Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick

Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick
Author: Courtney Sina Meredith
Publisher: Beatnik Pub
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780473219987

Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an educated, politically aware, international voice.

Remember Me

Remember Me
Author: Anne Kennedy
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1776711181

In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 200 poems from Aotearoa to learn by heart &– whakatauki and odes, poems of love and of nature, of whanau, history and politics.For a wedding, a tangi, for a day at school or an evening at home, Remember Me will be a lively poetic companion for years to come.

Out Here

Out Here
Author: Emma Barnes
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1776710770

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.

The Whole Intimate Mess

The Whole Intimate Mess
Author: Holly Walker
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0947518924

‘I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.’ A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the story of how she became one of New Zealand’s youngest parliamentarians, how motherhood intervened, and how she found solace and solidarity in the writings of women. This short book makes a passionate case for the role of literature in political change and personal resilience, and for the importance of women’s voices in the public sphere.

The Interregnum

The Interregnum
Author: Morgan Godfery
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0947492658

‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ – Antonio Gramsci Is New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment between society-wide discontent and political change? In BWB’s latest book of essays, edited by Morgan Godfery, ten of New Zealand’s sharpest emerging thinkers gather to debate the ‘morbid symptoms’ of the current moment, from precarious work to climate change, and to discuss what shape change might take, from ‘the politics of love’ to postcapitalism. The Interregnum interrogates the future from the perspective of the generation who will shape it. Contributors: Andrew Dean, Max Harris, Lamia Imam, Chloe King, Daniel Kleinsman, Edward Miller, Courtney Sina Meredith, Carrie Stoddart-Smith, Wilbur Townsend and Holly Walker.

Black Marks on the White Page

Black Marks on the White Page
Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143770306

A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and aesthetically exciting, these stories expand our sense of what is possible in Indigenous Oceanic writing. Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti present the very best new and uncollected stories and novel excerpts, creating a talanoa, a conversation, where the stories do the talking. And because our commonalities are more stimulating than our differences, the anthology also includes guest work from an Aboriginal Australian writer, and several visual artists whose work speaks to similar kaupapa. Join us as we deconstruct old theoretical maps and allow these fresh Black Marks on the White Page to expand our perception of the Pacific world.

Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels Time (Book Center)

Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels Time (Book Center)
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Oregan Publishing
Total Pages: 6413
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This collection of Joseph Conrad's complete works is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. Dates of first publication can be found at the end of the stories.

Lord Jim Volume 2 EasyRead Edition

Lord Jim Volume 2 EasyRead Edition
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006-11
Genre:
ISBN: 1425047483

"Lord Jim" is the story of a seaman and his various adventures. The writer focuses on that one moment of Jim's life where lack of courage changes it forever. He joins a group of officers who manage to escape successfully from a sinking ship and leave all passengers to drown. Later, Jim is the only person who accepts his sin and cowardice publicly. Engrossing!

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1914
Genre: Anthropometry
ISBN:

"Incorporates the extensive amount of human engineering data compiled and organized by Henry Dreyfuss Associates over the last thirty years ... Consists of pictorial selectors which present over 20,000 bits of information, basically encompassing anthropometry, guidelines for seating design, and requirements for the handicapped and elderly. Men, women, and children - large and small - are represented." from page 1.

Plant Kin

Plant Kin
Author: Theresa L. Miller
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477317422

The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah), a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops, whom they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as it reckons with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.