I'm approaching 2026 with the certainty I am right about everything. Farewell ambivalence tbh

Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”

#GoodNews #Biodiversity

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot we’re going to have to learn to live with, all over again. www.nzgeo.com/stories/fort...

Huge thanks to the cover designers, editors, typesetters, reps, booksellers, event teams and reviewers who all play such a vital part in the process of making books happen, and to everyone who has read, bought, borrowed, recommended, and celebrated our books this year.

This is by far the best thing I have read about writing and ai. Also this collection is stunning - I'm quite heartbroken to see it disqualified. Thank you Jiaqiao Liu. 'AI got my poetry collection disqualified from the book awards – here’s my side of the story.' thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-12-...

The Ockhams brings more shame down upon us. Maybe @thwupbooks.bsky.social should withdraw our books? thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-12-...

you don't need to buy store brand Harry Potter, it and every other "magical scooby gang goes to school and has adventures" YA is actually the same "chosen one's real destiny was the friends he made along the way" but with a different cover

So, the administration that wishes we’d just give up trying ALSO hates essays? How very on brand. Head to the comments to co-sign our EIC @kristenmiller.bsky.social’s ✨holiday message✨ to the NEA. We’re not going anywhere. #literarycommunity #essay

Happy birthday, house

Dressing for World Book Day as the river in Barbara Comyns's 'Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead'.

What I read in 2025 (1): Damien Wilkins' Delirious. Like reading King Lear; domestic routines amidst physical, emotional, mental deterioration; the loss of personhood; the effect on survivors; violent gusto of voice in Pete's mother, one word gurgling in Claire, no voice in Wil. Tough read. Genius.

One book of the holy bible

newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a... Good news! All publishers need is enough notice to abide by the rules.

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁 Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

In the belly of Hungus is the Mantis: an amorphous, many-faced being, as fluid and full of history as the moana. Through this elusive entity, Hungus tells stories of addiction that settle like a film on tea, that crawl into the home, that devour us from the inside out. 🎨 Katrina Steak | 📷 Julie Zhu

✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry. teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hun...

Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR #booksky #pukapuka

Enjoyed revealing a little about how the cover for @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip came together for the @christchurchlib.bsky.social blog. Erik’s collection was one of my highlights from @thwupbooks.bsky.social this year.

We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets. More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...

Neighbourhood greenery

Joyce DiDonato ♥️💙💜

it actually rocks to be perceived, and loved anyway!!!! Bec made the fact that I am essentially uncontactable cute. also i'm sick of this world i want to go to the one she has imagined for me www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Non-identical twins 🖤💚

Reprint! @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Flip Grater has nailed it. “This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.” #nzpol

We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption. We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥

Is this completely bonkers it is that just me?

The Samoan-New Zealand typographer behind the beloved Bugonia font

Awesome news.

And now I spy the UK cover, coming in July 26 from Hutchinson Heinemann! www.penguin.co.uk/books/476509...

‘I vote with the hand that holds this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird, the ocean and a raised land shaped by explosion, erosion and willful life.’ Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.

Check out our November news, which includes the announcement of our first five books to be published in 2026! mailchi.mp/wgtn.ac.nz/t...

"Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’." Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!!

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My latest post about the future of distribution, which is typically the forgotten step in the publishing process. #ampublishing #indiepublisher open.substack.com/pub/claretpr...

The @thwupbooks.bsky.social publishing library is filling up

I was expecting this to have happened in Hokkaido, but it was in Myoko, in Niigata Prefecture! Kiwi's arm 'fully snapped' in Japanese bear attack www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

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Deaccesioning books for the move downtown. Lots of double-ups from when we merged our libraries almost 40 years ago

FAFSWAG artist Pati Tyrell's commissioned art work for the cover of Tusiata Avia's new book entitled 'Giving Birth To My Father'. You can also pick up a copy for yourself here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad is a humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience. Selected by Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay Available June 2026. Preorder in bio!

The @thwupbooks.bsky.social staff kitchen has seen some losses

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