Alumni Bookshelf 2009
Add your own publication to the alumni bookshelf or browse our selection of titles by alumni and friends.
Semisi Taumoepeau, VDM Verlag
A new book by alumnus Dr Semisi Taumoepeau, South Pacific Aviation, presents a blueprint for the future of the aviation sector in the South Pacific. The Auckland author advocates a managed and integrated flight path that will be lessen the financial burden to the governments and peoples of the region yet deliver essential air services necessary for economic wellbeing.
Warwick Brown, Godwit Press
Alumnus Warwick Brown's new book highlights 100 New Zealand artists who have come to prominence since 2000.
Seen This Century gives collectors an invaluable tool by highlighting who is on the rise, who will become the next big thing and whose work should be bought now before prices skyrocket.
Selina Tusitala Marsh, Auckland University Press
A poetry book and CD from the UoA's first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English
'Selina Marsh is the sassy hip-hop streetwise Samoan siren of South Pacific poetry and poetics. No, correct that: her poetry and poetics are world class. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics are meld-marvellous and her ideas will blow you away.' - Professor Witi Ihimaera.
Buy from AUP direct for the 15% alumni discount
Read an interview with Selina Marsh in the Autumn 2009 edition of Ingenio
CK Stead, Auckland University Press
WINNER, 2009 MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD FOR REFERENCE AND ANTHOLOGY
C. K. Stead is New Zealand’s most distinguished living poet. Since publishing his first poems in periodicals like Landfall in the early 1950s, he has experimented with many forms and modes - from open form, free verse, journal composition, quotation and found text to personal lyric, translation and imitation - while always bringing a strong personality, deft craftsmanship and a background of realism to bear on his poetry. This Collected Poems includes the work of his fourteen volumes of poetry, from his first collection, Whether the Will is Free, to The Black River of 2007. In addition, it reprints 22 early previously uncollected poems that date from 1951 to 1961. Annotated by the author, the Collected Poems illustrates more than fifty years of the range and ambition of Stead’s verse, in which the world always looks ‘hard / at the word and the / word at the world’.
David Veart, Auckland University Press
FINALIST, MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS 2009
‘First catch your Weka’, the explorer Charles Heaphy advised in 1842, then stuff it with sage and onion and roast it on a stick. In that simple way began a great tradition of New Zealand cooking, from Heaphy to the Edmonds Cookery Book, Alison Holst, Hudson and Halls, and the meal on your plate today. In this book, David Veart tells the story of what New Zealanders cooked through the recipes we used. Analysing the crusty deposits and grubby thumb prints on a century and a half of cook books, Veart chronicles the extraordinary foods that we have loved: from boiled calf’s head to the Bill Rowling cake, Irish famine soup to tinned kidneys with mushrooms. First Catch your Weka illuminates the basic elements that make New Zealand cooking distinctive and reveals how our cuisine and our culture have changed. Throughout that history, Veart finds a people who frequently first liked to catch their weka - building a meal out of oysters taken from the rocks, vegetables from the garden and a lamb from the neighbouring farm. By telling the history of what we ate, First Catch your Weka tells us a great deal about who we have been.
