After Hours Trading & The Flying Squad by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$25.00 NZD

Category: Poetry

As Big as a Father by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$19.99 NZD

Category: Penguin AU 2021 | Reading Level: very good

Finalist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Poetry Section) An outstanding new talent from the South Island, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman has published extensively in the Listener and in a variety of NZ and UK periodicals. This is the third volume of his poetry to be published in New Zeal Finalist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Poetry Section) An outstanding new talent from the South Island, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman has published extensively in the Listener and in a variety of NZ and UK periodicals. This is the third volume of his poetry to be published in New Zealand, taking its title from the Whitireia Poetry Competition winning poem that also appears in Essential New Zealand Poems. ...Show more

Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$40.00 NZD

Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good

In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of In 1895 a meeting took place in the rugged Urewera ranges - Tuhoe country - that would have lasting effects on our views of traditional Maori society. Elsden Best, a self-taught anthropologist and quartermaster on the road past Lake Waikaremoana, was sought out by a leading Tuhoe chief, Tutakangahau of Maungapohatu. The stories he gave to Best to be recorded for future generations are with us today. Best went on to become a noted Pakeha authority on a people he would style as the last of 'the oldtime Maori'. How much did the old man tell him? Was it freely given? Can Best's writings - so pervasive today in our understanding of Maori culture - be truly relied upon? In his unique examination of this historically significant relationship, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poses such searching questions, further informing a vital national debate on the shared identity - and destiny - of Maori and Pakeha. First published March 2010. ...Show more

Dylan Junkie by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

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Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Hoopla Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

From the moment in mid-1965 when the urgent, cheeky, street smart rap of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' burst out of the family radio, Bob Dylan's voice has been embedded in the soundtrack of Jeffrey Paparoa Holman's life. Through thick and thin, elation and desolation, he has followed the American Shake From the moment in mid-1965 when the urgent, cheeky, street smart rap of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' burst out of the family radio, Bob Dylan's voice has been embedded in the soundtrack of Jeffrey Paparoa Holman's life. Through thick and thin, elation and desolation, he has followed the American Shakespeare/Jewish minstrel as far as Dylan's old Iron Range home, a thousand-mile pilgrimage from Iowa City to Hibbing, Minnesota. The poems of Dylan Junkie grasp at the Robert Zimmerman that changed us, enraged us, blessed and mystified us right until the moment when he was awarded, and grudgingly accepted, the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016. A collection that growls with a familiar voice while singing with its own. ...Show more

Fly Boy by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

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Category: Penguin AU 2021

Fly Boy - poems about planes and the people who fly them - celebrates a lifelong fascination with flight.

Now When It Rains by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$34.99 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Jeffrey Paparoa Holman examines a life lived over 70 years through rapid social changes and personal upheavals, from the 1950s to the 2000s, as he stumbles towards becoming the writer he believed he could be. Growing up on the West Coast in the shadow of his father's war and later imprisonment, he drops Jeffrey Paparoa Holman examines a life lived over 70 years through rapid social changes and personal upheavals, from the 1950s to the 2000s, as he stumbles towards becoming the writer he believed he could be. Growing up on the West Coast in the shadow of his father's war and later imprisonment, he drops out of university and learns too much about drugs & alcohol while working as a shearer, bin-man and fisherman. Later in life he learns te reo and publishes groundbreaking history and memoir. This is a vital chronicle of our times; a frank and compelling insight into the writer's mind - and soul. ...Show more

Shaken Down 6.3 by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$19.95 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is an acclaimed poet, historian and teacher. His first major collection, As Big as a Father, was shortlisted in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and his next, The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets, was warmly received by reviewers and readers alike. David Eggleton wrote Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is an acclaimed poet, historian and teacher. His first major collection, As Big as a Father, was shortlisted in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and his next, The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets, was warmly received by reviewers and readers alike. David Eggleton wrote of that volume, 'Holman affirms the working class spirit...his poems are vivid with imagery. This is poetry as local history and vice-versa.' The late Harvey McQueen, clsing Jeffrey's most recent collection, Fly Boy (Steele Roberts, 2010), writes, 'I'm at home again, enriched by Holman's enthusiasm, rapture, questioning, explanation. His volume is an example of why I like poetry and poets who make it'. Jeffrey's most recent work of history is Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau (Penguin 2010). He was recently the 2011 Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato, Hamilton. He lives in Christchurch and is a senior adjunct fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. ...Show more

The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

$24.99 NZD

Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good

From Blackball's short history flows a rich vein of stories about who we are. Jeffrey Paparoa Holman spent his growing years in Blackball where his father was a miner. Back then the bridge was a wooden road across the river to high school, to League games, to the outside world. Now it spans time to reac From Blackball's short history flows a rich vein of stories about who we are. Jeffrey Paparoa Holman spent his growing years in Blackball where his father was a miner. Back then the bridge was a wooden road across the river to high school, to League games, to the outside world. Now it spans time to reach that hoard of stories. "I'm the bridge to the past and the the road still unfolding..." ...Show more