Te Herenga Waka University Press

13/08/2024

'Talia Marshall’s writing is a feat of craft and voice and a restless nature that always surprises the reader'
Check out The Spinoff's take on Whaea Blue, and read an extract from the book

A glimpse at one of the most anticipated books of the year.

11/08/2024

'I feel taken aback by the cutting and beautiful edges of her prose.' Hana Pera Aoake reviews Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall for North & South Magazine

“In any story about things that are difficult or tense there has to be humour.”

08/08/2024

Congratulations Tracey Slaughter for your new collection of poetry The girls in the red house are singing, published today! We’re so proud to see these poems out in the world 🙌
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-girls-in-the-red-house-are-singing/

07/08/2024

Kua tae mai te wā! Happy publication day to Whaea Blue, the incredible first book from Talia Marshall - it's out today! 🎉

07/08/2024

'Talia Marshall is one of the best and freshest voices we have.' Louisa Kasza reviews WHAEA BLUE for Newsroom

Louisa Kasza reviews the Talia Marshall experience

05/08/2024

Here's the trailer for the eagerly awaited A MISTAKE which screens for the first time in NZ on Wednesday night as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival

Opening in New Zealand Cinemas October 10A MISTAKE delves into the perilous aftermath of surgeon Elizabeth Taylor's (Elizabeth Banks) split-second medical de...

05/08/2024

'Flawed, self-dramatising, consistently loveable, beset by powerful forces, you can’t not want to spend time with her.' Part one of Noelle McCarthy's interview with Talia Marshall is online now

A tour inside the mind of unique Māori writer Talia Marshall

04/08/2024

Ahead of its publication on Thursday, read an exclusive extract from Talia Marshall's WHAEA BLUE over on Newsroom now

A memoir of love, psychosis and living on the main road of a deadly New Zealand village by the sea

02/08/2024

Our August newsletter features new releases from Talia Marshall and Tracey Slaughter, our National Poetry Day event, and lots more.
https://mailchi.mp/wgtn.ac.nz/thwup-news-august-2024

02/08/2024

'Feltham’s writing is both poetic and precise, evoking the quality of grainy family photographs.' Sara Bucher reviews BAD ARCHIVE for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books.

https://www.nzreviewofbooks.com/bad-archive-by-flora-feltham/

01/08/2024

Out in November, FUTURE JAW-CLAP by sound artist Daniel Beban is the story of the self-made musicians of the Primitive Art Group, who started out as ‘punks of jazz’ and carved out their own radical language in 1980s Wellington.

https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/future-jaw-clap-the-primitive-art-group-and-braille-collective-story/

01/08/2024

We're very sad to say that our wonderful publicist Todd Atticus is leaving us soon (for a dream job in the UK, so trying not to be TOO sad)... We're now looking for a new publicist to join our little team based in Pōneke.

31/07/2024

This is your reminder that the incredible Bad Archive ('a standout of the year' —The Spinoff) is currently the number 1 bestseller at Unity Books Wellington https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/26-07-2024/the-unity-books-bestseller-chart-for-the-week-ending-july-26

31/07/2024

'I walked backwards through my tipuna . . . when I could get to the women.' Talia Marshall on the process of writing her book Whaea Blue, launching next Thursday!

Whaea Blue is guided by whakapapa and takes the reader around Aotearoa.

30/07/2024

'Slim Volume draws you into the intimacy of letting things slip, of layering and leavening . . . try reading this as a poetry handbook and the experience is gold.'
Paula Green reviews the brand new collection by James Brown

Slim Volume, James Brown, Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024 A chair is a good place to sit.You spend a week with a poem. Then another week. Not your poem.Somebody else’s. from ‘L…

29/07/2024

Excited to announce that we’ll be publishing Michelle Rahurahu’s debut novel POORHARA on October 10!

A tragicomedy set in the confines of a 1994 Daihatsu Mira, Poorhara is a journey of epic proportions. It's poignant, expansive and darkly funny.

https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/poorhara/

29/07/2024

'Feltham’s voice – smart, hilarious, curious, and disarmingly wise – is one I’d read on any topic . . . I inhaled this collection and urge you to seek out a copy. It will certainly be a standout of the year.'
Maddie Ballard reviews Bad Archive by Flora Feltham for The Spinoff

There's not a single dud in this dazzling collection of essays, which touches on everything from weaving to seagulls to Meccano enthusiasts.

25/07/2024

'Jake Arthur’s collection retains the tarot deck’s shapeshifting ability, moving seamlessly between worlds, at once playful, sage, and filled with dream-like poetic resonance.'

Dani Yourukova reviews Tarot for Bad Apple https://badapple.gay/2024/07/25/tarot-by-jake-arthur/

23/07/2024

While most debut authors refer to their new books as their babies, Talia Marshall prefers to refer to Whaea Blue as an orphan.

Listen again to Talia's conversation with Maggie Tweedie on RNZ Culture 101.

Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Takihiku) is a gifted writer but a reluctant one. While most debut authors refer to their new books as their babies she prefers to refer to Whaea Blue as an orphan.

22/07/2024

We’re excited to announce The Chthonic Cycle, a collection of essays from Una Cruickshank, publishing on November 7.

Ward off your existential dread with an eccentric and brilliantly curated tour through time, in which fascinating objects glint and spark and the transience of humanity flickers. This is not one to miss!

Cover featuring brand new artwork by Sasha Francis.

https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-chthonic-cycle/

19/07/2024

Bad Archive is officially launched!

And what a launch. Thank you to everyone who came along to support Flora and welcome this wonderful book into the world, it was truly a packed house. Special thanks to Thomasin Sleigh for your beautiful speech and for Unity Books Wellington for hosting us so calmly, even as we drank the bar dry and made you sell out of books.

19/07/2024

Award-winning poet. Performer. Inspiration.

Check out this beautiful video essay from Frank Film about the incomparable Tusiata Avia.

18/07/2024

Bad Archive by Flora Feltham has been flying off the shelves. Join us in store for the launch on Thursday 18 to celebrate with Flora and Te Herenga Waka University Press.

"Bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory.

In this deftly woven work Flora Feltham explores the corners where her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother’s house, a marriage counsellor’s office, the tip and New World. She takes us on a frenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry and meets romance novelists, all while wondering how families and relationships absorb the past, given everything we don’t say about grief, mental illness or even love. Most importantly, she asks, how do you write about a life honestly – when there are so many flaws in the way we record history and, more confrontingly, in the way we remember?

Bad Archive is a lucid, continually surprising, funny and at times bracingly personal essay collection by the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 2021."

16/07/2024

David Coventry talks about writing, painkillers and his new novel Performance with Thomas Pors Koed of Volume bookshop

An interview with David Coventry about his new novel Performance, about writing and illness, and about ME Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS, ADHD, Thomas Bernhard, memory, fiction. Interview by Thomas Pors Koed. Published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, Aotearoa New Zealan