Podcasts about Auckland University Press

Paul Diamond reviews Atlas of the New Zealand Wars by Derek Leask published by Auckland University Press

On Various Artists i tēnei wiki... Beth had a kōrero with Tāmaki Makaurau-based poet Amy Marguerite about her debut poetry collection, over under fed, out now via Auckland University Press.  She also spoke with Pōneke-based poet Gregory Kan about his new poetry collection, Clay Eaters, out now via Auckland University Press, also. Sofia had a kōrero with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum's Wikimedian in Residence, Anjuli Selvadurai, about the Wiki 101 Edit-a-thon tomorrow.  And Beth also had a kōrero with the Artistic Director of the Auckland Writers Festival for 2025, Lyndsey Fineran, about the programme this year. And for Stage Direction this week, Ngahiriwa Rauhina joined Alice Canton in the studio to speak about ration the Queens veges currently on at Te Pou Theatre. Whakarongo mai!

Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Māori lived, worked and raised their families, Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War (Auckland University Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Wanhalla, Dr. Sarah Christie, Dr. Lachy Paterson, Dr. Ross Webb and Dr. Erica Newman tells the story of the profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War. While the Māori Battalion fought overseas, the Māori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Māori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women's auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Māori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how Māori engaged with the state. And, as Māori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for Māori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation. From ammunition factories to kūmara fields, from Te Puea Hērangi to Te Paipera Tapu, Te Hau Kāinga provides the first substantial account of how hapori Māori were shaped by the wartime experience at home. It is a story of sacrifice and remarkable resilience among whānau, hapū and iwi Māori. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Māori lived, worked and raised their families, Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War (Auckland University Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Wanhalla, Dr. Sarah Christie, Dr. Lachy Paterson, Dr. Ross Webb and Dr. Erica Newman tells the story of the profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War. While the Māori Battalion fought overseas, the Māori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Māori men and women throughout Aotearoa in the home guard, the women's auxiliary forces, and national agricultural and industrial production. Māori mobilisation was an exercise of rangatiratanga and it changed how Māori engaged with the state. And, as Māori men and women took up new roles, the war was to become a watershed event for Māori society that set the stage for post-war urbanisation. From ammunition factories to kūmara fields, from Te Puea Hērangi to Te Paipera Tapu, Te Hau Kāinga provides the first substantial account of how hapori Māori were shaped by the wartime experience at home. It is a story of sacrifice and remarkable resilience among whānau, hapū and iwi Māori. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies

 Amy Stewart paints a powerful portrait of the human passion for plants in “The Tree Collectors” with fifty different tales of people who, for one fascinating reason or another, devote their life to trees. The book is illustrated with Amy's vibrant watercolours of the trees and their idiosyncratic owners. Compared in his heyday to Brett Whitely, painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940–2012) was an artistic icon in New Zealand in the 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds and the Te Henga coastline are imprinted upon the psyche of that nation. Don Binney was a mercurial, eccentric  and often abrasive character whose early brief fame defined his life. In “Don Binney: Flight Path” award-winning author and curator Gregory O'Brien follows the painter from the wild coast of New Zealand through Latin America and Europe, using his letters, journals, and distinctive bird paintings to take us inside Don Binney's world. Guests Amy Stewart, NYT best-selling author of “The Tree Collectors; Tales of arboreal obsession”, “The Drunken Botanist; The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks” and “Wicked Plants; The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities”. Greg O'Brien: Wellington-based poet, painter and curator who has written books on art for young people as well as several other books on artists including Ralph Hotere and Pat Hanly, and co-edited several poetry anthologies besides his solo poetry collections. His most recent book of poems is “House and Contents”, Auckland University Press. Other books that get a mention Cath mentions “An Uneasy Inheritance; My family and other radicals” by Polly Toynbee and Shankari Chandran's new novel “Safe Haven”. Michaela mentiones “The God of No Good” by Sita Walker.   INSTAGRAM @amystewart @text_publishing @aucklanduniversitypressSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Amy Stewart paints a powerful portrait of the human passion for plants in “The Tree Collectors” with fifty different tales of people who, for one fascinating reason or another, devote their life to trees. The book is illustrated with Amy's vibrant watercolours of the trees and their idiosyncratic owners. Compared in his heyday to Brett Whitely, painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940–2012) was an artistic icon in New Zealand in the 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds and the Te Henga coastline are imprinted upon the psyche of that nation. Don Binney was a mercurial, eccentric  and often abrasive character whose early brief fame defined his life. In “Don Binney: Flight Path” award-winning author and curator Gregory O'Brien follows the painter from the wild coast of New Zealand through Latin America and Europe, using his letters, journals, and distinctive bird paintings to take us inside Don Binney's world. Guests Amy Stewart, NYT best-selling author of “The Tree Collectors; Tales of arboreal obsession”, “The Drunken Botanist; The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks” and “Wicked Plants; The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities”. Greg O'Brien: Wellington-based poet, painter and curator who has written books on art for young people as well as several other books on artists including Ralph Hotere and Pat Hanly, and co-edited several poetry anthologies besides his solo poetry collections. His most recent book of poems is “House and Contents”, Auckland University Press. Other books that get a mention Cath mentions “An Uneasy Inheritance; My family and other radicals” by Polly Toynbee and Shankari Chandran's new novel “Safe Haven”. Michaela mentiones “The God of No Good” by Sita Walker.   INSTAGRAM @amystewart @text_publishing @aucklanduniversitypressSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rōmeo rāua ko Hurieta [Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare] Translated by Te Haumihiata Mason. Auckland University Press. 2023 NZM 2631 Ref: https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/search/card?id=a76b7363-8943-5123-afab-4329e35f87f9&entityType=FormatGroup Read by Moira Apiti-Civcic and Robert Eruera on the theme Whakamāoritia. Recorded in support of the Waiwaia Ngā Ngutu Exhibition 2024 For more information about the exhibition: https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/2024/09/waiwaia-nga-ngutu/

Paul Diamond reviews Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Maori, Honouring the Treaty by Avril Bell published by Auckland University Press

Claudia Herz Jardine of Scorpio Books reviews In the Half Light of a Dying Day by CK Stead published by Auckland University Press.

Airini Beautrais reviews Hopurangi-Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka by Robert Sullivan published by Auckland University Press

Robert Sullivan is a poet and an associate professor in creative writing at Massey University who has just published his latest book of poems, Hopurangi: Songcatcher, with Auckland University Press.

Lissa Michell reviews A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa.

Sonja de Friez reviews Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by Anne Kennedy published by Auckland University Press

Mellissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews three of their favourite books from last year: Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger, published by Tender Press; Happy Place by Emily Henry, published by Penguin Books; and Aria by Jessica Hinerangi, published by Auckland University Press

Sonja de Friez reviews Don Binney: Flight Path by Greg O'Brien published by Auckland University Press

Melissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Transposium by Dani Yourukova, published by Auckland University Press. RRP $30.00

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today:  Frances speaks with Paula Morris, editor of HIWA, about a new anthology of contemporary Maori short stories out of Auckland University Press.  Liam also had a yarn with Erica Stretton about National Poetry day, taking place on and around next Friday, August 25th.  Frances also speaks with Imogen Taylor about her show ‘murmurs' opening at Michael Lett this evening   Plus, a stacked art guide to finish things off - make sure you go to the 95bFM Record Fair tomorrow and help keep the b afloat! ⛵⛵

Airini Beautrais reviews Aria by Jessica Hinerangi published by Auckland University Press

Cynthia Morahan reviews three of her favourite books from last year: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm, published by Simon and Schuster, The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate, published by Penguin Random House and Jumping Sundays - The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger, published by Auckland University Press

In the 47 years since Elizabeth Smither published her first poetry collection, Here Come the Clouds, she's won numerous awards and was our Poet Laureate in the early 2000s. Her latest collection My American Chair invites us to roam the world with her, through a series of memorable moments and encounters. But, as she tells Lynn Freeman, there are also many poems about home, aging, mortality, friendship and family. Auckland University Press has published Elizabeth Smither's new poetry collection, My American Chair.

Harry Ricketts reviews My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither, published by Auckland University Press

Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville has launched her first poetry collection from her new home - in Canada. She has several academic books to her name but Always Italicise - How to write while colonised is a personal account of racism experienced in and out of academic institutions, and her fears for her baby daughter being brought up in Aotearoa. The title 'Always italicise foreign words', was advice from a friend, and you'll find that in Alice's poems, English is in italics, Maori is not. Alice talks to Lynn Freeman about the collection, inspired by an experience she had at a writer's festival. Always Italicise - how to write while colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville is an Auckland University Press publication.

It's easy to imagine that a new collection of Climate Change poetry from around the Pacific could be overwhelmingly a picture of doom and gloom. But what the four Kiwi editors of No Other Place to Stand have achieved, is a balance of the angry and the philosophical, the sad and the satirical. One of the editors, Canterbury poet Rebecca Hawkes, talks to Lynn Freeman about the collection's range. The other editors involved with No Other Place to Stand are Jordan Hamel, Erik Kennedy and Essa Ranapiri. It's published by Auckland University Press.

In Episode 4 of Multi-Verse, poet Gregory Kan reads and discusses poetry from his book Under Glass with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham. This conversation explores world-building, how to approach the experience of trauma in text, what humans have that artificial intelligence doesn't, and how much information is just enough. Gregory Kan's Under Glass (2019) is available from Auckland University Press: aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/under-glass/ Listen to more poetry at www.multiversepoetry.org

An acerbic wit and and astute observations dominate the poems in A Riderless Horse, the latest collection by Palmerston North wordsmith, Tim Upperton. Tim's two previous poetry collections were A House on Fire and The Night We Ate the Baby. He's a three-time winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Competition, and he's both a creative writing teacher and landscape gardener. Most of the poems in A Riderless Horse have had an earlier life, having been seen in a range of publications. But Tim tells Lynn Freeman he's reworked most of them for this collection. A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton is published by Auckland University Press.

Cynthia Morahan reviews Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger, published by Auckland University Press.

Harry Ricketts reviews A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton, published by Auckland University Press.

Phil Vine reviews No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Jordan Hamel, Rebecca Hawkes, Erik Kennedy and Essa Ranapiri, published by Auckland University Press.

He's kept us waiting for more than a decade but writer Robert Sullivan has just published a new poetry collection in which he examines both his Maori and Pakeha lineage. The poems in Tunui Comet are deeply personal. They encompass the distant past and the future, while Te Reo and English stand confidently together in some of the works. Lynn Freeman talks with Robert - who's currently teachng at Waitaki Boys High School in Oamaru. He reads one of the poems from the collection - and it's a true story: Robert Sullivan' s Tunui Comet is published by Auckland University Press.

Ash Davida Jane reviews Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes, published by Auckland University Press

Harry Ricketts reviews Super Model Minority by Chris Tse, published by Auckland University Press

One of the first Kiwi creatives to put up their hands to help schools struggling with post-Covid-mandate staff shortages has also just won a Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement. And to top off a big month, Anne Kennedy has just published a new collection of often confronting poems, The Sea Walks into a Wall. Anne's also a novellist and short story writer, and she taught creative writing in both Tamaki Makaurau and Hawai'i. Lynn Freeman asks her why she was so keen to offer her time and expertise to schools when she first saw the idea floated on Twitter? The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy is published by Auckland University Press.

Michelle Rahurahu reviews Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQU+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse, published by Auckland University Press.

Michelle Rahurahu reviews Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQU+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse, published by Auckland University Press.

How does society place limitations on the way we live in our bodies? How might we resist and refuse this through writing? In this episode, Emma Barnes, Whina Pomana, Hana Pera Aoake, and Kerry Lane share their work and discuss writing, fluidity, gender, and bodies. This event was sponsored by Auckland University Press. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (28th - 31st October 2021) https://youngwritersfest.nz/

In the face of rising sea levels, how do we engage our writing practice with the world around us? In this episode researcher, Zoë Heine will be joined by Hana Pera Aoake, Jordan Hamel, Robyn Maree Pickens and Kerry Lane to discuss their practice. This event was sponsored by Auckland University Press. This event was part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (28th - 31st October 2021) https://youngwritersfest.nz/

Chris Tse reviews AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng, published by Auckland University Press.

Chris Tse reviews AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng, published by Auckland University Press.

Faith Wilson reviews Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh, published by Auckland University Press.

Faith Wilson reviews Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh, published by Auckland University Press.

Sonja de Friez reviews Billy Apple Life/Work by Christina Barton, published by Auckland University Press.

Sonja de Friez reviews Billy Apple Life/Work by Christina Barton, published by Auckland University Press.

Jordan Hamel is a Pōneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam Champion and has performed at slams and festivals across Aotearoa and the USA. In September 2019 he flew to San Diego to compete in the 2019 Individual World Poetry Slam Championships.He is the co-editor of everyone's favourite lockdown lit-journal Stasis. He is also a co-editor of a Forthcoming Climate Change Poetry Anthology to be published by Auckland University Press. Recent poems of his have popped up in The Spinoff, Newsroom, SPORT 47, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Landfall and elsewhere.www.theDOC.nzwww.patreon.com/theDOCNZwww.twitter.com/patbrittenden

Poet Rhian Gallagher's latest collection Far Flung takes us from South Island bush to Dunedin's notorious Seacliff Mental Hospital. She also reflects on the many challenges facing Irish migrants who came to New Zealand in the late 1800s. In one of them, she imagines the life of Agnes who arrived full of hope, but ended up trapped in the Seacliff asylum. Rhian Gallagher talks to Lynn Freeman about the stories of those dark days.. Far Flung by Rhian Gallagher is published by Auckland University Press. Her previous collection, Shift, won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry.

Harry Ricketts reviews AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae and Claudia Jardine. Edited by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press.

Harry Ricketts reviews You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 by C.K. Stead. This book is published by Auckland University Press.

David Hill reviews Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson, published by Auckland University Press.

Zara StanhopeCuratorial ManagerAsian and Pacific Art As a curator practising within institutions and independently Zara Stanhope focuses on expanding engagement with contemporary art across the Global South. She is currently the Lead Curator for Post hoc by Dane Mitchell, New Zealand’s pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Currently Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art at Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Stanhope is the lead curator on the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) for 2021 and led the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial in 2018. Other recently curated exhibitions and collaborations include Dane Mitchell’s Iris, Iris, Iris (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, 2017–18, co-curator Mami Kataoka); Ann Shelton: Dark Matter (Auckland Art Gallery 2016–17); Out of Office, Public Share collective, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne 2017); Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America (Auckland Art Gallery, 2016, co-curator Beatriz Bustos);  Yang Fudong: Filmscapes (Centre for the Moving Image and Auckland Art Gallery, 2014–15, co-curator Ulanda Blair), and TransVersa: Artists from Australia and New Zealand (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, 2006, co-curator Danae Mossman). Stanhope is commissioning editor of and has contributor to: Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, Auckland Art Gallery (2016); The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand, co-edited with Ngahiraka Mason, Auckland University Press and Auckland Art Gallery (2016); and collected symposium papers Artmatter 01: Engaging Publics/Public Engagement, Auckland Art Gallery and AUT University, 2014 and Artmatter 2: Agency and Aesthetics, co-edited with Ann Shelton, Auckland Art Gallery and Massey University (2018). Her other recent publications include: ‘Living in These Times’ in Gregor Kregar, Gow Langsford Gallery and Gregor Kregar, Auckland (2018); ‘Everything Now’ in Us V Them: Tony de Lautour, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2018); ‘We Journey on through These Rough Waters’ in APT9, Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art (2018), Found in Translation (for Richard Maloy: Things I Have Seen) Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo (2017). She is a regular contributor to art magazines and journals, recently publishing: ‘Curating APT9: Staying with the Questions’, Art Monthly Australasia, iss 313, Summer 2018–19: 34–39 and ‘Home Truths: The Politics of Debility in Recent Projects by Shannon Novak’, Art New Zealand, iss 68, Summer 2018–19: 62–65. Institutional roles Stanhope has held include: Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia (2002−08); inaugural Director of Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1999–2002); and Assistant Director, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (1993–99). She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Design at AUT University, Auckland and at RMIT University, Melbourne, and holds a PhD from the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra which focused on the international development of socially engaged art practices. Dancers, part of Women's Wealth' in The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)Start date 24 November 2018End Date 28 April 2019OPENING WEEKEND Vuth Lyno, 'House-Spirit' 2018, installation viewThe 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)Start date 24 November 2018End Date 28 April 2019OPENING WEEKEND

In his new book, Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2017), Chris Brickell, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, Gender & Social Work at the University of Otago, explores the lives of teenagers in New Zealand from the 19th century through the 1960s.  While most histories of New Zealand grant young people only a marginal role in the story, Brickell draws on their diaries, letters, and photographs to illuminate the larger-scale changes going on in New Zealand society, from work and school to leisure and social mores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2017), Chris Brickell, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, Gender & Social Work at the University of Otago, explores the lives of teenagers in New Zealand from the 19th century through the 1960s.  While most histories of New Zealand grant young people only a marginal role in the story, Brickell draws on their diaries, letters, and photographs to illuminate the larger-scale changes going on in New Zealand society, from work and school to leisure and social mores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2017), Chris Brickell, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, Gender & Social Work at the University of Otago, explores the lives of teenagers in New Zealand from the 19th century through the 1960s.  While most histories of New Zealand grant young people only a marginal role in the story, Brickell draws on their diaries, letters, and photographs to illuminate the larger-scale changes going on in New Zealand society, from work and school to leisure and social mores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2017), Chris Brickell, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology, Gender & Social Work at the University of Otago, explores the lives of teenagers in New Zealand from the 19th century through the 1960s.  While most histories of New Zealand grant young people only a marginal role in the story, Brickell draws on their diaries, letters, and photographs to illuminate the larger-scale changes going on in New Zealand society, from work and school to leisure and social mores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland University Press, 2017), Michael Belgrave, Professor of History at Massey University, tells the story of the negotiations, or diplomatic “dance,” between the Māori of the Rohe Pōtae (the King Country in the western part of the North Island) and the colonial Europeans.  Belgrave traces the negotiations through successive stages, culminating in an agreement in 1883, which, by being the first written down, marked a diplomatic turning point. But the dance continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland University Press, 2017), Michael Belgrave, Professor of History at Massey University, tells the story of the negotiations, or diplomatic “dance,”  between the Māori of the Rohe Pōtae (the King Country in the western part of the North Island) and the colonial Europeans.  Belgrave traces the negotiations through successive stages, culminating in an agreement in 1883, which, by being the first written down, marked a diplomatic turning point.  But the dance continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland University Press, 2017), Michael Belgrave, Professor of History at Massey University, tells the story of the negotiations, or diplomatic “dance,”  between the Māori of the Rohe Pōtae (the King Country in the western part of the North Island) and the colonial Europeans.  Belgrave traces the negotiations through successive stages, culminating in an agreement in 1883, which, by being the first written down, marked a diplomatic turning point.  But the dance continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland University Press, 2017), Michael Belgrave, Professor of History at Massey University, tells the story of the negotiations, or diplomatic “dance,”  between the Māori of the Rohe Pōtae (the King Country in the western part of the North Island) and the colonial Europeans.  Belgrave traces the negotiations through successive stages, culminating in an agreement in 1883, which, by being the first written down, marked a diplomatic turning point.  But the dance continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885 (Auckland University Press, 2017), Michael Belgrave, Professor of History at Massey University, tells the story of the negotiations, or diplomatic “dance,”  between the Māori of the Rohe Pōtae (the King Country in the western part of the North Island) and the colonial Europeans.  Belgrave traces the negotiations through successive stages, culminating in an agreement in 1883, which, by being the first written down, marked a diplomatic turning point.  But the dance continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Janis Freegard reads her poem 'Albatross' from The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press

Janis Freegard reads her poem 'Albatross' from The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press

Neutrinos is a poem by Janis Freegard from her collection The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press

Neutrinos is a poem by Janis Freegard from her collection The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press