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Continue reading'Meet Violet Grumble: a twelve-year-old rockstar in the making. Violet’s dream is to compete at BandChamps, the ultimate school music competition. The only problem? Her bandmates don’t know how to play their instruments...'
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Continue reading'This book is a powerful collection of visual and personal responses to the dawn raids, created by leading and emerging Pasif...
Continue reading'We all agreed that powerful poetry provides a platform for urgent dialogue. Just as Manuali’i is a collection of moments of ...
Continue reading'Kersel’s poems are deeply rooted in Pacific family and culture, and she paints these connections with such warmth and precis...
Continue reading'Brief chapters which centre on the alpaca’s point of view balance out the rest of the novel’s hectic pace, and also serve as...
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The author of Three Dogs, Two Murders and a Cat joins chats with RNZ's Jim Mora. ...
Continue readingJacinta Ruru talks to RNZ about bringing together some of Aotearoa's most renowned Māori thinkers in a wide-ranging kōrero ab...
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As part of Kete's Pasifika Books 2025, guest edited by Victor Rodger, we interviewed four Pasifika writers on their writerly ...
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