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Landfall editor Lynley Edmeades​, associate professor Peter Simpson​, David Kārena-Holmes​, and Carolyn McCurdie​ from Octagon Poetry Collective. The anthology includes “poems of outrage, essays of research and political outcries”, which were compiled in response to the ongoing activity at the National Library. Earlier this month the library announced it would donate about 600,000 of the books it planned to cull from its overseas collection to the Internet Archive, a digital libr...

Bill Hickman13:07, Jul 28 2021 KEVIN STENT/Stuff Strengthening work continues on Wellington Town Hall. Good afternoon Pōneke, here’s what is happening in the pages of the Dominion and around the city today. 1pm: A day in the life of a Wellington bus driver Transport reporter Joel MacManus spent the day with Mana Coachlines drivers Stephen Hilliard and Eruera Grace. Hilliard spent 25 years of his career as a funeral director, now he starts most mornings with a school run, and it leaves a sm...

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How does the language we speak shape us? Define us? Empower us? Limit us? What kinds of privilege and domination does it possess? Does our own language suppress or marginalise other languages, other voices? The two 2021 University of Canterbury (UC) Ursula ...

‘Cafes must help prevent littering’ );  ); A WOMAN has called on Henley coffee shops to play their part in reducing the amount of litter in the town. Louise Dodd raised her concerns about rubbish in Market Place at a meeting of the town council’s town and community committee. She said the bins overflowed on a regular basis and should be emptied two to three times a day at weekends. Miss Dodd, who lives in Harcourt Close, said: “Are we looking for a contribution from the coffee shops - ...

Novelist and memoirist Charlotte Grimshaw won the reviewer of the year award at the Voyager Media Awards on Friday night for the third time.

THE new Mayor of Henley says she wants the town to flourish under her leadership. Sarah Miller was sworn in at the town’s annual mayor-making ceremony, wh...

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 1:15 pm Shock, anger and grief transformed by creativity and determination in groundbreaking show In a first for Dunedin, a unique Kiwi-Myanmar show is being staged at the Dunedin Town Hall on May 27, co-hosted by Ingrid Leary, MP for Taieri, and Hay Mar, a Myanmar physician at Wakari Hospital. This extraordinary Solidarity Myanmar concert presents a very special mix in response to these extraordinary times. "Myanmar is in deep, dark, violent crisis and the people there ...

Ceremony to mark centenary of Legion );  ); A WREATH will be laid on the steps of Henley town hall tomorrow (Saturday) to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal British Legion. The Henley and Peppard branch of the charity will be recreating the moment when the national body was formed with the ceremony, which will begin at 9am, in line with current coronavirus restrictions. A commemoration service will be held in St Mary’s Church at noon, conducted by Fr Jeremy Tayler, rec...