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"Whakaorangia ana i te pukapuka nei e tona kaiwhakamaori e Te Haumihiata Mason te ao o Romeo raua ko Hurieta ki te reo whakaatu i te wairua Maori. Mauroa ana te kaingakautia o nga whakaari a Wiremu Hakipia i te ao Maori - mai i nga whakamaoritanga a Takuta Pei Te Hurinui o Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weneti, o Othello me Julius Caesar ki nga whakamaoritanga a Takuta Merimeri Penfold i nga oriori aroha a Hakipia. Whaia ana e Te Haumihiata tenei tikanga i tana whakamaoritanga o Toroihi raua ko Kahira i whakaaritia ki te Whare Whakaari o te Globe i Ranana i te 2012, tahuri ana ki te whakaari a Hakipia mo te aroha whaiaipo hinapouri e tino kaingakautia ana. Te aroha, te tuku matatahi, te towhare, te pakuha - katoa atu kei a Romeo raua ko Hurieta. Ka kawea ake te whakaari nei e tona whakamaoritanga ki te manawa o Aotearoa"--Publisher information.

Having left the university to write full-time at the end of volume two, Stead throws himself into his work. In novels like Sister Hollywood and My Name Was Judas, criticism in the London Review of Books and the Financial Times, poetry and memoir, Stead establishes his international reputation as novelist, poet and critic. It is also a period when Stead's fearless lucidity on matters literary and political embroil him in argument – from The Bone People to the meaning of the Treaty to the controversy over a London writer's flat.What was it like to be Allen Curnow's designated ‘Critic across the Crescent'; or alternatively to be labelled ‘the Tonya Harding of NZ Lit'? How did poems emerge from time and place, sometimes as naturally as ‘leaves to a tree', sometimes effortfully? And how did novels about individual men and women retell stories of war (World War II, Yugoslavia, Iraq) and peace?Covering Stead's travels from Los Angeles to Liguria, Croatia and Crete to Caracas and Colombia, as New Zealand poet laureate and Kohi swimmer, What You Made of It takes us deep inside the mind and experience of one of our major writers – and all in Stead's famously lucid ‘story-telling' prose.

Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand can be told through totara. Simpson tells that story like nobody else could.

At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her 'mophead'. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day - Sam Hunt plays a role - Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD!Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . .This is an inspirational graphic memoir, full of wry humour, that will appeal to young readers and adults alike. Illustrated with wit and verve by the author - NZ's bestselling Poet Laureate - Mophead tells the true story of a New Zealand woman realising how her difference can make a difference.