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Jordan Hamel, poet of the moment (Photo: Supplied; Design: Archi Banal)
20th May, 2022

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending 20 May

Jordan Hamel joins the phalanx of New Zealand poets who've topped these esteemed charts.
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By The Spinoff Review of Books
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Tin Shui Wai (Photo: K. Y. Cheng/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)
20th May, 2022

The Friday Poem: we miss, by Vaughan Rapatahana

kei te mate o mātou i roto | namamatay kami sa loob | 我們已死心
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By Vaughan Rapatahana
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(Illustrations: Ruby Santos-Jackson; Design: Archi Banal)
20th May, 2022

The day the Queen came to Birkenhead KFC

(Not based on a true story.)
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By Annabel June Barlow and Ruby Santos-Jackson
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(Design and illustration: Toby Morris)
17th May, 2022

The Spinoff Book Report #4: Covid edition

What to read when you feel like pure shite.
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By Catherine Woulfe
Books editor
Janet Charman and her new collection, The Pistils (Image: Supplied / Tina Tiller)
15th May, 2022

Backstory: Janet Charman on the losses we can prevent, and those we cannot

The story of a deeply moving poem.
By Janet Charman
Guest writer
Photo: Nazar Abbas Photography / Getty Images
13th May, 2022

The Friday Poem: Iron throne, submerged, by Mikaela Nyman

Who does the sand belong to anyway?
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By Mikaela Nyman
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Whiti Hereaka with her Acorn and the award’s rarely-sighted sponsor, Jann Medlicott (Photo: Marcel Trompe; Design: Tina Tiller)
13th May, 2022

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 13

We end Ockhams week with lists full of exciting new entrants.
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Whiti Hereaka as Kurangaituku, her muse and main character (Photo: Tabitha Arthur)
11th May, 2022

Yahoo! Whiti Hereaka wins the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction

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By Catherine Woulfe
Books editor
Want $300 to read a book? Same
9th May, 2022

Want $300 to read a book? Same

We read the fine print on a job that sounds, well, amazing.
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By Catherine Woulfe
Books editor
When Harry Met Sally, the carpool scene. Number one on ScreenRant.com’s ‘Top 10 Rom-Com Meet-Cutes’.
6th May, 2022

The Friday Poem: Māui & Prometheus Have a Meet-Cute

it’s not that pottery scene from Ghost / or the sweaty handprint on glass in Titanic
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By essa may ranapiri
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Design: Tina Tiller
6th May, 2022

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending 6 May

Featuring poetry! A guide to Wellington! And also a guide to the whole of the Earth's history!
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The perfect New Zealand tweet doesn’t exi–
6th May, 2022

The perfect New Zealand tweet doesn’t exi–

Our national psyche revealed in <140 devastating characters.
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By Ashleigh Young
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller
5th May, 2022

Give it up for Cadence Chung

In her last year of high school she took on NZQA over its use of a racist poem in an NCEA exam. She also wrote a book of poems.
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By Rebecca Hawkes
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1987, Thorndon: Catherine Robertson, a few months before the abortion (Photo: Supplied)
3rd May, 2022

Thank you for the abortion, Dr Sparrow

The story of my abortion – and the woman who performed it.
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By Catherine Robertson
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Image: Getty Images / Tina Tiller
3rd May, 2022

Greenstick – a short story

A new story by one of the best short fiction writers in the country.
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By Emma Neale
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From left: Te Wairoa Piripi, Hekiera Te Rangai, Huihi 
Pou-Patate, Te Huia Raureti, Mahu Te 
Mona and Te Wharerangi Parekawa all fought in the Waikato War (Photo: James Cowan, c.1914, 
Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/1-017975-g)
2nd May, 2022

Difficult history: How we remember – and forget – the New Zealand Wars

When it comes to traumatic events in our history, whose memory counts?
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By Don Rowe
Contributing writer
(Photo: Rafael Ben-Ari / Photodisc via Getty; Design: Tina Tiller)
1st May, 2022

The Unity Books children’s bestseller chart for the month of April

The books the kids have been begging you for.
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(Photo: Oksana Horiun / iStock via Getty; Design: Tina Tiller)
29th April, 2022

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 29

This might be a record: 14 of the week's top 20 are New Zealand books.
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The Friday Poem: I Wish I Knew Hera Lindsay Bird, by Tim Grgec
29th April, 2022

The Friday Poem: I Wish I Knew Hera Lindsay Bird, by Tim Grgec

On one of the worst characters in the history of television.
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By Tim Grgec
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Human not machine: how autistic writers are writing new space for themselves
26th April, 2022

Human not machine: how autistic writers are writing new space for themselves

We're not machines, ghosts, robots, changelings or aliens – but many of us like the idea of hanging out with them sometimes.
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By Andi C. Buchanan
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