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HOOPLA poets blitz Bestsellers List
Friday, 1 May 2015, 11:29 am | Makaro Press
It’s provocative poetry in vivid packages, our one-year-old HOOPLA series with echoes of the Faber series in design, released in sets of three every April with a late-career, mid-career and first-time published poet from around the country. ... More >>
Nanotech by Denis Wright Launches 25 March
Friday, 20 March 2015, 4:41 pm | Makaro Press
Known for his provocative young adult novel Violence 101 (Penguin), which sold in New Zealand, Australia and the US, Wellington author and teacher Denis Wright is launching a second novel with another unusual narrator facing up to traumatic situations ... More >>
Hoopla 2015
Friday, 6 March 2015, 11:21 am | Makaro Press
Acclaimed trans-Tasman poet Jennifer Compton joins Manawatū’s Bryan Walpert and Dunedin debut poet Carolyn McCurdie in launching HOOPLA 2015, the second in a series begun last year by Wellington’s Mākaro Press. More >>
The Book of Hat goes global
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 1:13 pm | Makaro Press
Two small kiwi publishers have turned indie hit The Book of Hat by Harriet Rowland into an ebook, launching it into the world on what would have been the author's 21st birthday: 26 August. More >>
Wellington teen'sThe Book of Hat runner-up prestigious award
Tuesday, 19 August 2014, 9:58 am | Makaro Press
Teen author’s The Book of Hat makes top three in the $10,000 Ashton Wylie Prize with 96-year-old Sir Lloyd Geering and literary superstar Joy Cowley More >>
Eastbourne Anthologised
Monday, 2 December 2013, 12:26 pm | Makaro Press
Eastbourne is a fresh collection of writing that has sprung from Wellington’s eastern bays. With work by acclaimed New Zealand authors and poets such as Denis Glover, Lloyd Jones, Steve Braunias, Kate de Goldi, and Robin Hyde, the anthology also showcases ... More >>