Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu...

Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

Carrie Rudzinski, Grace Iwashita-Taylor

From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam poets,...

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

Margareta Magnusson

The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions. A charming approach to putting your life in order so your loved ones won't have to. There's a word for it in Swedish- D st dning, literally, 'death cleaning'. Swedish-born Margareta Magnusson is, i...