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The Year of Falling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Year of Falling

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"When the porcelain dolls start turning up on Selina's doorstep, she knows it's a bad sign. Shortly afterwards she embarks on an ill-judged affair with a celebrity TV chef. Both events, and the lies and untold truths at their heart, precipitate a spectacular fall from grace for high-flying graphic artist, Selina. Enter Smith: the sister who saved Selina once before. But this time Smith's life is complicated by a small boy called Ragnar, and she's almost too late"--Publisher website.

The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider
  • Language: en

The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider

Poetry. Women's Studies. Feminist Studies. "'Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety' these words weren't first written for Alice Spider, but they should have been. She is a heroine for our times a multitasker of the human spirit and a joy in all her manifestations. Cherish her, and take her to your hearths." Mary Cresswell, author of Trace Fossils"

Reading the Signs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Reading the Signs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The poems in Janis Freegard's new collection take their starting point from the poet's daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writing in the Ema Saiko room in the Wairarapa. This leads to unexpected discoveries about the world around her, from spider visitors to the writing room and a papyrus-fine gecko skin in the nearby wildlife sanctuary, to news of the ancient bdelloid rotifers that defy natural disasters and the recently extinct amphibians that did not. Then a gender- and species-fluid interpreter turns up to help the poet work her way through the daily revelations in her tea cup ... Reading the Signs is a series of linked poems that are thoughtful and humorous, provocative and tender, and come together as a quiet epic about a planet that is fast running out of puff"--Back cover.

Kingdom Animalia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

Kingdom Animalia

The poems in this first full collection from New Zealand's Janis Freegard are categorized by Linnaean taxonomy: the six sections Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, and Vermes are interspersed with a seven-part poem on the topic of Carolus Linneaus himself. Here Freegard catalogs the various fantastic and artistic, anthropomorphic and objective, rational and self-serving ways that humans draw on the animal world: as symbol and allegory, food and friend, ravening enemy, and sacred icon. From surreal prose poems to gorgeous lists—featuring a stuffed Maori dog, murderous magpies, and cake-shop cockroaches—Freegard's verse reflects the diversity of the animal kingdom and its light-hearted fancifulness belies a strong commitment to conservation.

Out Here
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 533

Out Here

A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and much, much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

Kingdom Animalia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

Kingdom Animalia

Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) believed that it was his mission in life to catalogue everything on the planet: animals, plants, minerals - even a few mythological creatures. Janis Freegard, contrariwise, is a poet trained in botany who has arranged the poems in her witty and engaging first collection by Linnaeus' six animal classes. Featuring a stuffed kuri, murderous magpies and cake-shop cockroaches, Freegard's work reflects the diversity of the animal kingdom and a commitment to conservation - while chronicling the adventures of her hero Linnaeus with a critical but admiring eye.

AUP New Poets 3
  • Language: en

AUP New Poets 3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The latest in the series, this third volume showcases Janice Freegard, Reihana Robinson, and Katherine Liddy, three poets with vastly different yet complementary styles. Freegard writes quirky and often surreal poems about a Wellington inhabited by strange animals, art, and people. Robinson's poems are tropical but gritty, with many set on Pitcairn Island and interspersed with touching lyrics about family and identity in fractured English. Liddy is a promising young poet who has an unusual interest in and an ear for rhyme and rhythm; while some of her poems are texturally dense, she has an impressive range and a pleasing variety.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 22

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

The whimsical illustrations complement the dreamy style of this classic Victorian bedtime story-poem

Morning in the Burned House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Morning in the Burned House

A collection of intimate reflections on such diverse subjects as classical history, popular mythology, love, and the fragility of nature.

Entanglement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Entanglement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. Another eight years on, and a writer at a lake retreat in New Zealand in 2019 obsesses over the disintegration of his marriage following another tragedy. Are these separate stories, or are they one? Is the time traveller actually travelling? Can the past be changed? As the answers to these questions slowly emerge, the three tales become entangled, along with the usual abstractions: love, desperation and physics.