OUR AUTHORS
RICHARD VON STURMER
Slender Volumes, 2024
Slender Volumes locates the cypress trees of Buddhist folklore in Onehunga and the teachings of the Zen tradition along its foreshore.
Elaborating on kōans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dōgen, each poem fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket.
TERRI TE TAU
Forthcoming, 2025
In Terri Te Tau’s new novel, scientists Tīria, Lydia and Awanui are working to save endemic species and restore the ancient forest Te Tapere-nui-o-Whātonga. When a set of 150-year-old bones are found in a cave close to their innovative hapū-led research centre, the community is intrigued to find out who the skeleton belonged to. DNA tests reveal the impossible, and Tīria attempts to hide the information as she grapples with the mystery of an uncanny whakapapa.
EMMA NG
Forthcoming
Emma Ng’s essay collection dives below the surface of daily life to take a closer look at the the objects we live with. From utes to meal kits to noise-cancelling headphones, Emma reveals the political, cultural and historical dimensions of 21st-century consumerism.
MOHAN DUTTA
Forthcoming
Mohan Dutta draws on decades of work with communities at the social margins to reflect on the practice of solidarity. His first-person accounts of grassroots social change are interwoven with theoretical insights, offering a nuanced picture of the risks we must take and the promises of companionship when we learn to relate well across difference and inequality.