lenses of post-colonial, gender, an...d queer theories, I examine Witi Ihimaera's creative work. As the first published playwright in New Zealand and as an English professor at the University of Auckland, Witi Ihimaera is a role model and leader to many other Maori and New Zealand playwrights and writers. I am most interested in understanding what and how he has been influenced as an artist. I craft a document that extends the idea of a written word in a Maori context, in which I explore the major influences on Ihimaera as a theatrical creator and influencer of other Maori artists. In addition, I use examples from Witi Ihimaera's fictional novel The Uncles Story, as well as many other of his plays and novels, to show examples of influences from Maori culture, Mormonism, and his homosexuality on Ihimaera's work.
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