New Zealand Wines 2018

New Zealand Wines 2018

Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide

Michael Cooper

 

Published by Upstart Press on 16 November 2017, RRP $39.99

New Zealand’s most comprehensive wine guide from its most

acclaimed wine writer!

Designed to help the buyer to make informed choices about the best quality wines available, this title is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and ratings, this is a ‘must-have’ publication for the new initiate and the established wine-buff alike.

Divided by grape variety to help selection, this comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, and a dryness/sweetness guide. Other features include Classic Wines: wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages. We have now had over 25 years of Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide.

About the author:

Michael Cooper is New Zealand’s most acclaimed wine writer, with 40 books and several major literary awards to his credit, including the Montana Medal for the supreme work of non-fiction at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for his magnum opus, Wine Atlas of New Zealand.  
In the 2004 New Year Honours, Michael was appointed an ONZM for services to wine writing. Author of the country’s biggest-selling wine book, the annual New Zealand Wines: Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide, now in its 26th edition, he was awarded the Sir George Fistonich Medal in recognition of services to New Zealand wine in 2009. The award is made each year at the country’s largest wine competition, the New Zealand International Wine Show, to a ‘living legend’ of New Zealand wine. The weekly wine columnist for the New Zealand Listener, he is also New Zealand editor of Australia’s Winestate magazine and chairman of its New Zealand tasting panel.
 

Lilian Ida Smith Award 2017 winner announced

 

The New Zealand Society of Authors is delighted to announce the winner of the Lilian Ida Smith Award 2017 - Palmerston North writer Paula Harris

With 87 entries for this award, the selection panel of Lee Murray and Paddy Richardson had a tough time deciding on a winner. Palmerston North poet Paula Harris, will use the award to work on her poetry collection.

Paula Harris says: When I opened the email from New Zealand Society of Authors, I was expecting the usual “blah blah, thanks but no thanks, please try again in the future.” But this one said congratulations.  I may have screamed just a little....  It means so much that the selection panel chose my project, A thousand deliciously ill-advised ways to shorten your life.

Selection panel convener Lee Murray said that 'the range and quality of work submitted was impressive. Entries  included non-fiction (hyperfiction, memoir, essay, and instructional manuals), fiction (literary, young adult, middle grade, picture book, short story collections), poetry, and drama (plays, screenplay). With very few exceptions, the projects were clear and viable'.

The selection panel have also awarded Honourable Mentions to four writing projects. These have been awarded to:

• Colleen Lenihan, for her evocative short story collection, Cherry Blossom Girl and Other Stories, tales from the margins of Japan and New Zealand
• Clare Moleta, for her speculative novel, Children Walking, a climate change dystopia focusing on refugees
• Sarah Myles (McGoff), for her hyperfiction, Towards the Mountain, a family perspective on the aftermath of the Mount Erebus disaster
• Rochelle Savage, for her play, Adam and Eve have a family, a contemporary exploration of non-traditional gender roles in family

Candidates gaining an honourable mention each receive a complimentary one-year NZSA membership. Past recipients of the Lilian Ida Smith award include Sue Orr, Rachael King, Bill Manhire, Lauris Edmond, Owen Marshall, Caroline Barron and Graeme Lay.
 

About the Award
The Lilian Ida Smith Award was initiated when Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher of Wanganui who had a keen interest in the arts, left part of her legacy to the NZ Society of Authors to 'assist people aged 35yrs and over to embark upon or further a literary career'.
The biennial Lilian Ida Smith Award provides the successful applicant with an award of $3,000 to assist them towards completion of a specific project. More about this year's recipient
  

The Roundup with PW

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Off the Shelf

If You Love BIG, LITTLE, LIES, You'll Devour This Book November 28, 2017 By Meagan Harris

 

When an old friend from high school recently reached out to let me know she’d be in town, I jumped at the opportunity to grab drinks with her. We reminisced about our wayward times, favorite teachers, and where our mutual friends all ended up. I can tell you right now I am so happy I went to high school at a time when cell phones didn’t connect to the Internet, selfies weren’t a thing, and gossip wasn’t so easily spread from behind a computer screen. How times have changed. READ MORE

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Gordon Walters: New Vision,

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki have partnered to present Gordon Walters: New Vision, an exhibition of more than 150 artworks by Gordon Walters (1919–1995). 

 

Two years in the making, and with unprecedented access to the private archives of the Walters Estate, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to examine the breadth of more than fifty years of Walters’ practice.

 

A substantial publication, Gordon Walters: New Vision, has been co-published by Auckland Art Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to mark the occasion of this exhibition.

RRP - $79.00

 

This definitive and sumptuous book presents colour plates of works in the exhibition alongside other key works and includes essays by the three curators of the exhibition – Lucy Hammonds (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Julia Waite (Auckland Art Gallery) and Professor Laurence Simmons (University of Auckland) – and six leading New Zealand and international scholars (Deidre Brown, Peter Brunt, Rex Butler, A.D.S. Donaldson, Luke Smythe and Thomas Crow) that reflect upon and reconsider the relationship between Walters’ work and his key sources of inspiration and influences.

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Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980

Strangers Arrive

Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980
Leonard Bell
Auckland University Press
9781869408732
Hardback, 320 pages
RRP: 75.00

 In words and through stunning images, Strangers Arrive introduces us to a talented group of migrants escaping turmoil in Europe in the 1930s through to the 1950s.

None of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938–39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of ‘the refugees’. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . . who knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius.

– Anthony Alpers, 1985

 From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants – refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries – arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country.

 

Ranging across the arts from photographer Irene Koppel to art dealer and printmaker Kees Hos, architect Imric Porsolt to writer Antigone Kefala, Leonard Bell takes us inside New Zealand’s bookstores and coffeehouses, studios and galleries to introduce us to a compelling body of artistic work. He asks key questions. How were migrants received by New Zealanders? How did displacement and settlement in New Zealand transform their work? How did the arrival of European modernists intersect with the burgeoning nationalist movement in the arts in New Zealand?

Strangers Arrive introduces us to a talented group of ‘aliens’ who were critical catalysts for change in New Zealand culture. This is a visually stunning book with many rarely seen images of New Zealand art. An accompanying exhibition will be starting on 10 November at Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland.

Leonard Bell is associate professor of art history at the University of Auckland. His writings on cross-cultural interactions and representations and the work of travelling, migrant and refugee artists and photographers have been published in New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Australia, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is author of Marti Friedlander (Auckland University Press, 2009), Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840–1914 (AUP, 1992) and In Transit: Questions of Home and Belonging in New Zealand Art (2007). He is co-editor of Jewish Lives in New Zealand (2012).

2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Announced

Forty books traversing the cultural, historic, artistic and social landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand have made the longlist for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.

Ten books are longlisted in each of the four awards’ categories – fiction, general non-fiction, illustrated non-fiction and poetry.  Together, they offer riches from both literary luminaries and our rising stars.

New Zealand Book Awards Trust chair Nicola Legat says the Awards received a large number of entries again this year and the standard was extremely high across all categories. “Clearly New Zealand publishing, and indeed our literature, is in excellent health. What to read over summer? Look no further than these 40 fine books."

 

The 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlisted titles are:

Fiction (The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize):

·         The New Animals by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press)

·         The Beat of the Pendulum by Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press)

·         The Earth Cries Out by Bonnie Etherington (Vintage, Penguin Random House)

·         Salt Picnic by Patrick Evans (Victoria University Press)

·         Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson)

·         Heloise by Mandy Hager (Penguin Random House)

·         Iceland by Dominic Hoey (Steele Roberts Aotearoa)

·         Baby by Analeese Jochems (Victoria University Press)

·         Tess by Kirsten McDougall (Victoria University Press)

·         Five Strings by Apirana Taylor (Anahera Press)

 

General Non-Fiction (The Royal Society Te Apārangi Award):

·         Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864-1885 by Michael Belgrave (Auckland University Press)

·         Tāngata Ngāi Tahu: People of Ngāi Tahu edited by Helen Brown and Takerei Norton (Te Rūnanga Ngāi Tahu and Bridget Williams Books)

·         Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand’s Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen (Massey University Press)

·         Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg with Hugh Eldred-Grigg (Otago University Press)

·         The 9^th Floor: Conversations with Five New Zealand Prime Ministers by Guyon Espiner and Tim Watkin (Bridget Williams Books)

·         Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land by Kristyn Harman (Otago University Press)

·         Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond (Auckland University Press)

·         Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir by Tom Scott (Allen & Unwin NZ)

·         Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel (Awa Press)

·         A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington by Redmer Yska (Otago University Press)

 

Illustrated Non-Fiction:

·         New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy edited by James Beattie and Richard Bullen (Canterbury University Press)

·         Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell (Auckland University Press)

·         Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand’s Great War by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press)

·         Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Auckland University Press)

·         Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins (Bridget Williams Books)

·         Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa edited by Athol McCredie (Te Papa Press)

·         Undreamed of ... 50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship by Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (Otago University Press)

·         Tōtara: A Natural and Cultural History by Philip Simpson (Auckland University Press)

·         Gordon Walters: New Vision by Zara Stanhope (commissioning editor), Lucy Hammonds, Laurence Simmons, Julia Waite (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

·         The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula by Jonathan West (Otago University Press)

Poetry:

·         Flow:  Whanganui River Poems by Airini Beautrais (Victoria University Press)

·         Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer (Cold Hub Press)

·         The Internet of Things by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press)

·         The Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard (Otago University Press)

·         Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press)

·         Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner (Victoria University Press)

·         Night Horse by Elizabeth Smither (Auckland University Press)

·         What is Left Behind by Tom Weston (Steele Roberts Aotearoa)

·         Rāwāhi by Briar Wood (Anahera Press)

·         The Yield by Sue Wootton (Otago University Press)

 

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist will be announced on 6 March 2018. The winners (including of the four Best First Book Awards and a Māori Language Award, presented at the judges’ discretion) will be announced at a ceremony on May 15 2018, held as the first public event of the Auckland Writers Festival. 2018 will mark the 50^th anniversary of the first book awards ceremony in New Zealand, presented in 1968 as the Wattie Book Awards.

 To find out more about the longlisted titles go to http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2018-awards/longlist/

The $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2018 will be judged by novelist, poet and academic Anna Smaill, journalist and reviewer Philip Matthews, and award-winning bookseller and reviewer Jenna Todd. They will be joined in deciding the ultimate winner from their shortlist of four by a high-profile international judge.

The Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction will be judged by lecturer in the Māori faculty at the Auckland University of Technology Dr Ella Henry, editor and award-winning journalist Toby Manhire, and former bookseller and publisher Philip King.

The Illustrated Non-Fiction Award will be judged by Professor of History at the University of Otago and winner of the Illustrated Non-Fiction prize in 2017 Barbara Brookes, curator Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa Matariki Williams (Tūhoe, Taranaki, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Whakaue), and director of the public art gallery Objectspace Kim Paton.

The Poetry Award will be judged by poet, novelist and creative non-fiction writer Alison Wong, poet and deputy chief executive, Māori, at Manukau Institute of Technology Robert Sullivan, and Otago poet, publisher, editor and librettist Michael Harlow.