Deep South   a quarterly journal by the graduate students of the English Department at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
Trout   a forum for New Zealand and Pacific Island poetry, prose, reviews, interviews and art.
Turbine a literary journal published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters Victoria University of Wellington.
The Pander   a space where thought can be developed and encouraged without having to endure the tyranny of commonsense and outrage. More than eighty articles from the pander print publication have been re-released here on the pander online.
New Zealand Literature Web Directory

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

New Zealand Literature at Auckland University. Bibliography for seventy New Zealand authors listing reviews, work by the author, and articles about the author.

The New Zealand Writer Files on the New Zealand Book Council web site includes author entries reprinted from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, (Ed. Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie), augmented by adding pages for authors not currently featured in the Companion and by updating the Companion entries with details that have appeared since the Companion's cut-off date.

The summer 1997 issue of Manoa from the University of Hawai'i Press, featured New Writing from New Zealand. Guest editors Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan have gathered prose and poetry by eighteen writers including Patricia Grace, Hone Tuwhare, Alan Duff, and Witi Ihimaera.

Two publications from an early Dominion Museum Monograph series. HTML versions hosted by the Knowledge Basket.   The author, Elsdon Best (1856-1931) was an ethnologist with the Dominion Museum for 20 years.
Some Aspects of Maori Myth and Religion
Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori.

NZEPC - New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Smither, Kendrick Smithyman, Robert Sullivan,² Ian Wedde.
Poems Online   links to full-text electronic poems from New Zealand and the Pacific.

Best New Zealand Poems.

Terry Locke: New Zealand Poetry Reviews

"New Zealand wasn't truly discovered until Ursula Bethell ... raised her head to look at the mountains, almost everyone had been blind before."
Mary Ursula Bethell -   October 1935.   Electronic texts

Fleur Adcock the expatriate poet.

James K. Baxter   Baxter in Jerusalem.   He Waiata o Hemi
Jerusalem, Jerusalem a play based on the last year of his life by Mike Riddell.
There are some original Kames K. Baxter manuscripts in the University of Canterbury MacMillan Brown Library. (John Macmillan Brown was the poet's grandfather).
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) started writing what was to become the novel Erewhon while in the Upper Rangitata district, Canterbury Province. Erewhon in html (470k).

Debra Daley The Strange Letter Z.

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff.

Janet Frame   Reviews by Peter Alcock of Janet Frame's The Pocket Mirror, Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, and Judith Panny's I Have What I Gave: the fiction of Janet Frame (at the end of the file).
Janet Frame: The Self as Other/Othering the Self by Tara Hawes.

Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace: The Maori Renaissance

Patricia Grace's Potiki, A Case Study by Miriam Fuchs.

Keri Hulme notes by Hayley Scheck.
Keri Hulme   PBS interview.

Witi Ihimaera   The Escalator   Dinner with the Cannibal

Kapka Kassabova Buddle Findlay Sargeson 1999 Fellow
Two poems in Trout(5) Ciphers   The Sphinx.

Stories by Katherine Mansfield   A Blaze,   Bank Holiday,   Bliss,   Carnation,   The Fly,   Life of Ma Parker,   The Man Without A Temperament,   Miss Brill,   Six Years After,   Sun And Moon
Bliss and other stories   The Garden Party and other stories.   In a German Pension
E-book version, PDA - ready version of The Garden Party.
Poems   A Little Boy's Dream,   A Little Girl's Prayer,   Winter Song.
Katherine Mansfield a biographical entry by Vincent O'Sullivan.
Library of Congress Citations.
The University of Tulsa   McFarlin Library   Katherine Mansfield collection.

The Brain of Katherine Mansfield By Bill Manhire, Drawings by Gregory O'Brien.

Mystery writer Ngaio Marsh     at home.

Frank Sargeson Novelist and Short Story writer.
Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship.

Fiona Kidman

Chad Taylor.

Hone Tuwhare   Rain .

Albert Wendt   Return to Exile: Locating Home.

Gavin Bishop artist and author of Bidibidi, and Little Rabbit and the Sea.

Joy Cowley.

Margaret Mahy pages   Margaret Mahy interview.

The New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards (formerly the AIM Children's Book Awards).

Story Lines   Children's literature foundation of New Zealand.

New Zealand Short Story Writers, Canterbury Public Library.
Modern New Zealand fiction A selective list of New Zealand novelists who have written in the last three decades from the Canterbury Public Library.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

New Zealand Science Fiction Index.

History of Print Culture in New Zealand.( # Oct 2006 )
Print Culture research at Otago.   The Print History Project

Search David Slack's collection of speeches for New Zealand Speeches.

Victoria University graduate and undergraduate creative writing programmes - The International Institute of Modern Letters.

The New Zealand Writers' Website   aims to help poets, playwrights, romance writers, genre writers, short story and article writers, and non-fiction writers.

The New Zealand Freelance Writers’ Association.

Writerfind (NZ) Writers' Resources Pages.

The Origins of New Zealand English.
New Zealand English aspects of English as spoken in New Zealand.
New Zealand Dictionary Centre.

Playmarket Online   information about theatre and play writing in New Zealand.

Rugby songs.

www.ozlit.org Australian Books and Writers.

Travel Books

Must-see New Zealand Thomas Cook Publishing 2000, 192 pp. ISBN 1-841570-45-1 US $14.95.

New Zealand Adventures in Nature by Sally McKinney, 2000 295 pp. ISBN 1-56261-435-5 US$ 18.95

Guía Azul Nueva Zelanda Moisés Martínez Martínez 2000 317pp ISBN 84-8023-334-6

Landmark Visitors Guide New Zealand by Grant Bourne and Sabine Koerner-Bourne, 1999 320 pp. ISBN 1-901522-36-9

Odyssey Guide to New Zealand   Fourth Edition by Elizabeth Booz, and Andrew Hempstead, 2000. 304 pages,  120 color photos,   14 maps   ISBN:9622176720   UK£ 12.95 US $19.95.

Nelles Guide New Zealand   Third Edition by Peter Hinze, Ainslie Talbot, Marc Marger, Maureen Te Rangi Rere/Waho Waaka, John Berry, Pat Hanning, Craig Potton, Peter Birkenmaier, and Peter Linden, 1998.   254 pages,  128 color photos,   21 maps   ISBN 3-88618-905-8   UK£ 8.95 US $14.95 AUS $A 21.95.

The Rough Guide to New Zealand, Fifth Edition by Laura Harper, Tony Mudd and Paul Whitfield, September 2006.   An account of the country's wild landscapes, from Ninety Mile Beach to the fiords of the deep south, practical guidance on the major walks, including the Milford, Routeburn, Heaphy and Abel Tasman tracks. There is coverage of Maori culture as well as the lowdown on where to eat, drink and sleep in every region.   1061 pages & 100 maps   ISBN: 184353679X   U.S. $24.99 / CAN $34.99 / U.K. £15.99.

Lonely Planet New Zealand   13th edition
by Carolyn Bain, George Dunford et al September, 2006. ISBN: 1741045355   728 pages 128 maps   A$39.95 - US$25.99 - UK£16.99
Destination New Zealand.

Moon Publications New Zealand Handbook 6th Edition, by Jane King and Andrew Hempstead.
540 pages, 81 maps ISBN: 1-56691-556-2 US $19.95
A large portion of this book has been made available by WebTravel illustrated with photographs by Philip Greenspun.

Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides by Jonathan, Simon and Paul Kennett, Sixth Edition 2005.
ISBN 0-9582673-0-8 Published and distributed by Kennett Bro

A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand NZ$ 15.00.

Bookstores and Publishers

Auckland University Press.

Awa Press for the best of contemporary non-fiction.

Books Pasifika Specialists in Pacific Islands, Maori & New Zealand literature.

Canterbury University Press.

The Caxton Press.

Clearwater Tarn books, maps and guides.

Dymocks Booksellers.

Exisle Publishing read book excerpts, contact authors, find out about the latest projects, order titles.

The Hazard Press publishes books on general non-fiction, biography, humour, cookery, fiction, poetry and art.

Kakapo Books Studies in New Zealand Culture.

Manaaki Whenua Press online bookstore for New Zealand natural history and science books.

Natureandco.co.nz   books about nature in New Zealand.

New House Publishers for educational books and resources by New Zealand authors.

Reed books   over ninety years of New Zealand publishing.

Vicbooks.

Victoria University Press.

The Wai-te-ata Press publishes limited-edition works by New Zealand writers and music scores using hand-set lead and wooden type on printing machinery dating back to 1813.

Vol 1 Bookshop - serving the new and secondhand textbook needs of Auckland University students and staff.

Gordon and Gotch.

OC Books, Dunedin, specialists in New Zealand Christian Titles. Book reviews

The Arts Centre Bookshop Chrischurch with a focus on all things Indigenous to New Zealand.

Smith's Bookshop New Zealand Book Specialists, in business in Christchurch for more than a century.
NZine interview with Ross Humphries, manager.

South Sea Books Used Book Catalogue from Christchurch.

New Zealand maps for sale - Terralink Map Shop.

Titles Bookshop   Aongatete.

Word Pictures   Audio Books.

Kauai Fine Arts - Antique Maps and Prints of New Zealand.

AddALL   a free service that searches for the best deal in books anywhere on-line.

Libraries

The Hocken Library was established in 1910 when Dr Thomas Morland Hocken gave his private collection to the University of Otago, in trust for the people of New Zealand. The collection now includes the latest in popular music recordings as well as one of the largest and finest collections of early and contemporary New Zealand art.

South Seas Bulletin Board for Libraries an information service for the New Zealand Library and Information Services (LIS) community, maintained by Alastair Smith.
Te Ropu Whakahau Maori in Libraries and Information Management.
Online Catalogues and Home Pages of NZ Libraries
The PSA library specialises in books on the trade union movement in New Zealand and overseas, including a range of union journals and a collection of employment contracts.
North Shore Libraries Nga Whare Matauranga o Te Raki Pae Whenua
H.B. Williams Memorial Library, Gisbourne.
Wellington City Libraries.
Tasman District Libraries.
Christchurch City Libraries.
Dunedin Public Libraries.

Carnegie Libraries in New Zealand.
Accessible to all :  Libraries in the Auckland Provincial Area 1842-1919   Glenda Northey.

Papers Past 19th century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals, digital images from 20 publications.

Newspapers from New Zealand held by the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL 60637.