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Big subjects are caught in its glow: God, drugs, love, anti-motherhood, intergenerational trauma, loneliness, failure, and 3am existential anxiety. Cover photo (on television): Seonhye, 1983 Cover design: Spencer Levine teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wat...

Watching Television in a Love MotelIn this unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee, television – like love – binds us and liberates us; inspires, infuriates and illuminates us. Watching Television in a Love Motel is a poetic chr...teherengawakapress.co.nz

The collection is a poetic chronicle of time in Aotearoa, South Korea and the USA. In four parts – ‘Daytime Television’, ‘Primetime Television’, ‘Late Night Television’, and ‘Graveyard Slot’ – she looks at her past, family and self with the help of the unwavering cultural force that is TV.

Cover: Quilt made by Kathleen Lockett, c. 1930, photographed by Kathy Greensides, Te Puni Tiaki Taonga o Whanganui | Whanganui Regional Museum Design: Todd Atticus

The poet looks back at various episodes of her life and then far ahead, to other lives and ways of seeing. She sheds cynicism, celebrates some constraints and rejects others, and keeps rewriting the endings. teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/sal...

Salt QuiltSalt Quilt is a portrait of an uneasy stretch of time. The poet looks back at various episodes of her life and then far ahead, to other lives and ways of seeing. She sheds cynicism, celebrates some co...teherengawakapress.co.nz

📜 Thursday 9 July, 5:30pm 📜 Davis Lecture Theatre, Whanganui Regional Museum, Whanganui 📜 Free event – koha welcome Bookings appreciated as space is limited: contact info@wrm.org.nz A huge thank you to Paige’s Book Gallery and Lit. Whanganui Booklovers Festival for their support of this launch.

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Cover: Zero Tolerance, a two-year-old filly by Derryn out of Bluzero, trained by Tayla Hall Cover and author photos: Florence Charvin Photography Cover design: Todd Atticus

Over ten years, the lives of the racecourse opened up, and the book became a portrait of a changing industry and the people within it. This is a life of hard work and constant risk, as well as community and love. And horses. teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/it-...

It Gets In Your Blood‘Come for a ride with me, and see what I see, down in the dirt and sweat and horseshit, right in the belly of the work of a racing stable. These are my real people, and this is the life I would lead i...teherengawakapress.co.nz

In 2015, Marty set out to immerse herself in the world of thoroughbred horse racing—to spend time in the stables and training grounds of the Hawke’s Bay racecourse, and talk to people in every role. The project turned out to be harder—and more surprising, funny & drawn out—than she’d ever expected.

In 2015, Marty set out to immerse herself in the world of thoroughbred horse racing—to spend time in the stables and training grounds of the Hawke’s Bay racecourse, and talk to people in every role. The project turned out to be harder—and more surprising, funny & drawn out—than she’d ever expected.

Part reportage, history and personal reflection, Green Sea looks closely at what keeps us going through the tangle of ordinary life – and at the mercies others show us when we feel most alone. Preorder here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/gre...

Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand BushJohn Summers’ worst nightmare is getting lost in the bush. He has always carefully – myopically, even – followed the track. Death lurks at the edge of his fear, as well as cold, hunger, loneliness and...teherengawakapress.co.nz

Summers talks to those who have survived – from a man found near death after 29 days in Kahurangi National Park to a woman who covered herself with earth to stay warm in the Orongorongo Valley. He explores what ‘lost’ really means, a metaphor for everything from addiction to a midlife crisis.

Letteri invites us to rethink what we know about horses, and to see them not as objects, but as beings perfect in themselves. More info and preorders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/per...

Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human WorldWhen Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaini...teherengawakapress.co.nz

It's centred on Bill's 2016 cycle 'Known unto God', commemorating the Battle of the Somme, and bookended by poems composed shortly after the 2019 mosque attacks in Christchurch. Tickets here: www.loemis.nz/little-prayers

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🔵 Wednesday 24 June, 6pm 🔵 Unity Books Wellington 🔵 Free event - all welcome! More info here: www.facebook.com/share/17jTTc...

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