Anahera Press has recently been informed about an interesting opportunity for Māori poets! Call for submissions: The Auckland Latin American Community Inc. (ALAC) plans to publish a book of Māori poetry translated into Spanish. They believe this is the first time a publisher has attempted to bring Māori poetry to the Spanish-speaking world. Māori poets...
Author: Kiri Piahana-Wong (Kiri Piahana-Wong)
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New book announcement
Today at Anahera Press we are delighted to announce that our next publication will be a short story and poetry collection by Serie Barford entitled Entangled Islands. This title will be launching in both print and ebook editions towards the end of this year. Serie is a performance poet of Samoan, Celtic, Scandinavian and Algonquin Indian...
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Ebook announcement
We’re very happy to let our readers know that we now have two of our titles available for download as ebooks in the Amazon Kindle Store: Night Swimming by Kiri Piahana-Wong and The Art of Excavation by Leilani Tamu. Both ebooks are up for sale at a price considerably cheaper than the print list price so if...
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The Short Story Project
To date Anahera Press has focussed exclusively on publishing poetry books, but we are now considering branching out and publishing short story collections as well. To this end, Kiri is undertaking a reading marathon surveying some of the world’s finest short story books – including Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Albert Wendt’s Ancestry, and Tina...
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Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete
Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete from Anahera Press. We are shutting down today and will re-open on the 12th of January. We have a number of exciting new book projects in the works for 2015/16, and will be announcing the first in the new year. Until then, ngā mihi o te Tau Hou ki a...
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Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2014
Today at Anahera we are delighted to have received two nominations in the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2014. Ben Brown has received a nomination in the Fiction category for Between the Kindling and the Blaze, and Kiri Piahana-Wong is nominated in the same category for her debut collection Night Swimming. We wish both...
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New book release
Anahera Press is delighted to announce that we have just produced a limited print run of Jess Holly Bates’ first poetry collection, REAL FAKE WHITE DIRT. Based on a stage show she is taking to London, Edinburgh Fringe, and New York this year, Jess has penned an unsettling commentary on the quality of whiteness and history...
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New book announcement
Anahera Press is very pleased to announce that our next poetry book publication will be The Art of Excavation by Leilani Tamu. This stunning debut collection is, like its author, fierce and political, not to mention tender and perceptive, and we are proud to be its publisher. The book is a vibrant and challenging offering...
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All welcome to the Auckland launch of Ben Brown’s poetry collection
Tēnā koutou katoa, Date: Tuesday 25 February Time: 8pm–11.30pm Venue: The Thirsty Dog, 469 K Rd, Auckland City You are warmly invited to the Auckland launch of Ben Brown’s poetry collection, Between the Kindling and the Blaze: reflections on the concept of mana. Held in conjunction with Poetry Live, with music by Aaron Tokona (AhoriBuzz/Cairo...